One of my American students (and one of the few people I’ve promoted to Purple Belt), Isaiah Monroe, fought recently on the UFC FightPass CFFC Show.

He uses the Arm-In Guillotine to control the fight and get it to where he can finish the fight.

I will soon cover my breakdown on his use of it soon (Isaiah was one of my assistants in my Guillotine Code DVD).

Isaiah also very kindly gives me a shoutout in his post fight interview.

If you want to know what it’s like to train with me, I have a Patreon now where I post videos from my classes so you can virtually join me on the mats.

Hey, guys.

Here’s an opportunity to get on the mats and learn from me.

I’ve had former students – as well as people who’ve never trained with me –
tell me they wish they could come to my classes.

So, I decided to do something I’ve been thinking about for a long time – creating a Patreon account where I can host videos of my classes.

For only $10 you’ll get access to all my class lessons and, if you enjoy my concept-focused and detailed style of teaching, I think you’ll get a lot of it.

Each week, I will add a minimum of 3 videos (though likely quite a few more). I will post some older videos I’ve had waiting but it will be primarily new class videos.

I will also post videos on special subjects, blogs and vlogs.

I really hope if you enjoy my teaching then you’ll come join my class.

I will still post Videos on here when I can (I’ve got a new camera so that should happen more often).

And, I am still working on my new DVDs and hopefully will have those starting to be released soon.

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It’s important to understand the pros and cons of every position and how they apply in different formats.
I was asked to discuss my thoughts on 3/4 mount – a position I actually use quite a bit. And, I discuss why here

This is a great option for when you are going for the Omplata and can’t break your opponent down from their knees.

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This is one of my favourite attacks when someone attempts to recompose guard.

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We’ve covered early and middle timeline back escapes in our last two videos.

Now, Erkan and I cover a late escape when they’ve locked their seatbelt and pulled you to the choke side.

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This is the continuation of our Escaping the Back Series. we previoucly covered our Early escape and now we move deeper into the timeline (Middle).

Our general mechanics remain the same: Disconnect his main two connection points by using the ground to scrape him off and then we explore options from there.

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Erkan and I will be doing videos on various techniques and topics while people are not able to train at their schools.

I made a request for topics that people wanted me to cover and one of the top ones was escaping back control.

I’m a big believer in learning a timeline of events rather than isolated events so we shot a series of back escapes.
In this video, we are covering an early escape.

It’s important to focus as much as possible on early escapes rather than worst case scenarios (which we will cover) because if you only learn late escapes you tend to not address the danger until it is late in the timeline.

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Recently, I did a seminar at Evolve Combat Academy in the UK and part of the seminar focused on my Knee Ride Control and how I use different knee mounts on all parts of the body to control and fatigue my opponent as well as open attack opportunities.

Jerry Ñyos who used to train with me at Ft. Bragg wrote me after he saw pictures from the seminar and told me that he based a lot of his Knee Ride game on what I taught, especially a double knee ride position I call the “Preacher.”

I asked him to show some of the things he likes to do and he shot a quick video on how he uses the lapel mixed with the Knee Rides.

I also included some quick clips of a little part of my Knee Ride Flow on top. I will be eventually shooting a full DVD on my whole Knee Ride game so keep an eye out for that.

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I recently asked some of my followers some topics they’d like me to discuss.
This was one of them.
I have more videos on the way but if you have a topic you’d like me to explore, please let me know.

(From a seminar I did 5 years ago)
These are a few central concepts of my Jiu-Jitsu Top Game:
1. Always try to put myself in territories that are familiar to me where I understand all the options (I call these “Staging Areas).
2. Make sure those Territories are also environments in which my opponent’s mistakes are inevitable.
3. Control my opponent’s priorities.
4. Use Extreme Pressure and Control to limit, slow, ride or direct my opponents movements. Always keep his movements predictable to me.
5. Make my opponent ALWAYS carry my weight.
6. Make sure his body is never in alignment.
7. Use pain, pressure, or inability to breathe to force him to make a choice (making sure his only options are bad ones).
One thing I try to do is always get to positions where I more and more limit the variables. This is why I don’t focus on just jumping around and going to as many positions as possible. It can be boring to roll with me because when I get to these positions my opponent has just a few options and if he does escape, I return him to these same control areas as soon as possible.
Here is sort of a variation of one I use a lot. I have a heavy shoulder of justice from side control. If my opponent stays there, I can either mount but more often I will just increase the pressure. If he turns in I go to reverse Kesa with the guillotine hold.
Again, I force him to carry my weight.
If he stays here, I can continue to make the pressure worse and worse.
I can also step to mount and finish the submission or continue the pressure.
If he goes back to his back, I go back to a heavy cross face and it starts all over.
If he tries to come on to top from his side, he’s walking into the full guillotine.
Many will still try to come on top even if they know the guillotine is waiting because I am able to put so much pressure on them when they’re on their side.
This is one of my top attack sequences and one I return to over and over when rolling.
I’m not showing my side control here but some details on the guillotine hold I use when my opponent turns on his side.
That is Decision 1: Deal with the pressure or turn on his side and into the guillotine hold. ( I have another flow if they try to roll away.)
Decision 2: Stay there and deal with the pressure or 1. Go back to being pinned, or 2. Allow me to mount, or 3. Come on top into the guard guillotine.
This is a flow I return to constantly!
Notice the choice I always force is between Pressure/Pain on the one hand and Submission/Positional advancement for me on the other.
I’ll cover this in much more depth on my Pressure & Control Instructional when this is all over and I can start shooting. But, for now I’m getting time to write out and finish the syllabi for all my DVDs

This technique is actually in my Blue Belt curriculum.

Against a standing passer, many guard players will opt to sit up and attack the passer’s lead leg.
Here, I show three options on how to nullify the guard and submit the guard player.

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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