Thursday (03/27) No-Gi Class Guilotine Submissions

In a previous class I covered using the modified guillotine to get a little more submission bang for your squeeze buck. (See what I did there?) Anyway, I have noticed that there are quite a few of you out there that are still afraid to throw the guillotine on and work for the submission. So, here is a little update for you. I've got arm in, arm out, half guard, full guard, and a special bonus technique qued  up and ready to go.

Lets start with your basic arm in and arm out goose neck guillotines as shown by Eric Schaffer. It's a bit of a long video but it's fantastic with the detail. You will notice that this guillotine is a little bit of a departure from the old school guillotine in that your are not driving the forearm under the head all the way to ensure that you can get your squeeze as tight as possible. Instead, he is cupping the chin and turning the head towards his body. Also when he goes for his finish he is really hipping out to the side in his half guard. This is going to be very important for those trying to finish the guillotine with the arm in or while your opponent is reaching high over the shoulder to defend.  

Now that we have the finer points of the set up and finish down lets take a look at a little different set up with Marcello Garcia. The guillotine starts right at the 1:40 mark, don't worry about the sweep in the beginning (but extra credit for anyone that can pull this off tonight).

The same concepts he shows from the butterfly can be applied to the full guard guillotine. The main points I took away from this set up were ensuring that you get your opponent down by the hips breaking the posture and then slipping the hand under the chin. I also love the tip about raising the elbow to ensure that he doesn't force your back down and block the guillotine. 

As always there are a few keys you can use to make your guillotine a much higher percentage move: 

1. Break your opponents posture-whether through a shot, pulling them into closed guard, or using your butter fly hooks. Your opponent should be positioned below your waist with your hips giving you a pivot point.
2. Secure the chin-turn the chin towards your rib cage to exposing the broad side of the neck for you to attack.
3. Crunch in-make sure that you crunch in instead of pulling straight back to secure your finish.

Bonus: We may not have time for this one tonight but what the hell lets take a look anywho. A little variation on the guillotine, a guillotine to sweep to mount. Be sure to watch a couple of times because I know I was distracted by Ricardo Almeda's New Yorker/Brazilian accent the first few times I heard it. Not to mention that he goes through the technique very quickly.

  

Be sure that you first get the iron hook on one arm and control the head. Second you need to make the kick out to get the angle for the sweep. Finally roll back and elevate your hook to finish the sweep. I'm not going to worry about covering the mounted guillotine now, I'll be happy to see some of you guys rip these off to get sweep and mount points.

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