July 18th, 2009 by jgatienza

A review of what we were taught.

fighting for the clinch (drill, this was a warm-up)

Scenario: your opponent grabs your neck

• protect your face and have your hands in front of your face and bob and weave, you must protect your face so you don’t get kneed

Scenario: if your opponent is tight on your body with his hands around your neck

• place your hands on his chest, step back and push off and bob and weave under his arms

Scenario: while fighting for the clinch

• take your right hand and go over his arms
• lock your hands together
• place your right leg by his right leg and trip him

Scenario: your opponent is much larger than you and has his hands around your neck

• you are in your opponents clinch
• turn your body slightly to the left to drive your right hand up and around his head
• left hand by the tricep
• right leg step inward and place in front of his right leg, left leg circles to the front of your opponents left leg
• bend forward to complete the throw

OR and alternative is to…

• pop his elbows up
• drop down a little
• drive your face in his chest
• hands lock behind his back and suck him in and bend him backwards

Scenario: your opponent has you against the wall and is choking you

• with both hands reach straight back to his fingers
• feel for the weak finger (depending on what side) and grab it
• right hand goes to your opponents right wrist and break his finger

Arm in guillotine
Scenario: your opponent is on all fours with your chest applying pressure above the back of his shoulders/head

• slide your right hand under his chin or grab his gi collar
• with your left hand push his right arm inward and grab behind above the elbow with your right hand
• lock your hands together to prevent his trapped arm from escaping
• slide your right knee to block it Note: if you can’t slide your knee in, lift up his upper body to get your right knee in
• roll over your right leg and wrap your legs around him and extend your body for the submission

Or if your opponent tucks his arm in to prevent the arm in guillotine go for the normal guillotine

Guillotine
Scenario: your opponent is on all fours with your chest applying pressure above the back of his shoulders/head

• slide your right hand under his chin or grab his gi collar
• lock your hands together
• slide your right knee to block it. Note: if you can’t slide your knee in, lift up his upper body to get your right knee in
• roll over your right leg and wrap your legs around him and extend your body for the submission

To be able to pull this off you need to set your opponent up. If he pulls back or defends his neck go for the arm in guillotine. If he pushes in go for the normal guillotine. Take what your opponent gives you.

North south body triangle
Scenario: your opponent has you in his side control from your right side. His left arm must be on the left side of your head.

• take your left hand and grab behind your left knee (grab the gi material)
• get a underhook with your right hand and work to a north south position
• scootch your body down. Note: scootching your body down allows you to be able to lock your opponent down easier
• with your left hand release your grip on your knee and grab your right bicep, your right hand grabs his belt
• squeeze your arms and body together and raise your hips for a choke

From the back arm bar
Scenario: you have your opponent’s back and you have your grips on his right arm

• with your left arm place it behind you and move your hips to the right, you might have to do this a couple of times
• make a frame across his face with your left arm
• embrace his right arm with both of your arms
• as he is trying to pull away throw your left leg over his face  and squeeze the knees  and raise the hips for the armbar

Or you can choke him with your gi with the help of your knee
Scenario: you have your opponent’s back, he is defending his neck. His left arm is over his right arm

• pull your gi out
• with your left hand feed the end of your gi to your right hand
• place your left hand behind you and move your hips to the left lowering your opponents head
• work your knee under your right arm and between your chest and your opponents head
• grab the gi material on his knee
• drive your knee into his face and pull your gi for the submission

Monson choke
Scenario: you are in the north south position, you on top

• take your right hand and slide it under his neck
• take your left hand and slide it under his left arm (starting from under the pit area and finish by his head)
• lock your hands together and drop your right armpit under his chin and squeeze

Questions that were asked
Q: What can I do when someone is defending with an open guard (holding on to both sleeves and feet on their hips).
A: Sit back try and work your knees between his legs, alternative is to try and do a toriano pass

Q: How do I defend an underhook from half guard
A: Place your left hand on his shoulders and the right hand on his hips and try and push away

