Arm triangle choke (Arm triangle) is a generic term describing blood chokeholds in which the opponent is strangled in between his or her own shoulder and the performer's arm. This is as opposed to the regular triangle choke, which denotes a chokehold using the legs, albeit with a similar mechanism of strangulation against the opponent's own shoulder. An arm triangle choke where the performer is on the side of the opponent and presses a forearm into opposite side of the neck of the opponent is called a side choke, such as from the kata-gatame hold.

An anaconda choke is an arm triangle from the front headlock position. The man on top threads his arm under the opponent's neck and through the armpit, and grasps his biceps. The performer then attempts to pin the bottom man onto the trapped shoulder so as to better interrupt the flow of blood, all the while applying pressure with the grasped biceps.

He may accomplish this by rolling the man over the untrapped shoulder, (known as a gator roll) and use the momentum to turn the man onto his trapped shoulder. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira was the first one to use it in MMA, although he and his twin brother learned this submission from Luis "Buscape" Firmino. It has also been used on Ultimate Fighter:Heavyweights for a tapout by Justin Wren.

The D'Arce choke is similar to the Anaconda choke. The difference being that the choking arm is thread under the near arm, in front of the opponent's neck, and on top of the far arm. The choke gets its name from Joe D'Arce, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Renzo Gracie.

Though not the inventor of the choke, D'Arce performed this choke often and with great success in many Jiu Jitsu and submission grappling tournaments. Another name for this choke is the Brabo choke.

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