Alias · Top Positions
Shoulder choke position
Also known as Kata Gatame — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: colloquial
Informal — the shoulder-choke control
Shoulder choke position is a colloquial name for kata gatame — “shoulder choke” being the everyday name for the arm triangle the position sets up.
Etymology. “Shoulder choke” names the strangle by the shoulder that drives one side of the compression; “position” frames the control. The label is informal, common where “kata gatame” or “arm triangle” sound technical.
Mechanics. The arm triangle is an arm-in strangle, where the opponent’s own arm fills one side of the neck; because the arm is inside rather than out of the way, the attacker must compensate by driving the shoulder and closing the space to make both sides compress, since the trapped arm alone does not finish it.
Cross-reference. “Arm triangle setup position” and “Over-under side control” are sibling aliases. Full mechanical coverage on Kata Gatame.