I don’t have a lot of videos of me competing and rolling because I was never interested in collecting it much. But, I do have some and I decided to go through them and use them as a tool to review how I do certain things.
In these videos, I will review how I use the guillotine.

It’s not just a submission for me, but a method of control, a way to sweep, takedown, and pass guard and even occasionally as a way to escape positions.

An important concept is not just the power of the guillotine/front headlock but also how the threat of it opens up so many other options for me (most obviously allowing me acmes to the body or forcing an opponent to pin themselves or abandon passes.

I haven’t done this before so the narration isn’t as in-depth as some might like but still I hope it helps.

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I am working on a series of new Videos called “Mastering the Basics”
It will be broken into several different instructionals.
My focus will be on going into a lot of detail to make these fundamentals really work for you without having to use a lot of athleticism.
The ones I am working on are:
* Submissions
* Sweeps
* Takeodowns
* Submission Defense
* Positional Escapes

Here is a teaser technique from the takedown DVD.
Obviously, I will cover this in greater detail and connect it to other takedowns but it’s just a preview.

In my opinion, these are the most important techniques for a White Belt in BJJ to know.
Every instructor has their priorities but for me, beginners in BJJ should focus the majority of their training on dealing with real world attacks and not on defeating other BJJ player’s attacks.

My thoughts on this common topic

“When i was a blue belt, i asked Royce how to escape the triangle. He said don’t get triangled. Just like the meme says. Pissed me off. Then many years later i realized he was right.

Greg and Spenser taught the stack pass all the time. We learned it and practiced it, but i was always looking for a different answer. Then the seminar that i got my brown belt Royce taught the stack pass. Challenged anyone in the room to triangle him.

That was the day i decided that i had to get good at it!”
– Black Belt Jake Whitfield
(http://graciegoldsboro.com)

I’m not saying not to learn advanced techniques or don’t prepare for contingencies (“what if”s).

But, if you master solid foundations and basic principles then that solves most of the problems you’ll encounter.

A good example is in last night’s class, I told my students that if they keep their hands up and elbows in then that will solves 90% of your problems.

You don’t have to learn how to defend all the headlock variations if your hands are already in a position to intercept the headlock attempt.

Often when you go for a Triangle the person will stack you and turn the corner and you can often lose the triangle.
Here’s an option on how to recover it.

This is the fight I’ve discussed in my other video about protecting your groin when going for front headlocks/guillotines

Recently, various people sent me a video of a fight in what looked like military barracks.

In the video, one of the guys gets a guillotine and goes to the ground with it. in the ensuing grapple, the person getting guillotined manages to grab hold of the other person’s groin and begins to squeeze.

The person immediately lets go of the choke and begins to beg for mercy.

In this video, we discuss why this is a bad example of not adjusting your BJJ for real world scenarios and what are some steps the Guillotine should have done.

Recently, BJJScout posted a video of a person getting submitted by a forearm choke in an MMA fight (picture in the thumbnail).

They asked if this was a dirty move in training. To be specific, the move is simply where someone who is mounted on you presses down on your neck with their forearm.

What is mind-boggling to me is that anyone in BJJ would think this was a dirty move and wouldn’t allow it in training. There are of course moves I don’t allow during rolling but I still teach how to defend those moves.
Because it would be irresponsible for me not to. But, I’ve met a lot of students who didn’t learn how because their coach just said “don’t do that because it’s dirty.”

I find this instinct amazing for a few reasons:

* First, and foremost, this is absolutely one of the most common attacks an untrained person will do to you. And, if you’re not training how to defend it then you’re basically unprepared to deal with a common real-world attack.
So, if you are not training to defend this, then you really are unprepared for real self defense. This is what I mean when when I say BJJ schools are teaching people how to defend BJJ but not to defend against the real world.
But, this might be why I submit a lot of bjj people (who know how to defend all kinds of esoteric BJJ techniques) with this choke.

* It’s amazing and embarrassing that this guy didn’t know this very basic defense. It’s actually taught in the original Rorion & Royce tapes that many BJJ people say is too basic and outdated. And, yet, I’ve met very few BJJ people who know it.
A lot of much more dangerous techniques are allowed at many academies and are not considered dick moves. A forearm choke is certainly far less dangerous than an inverted heel hook.

* Many BJJ practitioners and schools portray themselves as Spartan/Gorilla/Viking/Sharks but having to deal with someone pressing their arm on your neck is a step too far?

So, here I show how to defend this submission. Again, I’m not teaching an escape (obviously an Upa is an option here). I’m teaching the Defense. First, you have to learn how to defend a move for when you can’t immediately escape.

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As my friend, Seth Shamp, says “you don’t pass a guard, you untangle it.”
Here, I show a basic method of dealing with the lasso hook.

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I tell my students all the time that your goal is to get to certain positions (I call them “Staging Areas” where you are as safe as possible while knowing all your options.

The goal in self defense is to avoid damage and get to these positions

The modified seatbelt is one such option with numerous takedown opportunities. Here, I transition from the seatbelt to another position which I consider very useful for military or police.

I also cover a couple simple takedowns from this position.

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One of the most difficult attacks to escape is the Rear Naked Choke. On the ground it’s hard but you have the ground to assist you.

Standing, it is much more difficult to accomplish because you don’t have this base and extra tool to help you.

And, you don’t have time for fantasy moves like groin punches or eye strikes or finger bends in a vain attempt to get him to let go.

After the angle change, I keep referring to being in the choke but what I mean is I am still in the hold – the choke itself is no longer a threat

First, sorry about the audio – I have no idea what happened.

I cover the three aspects of this match between two of my favourite fighters: striking, clinch work/takedowns, and groundwork and how their strategies played out.

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