If You’re Thinking Of Starting Jiu Jitsu, Watch This.

I'm on a mission to get everyone to try jiu-jitsu. Today, I'm going to be taking

jiu-jitsu. Today, I'm going to be taking you behind the scenes at my local gym where I'm going to be teaching a class so you can get a feel for what it is that goes on behind closed doors. All

with one goal in mind, for you to go to your local gym and to try it for yourself. What do I get out of it?

yourself. What do I get out of it?

Nothing. But I will promote New Tonic throughout. Culture here at Garage

throughout. Culture here at Garage University Wong is so nice and there's a lot of highle people, but they're all like the nicest humans you could ever meet. And whether it's your first day or

meet. And whether it's your first day or you've been training for years, you can come along, have a good training session, learn a bit, make some new friends, and it's beautiful. Everyone

should give Ju any kind of combat sport for a girl. I love JSU cuz I feel like it's the perfect blend of physical and mental. Um, it's active problem solving.

mental. Um, it's active problem solving.

So, there's always something to learn, always something to improve on. Every

day you're learning uh through direct experience what you can do better, and that motivates you to come back uh the next day and keep working on things that you need to improve. It's really

rewarding training in a place where you're constantly learning new skills.

Skills that I think are are pretty cool.

The more I learn, the more I want to learn, the better I get and the more fun it gets. So, it just keeps getting more

it gets. So, it just keeps getting more fun. And the people are great. Everyone

fun. And the people are great. Everyone

wants you to get better, too. So, that's

always that feels pretty special, too.

So, we're going to look to try and end up in front headlock, which is where you're in front of your partner. You've

got one hand on the chin, one hand on the tricep. We end up here more often

the tricep. We end up here more often than we'd like to think from passing, but I'm just going to go through the mechanics of a guillotine first. I

didn't get my first submission from a guillotine until I was a purple belt.

And I used to think we were squeezing the neck. I used to think it was like a

the neck. I used to think it was like a rear naked but from an inverted position, but it's not squeezing the neck. So, if you sit your butt and give

neck. So, if you sit your butt and give me your back for a second. One thing

we're going to do with our partner to begin with is a position that I call no man's land. Now, if I'm ever gassed

man's land. Now, if I'm ever gassed around, you'll see me do this. So, we're

going to come to seat belt from behind our partner. We're going to put our arm

our partner. We're going to put our arm across our partner's neck. But instead

of trying to squeeze or submit our partner, we're going to bring them back into this position here. Now, if I take Jake all the way to the floor, he's going to be quite comfortable. And if

he's sat up, he's quite comfortable. I'm

actually going to bring him into a position halfway between the two where he's actually probably going to panic a little bit and he's going to start to feel quite uncomfortable. Then, slowly,

all you're going to do is push your partner's chin to their chest. Now, if I was to get Jake to count out loud to 10, if you do that for me, his ability to count is diminished just by compressing

his chin towards his neck. So, one more time, say it with chest. One 2 3 4 5.

So, that's what I want us to think about. The guillotine mechanics is not

about. The guillotine mechanics is not to do with squeezing the neck. It's to

do with compressing the chin towards the chest. And eventually, I'm not going to

chest. And eventually, I'm not going to do it too hard cuz we're just doing a warm up. If I was to clasp my hands in

warm up. If I was to clasp my hands in this position and to compress his chin towards his chest, he'll probably tap.

Okay.

Cool. So, all we're doing with a guillotine is doing that movement. And

if someone had told me that sooner, I wouldn't have gassed out my biceps trying to squeeze people's heads off so much. So, get your partner, take their

much. So, get your partner, take their back, just slowly start to instead of trying to squeeze the neck, think about pushing the chin towards the chest. And

the fact that my arm is in there means there's even less room for that mechanics to happen. If I take my arm out, it's probably going to be able to go all day. So, do that. Maybe do two, three each side and just start to get

that feeling of what a choke feels like, not a strangulation. So that's a choke.

A strangulation would be where I squeeze his crotets and get the tap that way.

There's two different ways in which we can submit our opponent by using their neck. So even here, I'm just going to

neck. So even here, I'm just going to hold him. Now, he's not going to want to

hold him. Now, he's not going to want to be here. If he sits up, I'm going to

be here. If he sits up, I'm going to pull him down. If he comes down, I'm going to pull him up. I'm just going to hold him in this position of misery. As

long as I've got a hand under his chin and my shoulder behind the back of his head, it's really horrible. And you

don't need a lot of strength to control someone like that. So just like do this sort of like a seat belt. Just one hand.

