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• Guillotine from the Closed Guard
  Marcelo Garcia – Guillotine from the Closed Guard http://youtu.be/DLrXGWLtOoU The master of the guillotine himself giving some great details on his bread and butter guillotine from the closed guard. Of note here are the deep bite he takes on the initial motion- the choking arm is as far down his partners back as possible, which not only ...
• Defending a Roundhouse Kick
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Dto7pJFPg&sns=em Making it a timely move of the week this go-round! Ronda Rousey was eventually felled by a roundhouse kick and follow-up punches courtesy of Holly Holm this weekend, a fact you all know by now if you have had an even passing acquaintance with the internet in the past couple of days. And while I ...
• Guillotine From The Crucifix
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpzHlct4wj4 The two keys I see here on this nifty guillotine are the ways that Jason never lets the space between him and his partner get larger than it absolutely needs too. One of the cardinal rules in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is, if on offense, you are looking to decrease the space between you and your ...
• Guillotine Setup from the Back
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gf6WaMe8oE&feature=youtu.be Guillotine Setup from the Back demonstrated by Baret Yoshida of The Arena So here we have an entry from the back that works to hide other sorts of submissions. You can do the rear naked choke, you can hide going for an arm bar, and also it’s like you’re giving an escape route, and they’re escaping ...
• Top Half Guard Americana Sequence
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKBxi7kKJgk&feature=youtu.be The genius of this quick sequence from lightweight wizard Caio Terra is that it turns a potentially risky transition, going for the top half guard americana into and almost pick your poison chain of counter and re counter by involving the gi. You never take your hips off your partner, and you maintain control throughout ...
• Arm Drag + Attacks
  https://youtu.be/SCAMzOtbe4E A little West Coast BJJ Action comes to us from the venerable Kurt Osiander. Notice the little details – he stays super close on the arm drag, not trying to bring his partner to him as much as he flattens them out with the far foot…and then scoots TO him. This is crucial. It stops ...
• Mount Attack into Arm Bar
    A very nice demonstration by black belt Mike Wacker of Black Hole Jiu Jitsu of a mount attack into arm bar. Give it a try on your next roll.