Alias · Front Headlock
Ezekiel choke
Also known as Ezekiel Choke (No-Gi) — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: Standard term
Full name — ezekiel strangle
Ezekiel choke is the full name for the ezekiel — the front-headlock-derived strangle named for the BJJ practitioner Ezequiel Paraguassú whose 1980s competitive use attached the name to the technique.
Etymology. “Ezekiel” is the anglicised rendering of the Portuguese “Ezequiel” — the BJJ-vocabulary Portuguese-rendered-Japanese label for the technique. “Choke” attaches the submission category. The full name is the standard published form; “ezekiel” alone is the common shortened form.
Mechanics. The choke requires bilateral compression — the forearm crossing one carotid, the biceps closing the other side via the closed-arm loop. In no-gi, the closure relies on the attacker’s biceps rather than a sleeve-grip anchor.
Cross-reference. “Sleeve choke” is the historical gi-context name; “arm-in choke (no-gi)” is the no-gi-context descriptive label. Full mechanical coverage on Ezekiel (No-Gi).