All right. Yeah. Cool. Now walk your yourself back. Cool. And then even from

yourself back. Cool. And then even from here start to you're you're keeping him in a straight line. I want you to bend him like a fishing rod. Yeah. Oh yeah.

How does this tie in to passing the guard? I kind of stole this from Ash

guard? I kind of stole this from Ash Williams a little bit. First of all, when we passing the guard, we've been passing from supine. And if we harass our partners enough, they will go supine. So Jake to begin with will be

supine. So Jake to begin with will be sat up. He'll probably be reaching for

sat up. He'll probably be reaching for my legs or whatever, but if I can try and cut a corner from him, he'll just go to supine. So, for the sake of this

to supine. So, for the sake of this drill, we're going to do this. Now, I

have a really terrible knee up. Whenever

I start to knee up past people's guards, even a brown belt, it's not that good.

I've got terrible camuras. I've got

terrible arm bars, but even being terrible at things, you can still have a pretty good game. What we're going to do from here is as we're looking for the knee up pass, just so I don't break your fingers, keep your elbow tight to your

body for a second. We're gonna knee cut way past our opponent and turn back. So,

I'm not even gonna look for the knee cut, per se. I'm just gonna go past my opponent. I'm gonna turn into them. Our

opponent. I'm gonna turn into them. Our

opponent's probably going to turn to turtle or they're just going to get past. So, Jake roll to turtle other way.

past. So, Jake roll to turtle other way.

We're going to turn into me and we're going to come into the front headlock from that. So, to begin with, partner

from that. So, to begin with, partner goes twine. We're going to start to set

goes twine. We're going to start to set up the knee cut. We're actually going to go all the way past our opponent. Now,

if Jake doesn't roll in, I've got the position. He's almost 100% going to roll

position. He's almost 100% going to roll in and go to turtle to prevent the pass from happening. As he comes in, I'm

from happening. As he comes in, I'm going to solidify my position on top.

So, one more time, just going to drill this with our partner. The first couple of times, we're going to start to look for the knee cut. We're going to go all the way past our opponent. We're going

to turn back in. They're going to come to front headlock. They're going to go to turtle. So, we're just going to drill

to turtle. So, we're just going to drill that. This is a way that you can pass

that. This is a way that you can pass the guard without having to actually pass the guard. Now, we don't get points because they've gone to turtle, but we do get to get into a position that could be beneficial for us. This is a really

cool way to do it. So, we're just going to drill two, three of those each and find our way into the front headlock so we can start going into the guilt team from there. That's your way you can end

from there. That's your way you can end up in this front headlock position. Now,

the next thing that not many people do at training, cuz I feel it a lot, is when they get here, they think the dominance of the position is just having my weight on top of my opponent, which in some respects is true. But the thing

I want us to do today is we're going to grab the chin. So if I lift your head up. Sorry if everyone can see that side.

up. Sorry if everyone can see that side.

If you turn around 180 for me, please.

Sorry. You can see that I'm really grabbing the chin with my hand. A lot of people in the guillotine like to go with the blade of the wrist through me. No. I

like to hold on to this now from here.

Sorry. If I get you to count to 10 again. Yeah. Five, two, three, four. I

again. Yeah. Five, two, three, four. I

want to hold his chin so hard he can't talk out loud. And there's nothing wrong with me doing that. And when I'm in this position, I don't want the person underneath to feel comfortable. I

actually want them to start panicking already. That's just one hand. My other

already. That's just one hand. My other

hand will go behind the armpit. Now, the

reason no one ever really told me why we grab the armpit. And I'm going to show you now. So, with this, we're going to

you now. So, with this, we're going to play around with this. Our partner's

going to go to front headlock. You go

front headlock for me. Grab my chin and make it quite uncomfortable. Now, if

Jake just has his weight on me, I can grab this elbow and just peek out. And not many people, one are controlling the head enough, but two are respecting the peak

out. So, one more time. So, I come in

out. So, one more time. So, I come in for the front headlock. I'm not really respecting the position. He grabs my tricep, his left hand. Now, even with all my weight on him, all he has to do is peek out the same way as me. He's now

on my back, which is really considering I started from a guard passing position. So, what we're going

passing position. So, what we're going to do, we're going to come on. We're

going to secure the chin strap. I'm

going to ask our partner to count to 10, please. I'm going to hold his tricep.

please. I'm going to hold his tricep.

So, if he tries doing a peek out, he can't move because he needs the rotation from that right shoulder or the opposing shoulder to create a circular motion to peek out. That's why we must

clasp the chin hard enough that they feel like this is really, really but also that we hold the armpit hard enough that they can't turn out. So,

we're going to play around with that.