Q: After I get my opponent off me while I’m in his side control using the underhook, I get caught in the turtle position what can I do to prevent that?
A: First, Royler said that I don’t need to bump if I already have the under hook all I have to do is keep (shrimping) moving my hips around and then get to your knees and roll back over your leg and pull your opponent into my guard

This is all that I remember from the seminar if anyone remembers any details that I might have missed or I might have explained something incorrectly please leave a comment.

arm bar, choke, clinch, gi choke, guillotine, take down, under hooks

April 7th, 2009 by jgatienza

Guillotine escapes
Scenario: you shoot in for a take down and your opponent applies a guillotine on you

• with your left hand protect your neck and pull down on his wrist
• your right hand goes over his shoulder reaching for his back
• when he tries to straighten up skip/jump to the left side of your opponent (you will end up in a variation of a Gracie T)
• your right leg will end up behind his left leg, make him fall backwards
• with your left hand pull his hand off of your neck and go into side control
  

Scenario: your opponent pulls you into his guard while you are in his guillotine

• first off you must protect neck with your left hand
• get up on your toes and stack him
• with your right hand reach across his throat and grab his collar and try to choke him while driving your right elbow to the mat
  

Scenario: your opponent pulls you into his guard while you are in his guillotine

• first off you mus protect neck with your left hand
• get up on your toes and stack him
• take your right hand and get it under his head and grab his gi, your forearm should be under his neck
• drive your right shoulder to his chin, like you are trying to touch your shoulder to your fist

Scenario: you can’t finish the guillotine from the bottom because he’s doing a good job defending

• if you are having a hard time submitting your opponent with the guillotine go for the sweep
• release your grip, bring your left hand over his back, your right hand goes under his left arm
  lock your hands together
• break your guard, take your right foot and place it under his left leg, take your left leg and block/wrap it over his right knee
• create momentum and throw your head back slightly to start the sweep and finish in mount

*Note: you have about 3-4 seconds to survive and escape.
Try to get your traps up as close to your ears as possible to protect your neck.
You must protect your neck, you may be in this position for a minute or longer, your opponent will tire out eventually.

escapes, guillotine, sweep

March 20th, 2009 by jgatienza

Standing guillotine:

• with your right hand grab your opponents collar, make sure your fist is pressing into his collar bone, your left hand is holding on to the gi material on his right elbow
• step with your right foot in a circular motion while pulling your opponent down
• loop your right arm over his head and drop your weight on him, place the blade of your right arm under his throat
• take your left hand and cradle your right hand
• step into him and extend your back for the finish

 Cross guillotine:

• use the same steps as the standing guillotine with the exception that your opponent is defending and pulling on your right hand
• slide your left hand thru following your right hand over his throat
• you can grab your bicep or the gi material with your left hand and you can place your right hand over his left shoulder or grab the sides of his lats for the finish 

Half guard guillotine:

• your opponent takes you down with a single leg (on your right leg)
• roll over on your left leg and wrap it around his right leg for the half guard, if you can wrap it around his waist and go for the full guard, even better.
• from the half guard the submission is more of a neck crank, twist your body

guillotine

February 6th, 2009 by jgatienza

kimura, hip over sweep, guillotine

guillotine, kimura, sweep

July 10th, 2008 by jgatienza

Continuing my training at Leadingedgemma.com, we warmed up with some stretches, touching our hands to the ground and walking as far in front as we can and then walked towards them with our feet and another excercise that I liked was one foot forward stretching the glutes and then backwards stretching the same leg.

Guillotine: from the stand up, your right hand should be behind your opponents neck, pull down hard and drive his head to your left side and form a noose with your left arm around his neck, the blade of your left arm should be on his throat. Place your right hand under your left hand and  pull up and walk into your opponent, or you can twist to your right.

Tips I was given: use your head to help control your opponent, press up against the side of his head make it feel uncomfortable.

guillotine