Response to the Thai clinch, aka double neck tie

[Pipefighter]

I was having a problem with a particular sparring partner who had impressive skill and strength in tying me up in his Thai clinch. No matter my counter, it fed in to his response. I asked my teacher if he had a good response for that. He told me to use the headlock immediately. It worked very well. So far I have had only success using the headlock in response to the Thai clinch and haven't seen a counter response to the headlock at that moment.
I'm wondering if anybody knows a good counter for when you have applied the clinch, and then are caught with one arm inside the basket of a headlock?

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[Pipefighter]

Cool video. I wish i had one to illustrate what my response is, but i don't have video of anything.
In my situation i had used basically every one of those responses, but my training partner was more experienced with MT clinching, and stronger. I initially did the break to a drag by, he of course countered with a drag by and we were back to square one. I broke and did a russian, he rose up and pushed my head down into a front choke. I countered with a MT clinch, then so did he, then so did I untill i was tired and stopped. I tried the snap down, pull, twist method ala JKD/Burmese style, he didnt budge. I simply broke the clinch, but we were back to square one. So after a few days of that my Teacher told me to use the Shuai Chiao headlock immediately. That put an end to MT clinching. Since then i find that when my opponent has full sized gloves on the headlock works even better since he cant get his arm out at all.

I'm wondering, if someone countered your Thai clinch with a headlock, what would your response be from there

[Kellen Bassette]

I'm wondering, if someone countered your Thai clinch with a headlock, what would your response be from there

I think I'll work this when training Thai clinch this week to see how I like it.