Your partner's going to put a soft front headlock position on you. You're going

to grab the tricep and you're going to be doing a circular motion. What do you call that in boxing?

motion. What do you call that in boxing?

A weave. Yeah. Cool. Exact same. Tricep

weave. If you look the same way as your partner, you're out. You're on the back.

Then second time, we're going to get a nice little meat claw on the tricep.

Nice little meat claw on the chin. And

we're not going to let our partner move.

So if we go into that from here, it's going to make the next step we go into a lot easier. 1 2 3.

lot easier. 1 2 3.

You know, like that trend on TikTok where they ask their dad to like duck underneath the arm or whatever and then they close their eyes and they're doing that. It's a lot like that. Okay. So, if

that. It's a lot like that. Okay. So, if

you come to front headlock for me again.

So, now that we appreciate that we need the tricep and the chin or they're just going to take our back. Everyone seems

to think cuz I've got head height here that I'm going to beat my partner. If

you're lazy in this position, someone who's in turtle, aka me, is there because they want to be because they're athletically inferior, but they have ways of getting out of it. So from here,

again, one thing that I used to do all the way to a purple belt was I thought I just needed to get under my opponent to start sitting into a guillotine. And in

some respects, that's okay. But the

first thing we need to do is actually lift our opponent up. And by lifting our opponent up, if you come sideways, if we look at Jake's spine here, it's flat. By lifting him up, I

put a bend in it very, very quickly, easily. I don't have to be very strong

easily. I don't have to be very strong to do this. And considering that we know from the first drill that a bend in the spine is one of the best things that we can get for guillotine. That first

little pickup doesn't just give me that, it gives me space to sit into. Now, the

second thing that I'm probably going to do from here is as I lift him up, I'm just going to put my fingers onto my little fingers, just strengthening that grip. Because then when I pick Jake up,

grip. Because then when I pick Jake up, whatever he tries to do, he's now got to fight both my arms to do so. And if he tries to peel away one of my hands like that, it's reinforced with the other and

vice versa. So, we're going to secure

vice versa. So, we're going to secure the armpit. We're going to grab the

the armpit. We're going to grab the chin. We're going to hold the little

chin. We're going to hold the little finger. We're going to pick our opponent

finger. We're going to pick our opponent up. And again, we're not going to lift

up. And again, we're not going to lift them up so their spine comes straight.

Going to lift them up to put the curve in. Now, from here, my right

in. Now, from here, my right shin is going to go into his jeans pocket. You know where you hide a bag of

pocket. You know where you hide a bag of cocaine on a night out? Allegedly, into

there. Okay, here. I'm just going to kick it with my foot and fall to my side. Sorry, that was your head on the

side. Sorry, that was your head on the mat. So, my foot is here. I now have

mat. So, my foot is here. I now have control of shoulder, neck, hip, and there's a nice curve in the back. Now,

irrespective of if my partner goes to put his head into the mat or straighten out his spine, he can't because I've got that grip. From here, the only thing he

that grip. From here, the only thing he can do is jump over my guard, which is why I'm going to put my leg over the top. But ultimately, instead of trying

top. But ultimately, instead of trying to squeeze his neck, and actually for a lot of you on this side, sorry, can you come around here, William Patel, if you look around my right bicep, if we were doing a head arm choke or anything, we

would be very concerned that there was space here. If we were doing a DS or

space here. If we were doing a DS or we're doing an anaconda, we're doing any submission, this would be unacceptable.

But with an arm in guillotine, it's completely fine because it's not the strangulation of the neck, it's the curve in the spine. And all I'm going to do is pull his chin in towards his hips

and his butt using my armpit. Put my leg over the top and we

armpit. Put my leg over the top and we get the submission. So from here, again, my pec is on the crown of his head. I'm

just going to push his hips in towards his his chin in towards his hips.

[Music] This is how we finish a guilt team. It's

not a strangulation of the neck. It's

forcing his chin in towards his hips.

And again, because that arc is through the spine, there's not very far he can go. Now, we're going to play around with

go. Now, we're going to play around with this. Sorry about this. Terrible time to

this. Sorry about this. Terrible time to be in UK. If for whatever reason I can't get the finish, I can take this hand out and I can put it in front and connect with my fingers again. And from here, I

can lift my elbow, come again, and go for a high elbow guillotine. This again

is just going to put more pressure on his neck. We lose the control of the

his neck. We lose the control of the upper body. We go from arm in to arm

upper body. We go from arm in to arm out. We can then clasp our hands

out. We can then clasp our hands together. Hold this in this position.

together. Hold this in this position.

