Open Guard: Guillotine to Head and Arm Control

Yesterday we were working more of a wrestling move than a Jiu-Jitsu one.  This technique is used to transition from a defensive position (you sitting in butterfly or on your side with your opponent standing and free of your guard, trying to pass) into an offensive one.

You want to keep a more upright posture than the guy on the bottom here

Snap Down to Guillotine
- Use one arm to stiff arm and push your opponent away, pushing around the shoulder area.
- If your opponent starts to lean in to grab your feet or to collapse down on you, use this pushing arm to cup the back of his head.
- Pull his head straight down.  Take your other arm and place the edge of your wrist under his neck (thumb up).
- Lock the technique in by grabbing your wrist and pulling up, while pushing his head into your chest.

Typically you would start to fall back for the guillotine at this point, but keep yourself more upright.  The goal of this neck attack is to surprise your opponent and get them to raise their hands to defend the choke.  Once their hands start rising:

Pushing the choking arm through and locking it - Just like working an anaconda

Guillotine to Head and Arm control:
- Push your choking hand deep under the opponent's neck and past his arm.
- Use the bend in your other elbow to lock in the choking hand (as if you were attempting an anaconda choke)
- Lean your chest pressure on your opponent and escape your legs so that you can come up to your knees
- Twist the elbow/hand that you have locked together deep under your opponent and walk backwards to flatten your opponent out.
- Now you can work towards his side or back from a more dominant position.