Again, bring our elbow up. And again,

the finishing mechanics is me pushing his head in towards his hips. So, we're

going to play around with that. Arm in

guillotine, arm out guillotine. The

pressure is that we're trying to push our partner's head towards their hips and they will tap. So, we've learned a few guillotine variations. We're now

going to try another type of submission from passing. If our partner doesn't go

from passing. If our partner doesn't go supine, so let's say that I'm harassing Jake and for whatever reason, he's just not going down. I come to the side, he just squares up with me. I'm going to step into his guard. I'm going to

threaten the guillotine. Now, when I threaten the guillotine, he's going to bring his hands to fight my hands. And

when he does that, I'm just going to go to his back and sit. Very simple. So,

one more time. Jake's playing guard. And

for whatever reason, he's not going supine. I'm going to step into his

supine. I'm going to step into his guard. I'm going to throw a guillotine

guard. I'm going to throw a guillotine on. Both his hands are going to come

on. Both his hands are going to come defend. From there, I'm just going to go

defend. From there, I'm just going to go around the corner, drop to his back.

It's one of the easiest back takes there is. Now, another time it happens if Jake

is. Now, another time it happens if Jake does it to me for a second. He steps

into my guard as if he's going to knee cut. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, am

cut. And I'm thinking to myself, oh, am I going to drop reverse deaha? Am I

going to try some kind of wrestler? Then

boom, he snaps on that guillotine. I

think, "Oh if I'm unfortunate enough to fight the hands through his legs, if he comes to my back now around the corner, he also traps my arm." Sit

down. And now from this position, he's got full control of my arm. Put the

other hook in. And I'm pretty much from here. So guys, give this a

from here. So guys, give this a go. Real simple. You're stepping into

go. Real simple. You're stepping into your opponent's guard. They catch him into the guillotine. He goes to defend.

Easiest back take you'll have or your money back. I go to guillotine my

money back. I go to guillotine my partner. He jumps over my guard. I move

partner. He jumps over my guard. I move

my hips away. If my hips are away, he's not got the control that he needs. Now,

everyone watching on this side, you'll notice the corroted artery on the right side of his neck is exposed. I'm going

to put the back of my hand. Some people

call this a punch stroke, but to punch him from here, I feel very difficult. My

elbow isn't in the right driving force.

I could punch out, but I can't punch in.

So, for that reason, I'm going to use the back of my hand. Now, my back of my hand, I'm judo chopping is corroted. My

fingers underneath are wrapping onto my wrist. Now, from here, it's a bit of an

wrist. Now, from here, it's a bit of an Ezekiel. It's a bit of a padlock. It's a

Ezekiel. It's a bit of a padlock. It's a

bit of a a diesel squeeze. It's a bit of everything. Now, from here, I'm just

everything. Now, from here, I'm just going to pull and squeeze. I'm going to get the tap. Now, as I'm putting this on, if Jake comes to lay me flat on my back and tries to crush me and tries to

put the von flu on. So, again, I sit the guillotine.

on. So, again, I sit the guillotine.

He's a real quick bastard. He's round

the side. I push my hips out. From here,

his hand on the hip. I'm trying to get my hips as far away from his as possible. Going to put the judo chop on

possible. Going to put the judo chop on the back. gonna grab my own wrist where

the back. gonna grab my own wrist where my watch would be. Now, it doesn't really matter. The best defense that

really matter. The best defense that he's really going to do is to go over the top and put his back to the mat.

This now gives me the position to come up on top. You can see here that I've got my judo chop in the side of his throat and squeeze. Quickly going to look at two more considerations from

this to make you a better athlete. So,

again, let's say Jake takes me a single leg. Traditionally, for me to try and

leg. Traditionally, for me to try and guillotine him or finish my partner, I've got to push his head to the side.

I've got to take a chin strap. Then from

here, I've got to control the hamstring.

I'm going to sit. By the way, I have to then sit, put my leg across, and I have to go for the guillotine. And if he pops his head out, oh bollocks, I've just given up top position for what? So, one

thing to experiment with is if your partner picks you up in a single leg, pop the head to the side, grab the chin strap, and think, do you know what? I

want to keep head. In jiu-jitsu, if you're ever not sure about the position you're in, if your head's above your opponents, you're in a good good place to be. I'm going to put my hand against

to be. I'm going to put my hand against that. I'm going to put it on because

that. I'm going to put it on because even if I don't get the finish here, you can guarantee he's letting go of my leg.

And then we can start to get into other positions. So that same finishing

positions. So that same finishing mechanics, single leg, just going to pop it out to the side. I'm going to try and get my hand in. If my fingers can wiggle above there, I'm in a good position. I'm

either going to get the finish or against most black belts and brown belts, they're going to let go and just absolutely spaz their way out. So use

this in other positions. Now the last thing that um I'm going to teach is if you lay on your back for a second. I

feel like the guillotine doesn't get enough love from already established positions. Noi is really hard to submit

positions. Noi is really hard to submit people from mount. Like I told you, I've got terrible arm bars. I've got terrible camaras. The idea of me trying to get up

camaras. The idea of me trying to get up into an escard, I'm just getting bumped off my opponent. You'll never really see me going for an arm bar from mount. So

instead, sometimes if my opponent is really tight, he's got his lats turned on, and he's using CrossFit strength to stop me from tapping him out, I'll sometimes bring my head to the mat over here, and I'll just wait because I know

eventually he's going to try and push me off in a bucking escape. So, I'm going to come over here. Jake's going to start bucking me off. I'm going to come around. I'm going to wrap his neck. At

around. I'm going to wrap his neck. At

some point, to push me off with the bucket mount, he has to go concave. So,

the second he goes concave, I'm going to look for his neck. Now from here I can try and finish or actually I can come back to my own guillotine positions and

I'm back into my own attacks from here.

He gets no points for this because I've pulled the guard from mount. Is that

correct? It's a reversal. Thank god for that. I can start to wiggle around my

that. I can start to wiggle around my positions and it's actually a lot easier for me to submit him from here than it is being on top of him. If for whatever reason he manages to pop out or

whatever, fair enough. That's a bad move. But if we ever going to uh if you

move. But if we ever going to uh if you mount me for a sec, if I'm in this position, my head's going to be flat.

I'm going to be keeping everything to myself. But the second that I go to pop

myself. But the second that I go to pop and bump him off, Jake's just going to be ready. And I'm going to go and he's

be ready. And I'm going to go and he's going to reach around. Is once we're in this position, we're making our opponent panic a little bit. He goes for the bump. I get the neck. And from here, the

bump. I get the neck. And from here, the guillotine's only going to get worse for him. I don't want to be loosening it up

him. I don't want to be loosening it up at any point. I want his life to continually get worse. I'm going to make slight adjustments. I'm just going to

slight adjustments. I'm just going to get to the point where even if the strangulation isn't going to tap him, I'm going to squeeze all the hope out of him. And that's the best way to win a

him. And that's the best way to win a guillotine. Take your opponent's hope.

guillotine. Take your opponent's hope.

From here, what I want us to do is go head hunting. So, when I step into the

head hunting. So, when I step into the guard, I want the guillotine. He's

probably going to go supine. If he goes supine, I can use my knee cut to go past. Come back into front headlock. Or

past. Come back into front headlock. Or

even, let's say, for whatever reason, I bring him over to the other side and I start to pass. Sometimes if his head is here, I don't care about the legs. Oh,

he's got inside position. Don't care.

I'm just going to grab a guillotine because he now knows that I've learned about 16 ways to guillotine him. Now,

the worst case here scenario is he clears my hand out, but I'm just going to use this to pass this guy and then I'm passed. Any position that we come

I'm passed. Any position that we come into, maybe he puts me in a knee shield half guard. Cool. If I can clear that

half guard. Cool. If I can clear that knee and just grab his head, I'm in a great position. Both his hands are

great position. Both his hands are dealing with me. I've got a spare hand here. I'm probably just going to come

here. I'm probably just going to come into whatever position we're in. This is

pretty much me exposing all my game.

It's just grabbing the head wherever I can and having really bad passing if I don't have the head. So again, any position you want to work from, maybe even uh he puts me in like a reverse

delever. He starts off balancing me.

delever. He starts off balancing me.

Cool. I'm just going to grab his head.

Going to clear his legs. I'm going to get back through. If he doesn't attack my hands or stop me from attacking his head, I got the guillotine in. So every

time I pass, I'd either get an attack or a pass. And then once I've passed, it's

a pass. And then once I've passed, it's a lot easier to get another guillotine.

So we're going to try that. We get four people in the middle. Everyone line up on the wall. You're going to try and find your way past. No armbars, no kimuras, no leg locks. It's guillotines

or passes. We're just going to do 10 minutes and then we'll get into some

rounds. 1 2 3.

rounds. 1 2 3.

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You'll be there.

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Hey. Hey. Hey.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

[Music] So, as you can see, everyone's friendly.

We get into the techniques. We try and help each other. We try to look after each other. Uh, there usually is a lot

each other. Uh, there usually is a lot more women training with us. Super

friendly. I'm not saying that you need to come to our gym. I'm saying that any local gym that you want to consider joining, message them, go to a trial class. They'll give you a week for free.

class. They'll give you a week for free.

They'll be super receptive. Everyone

seems to think in jiu-jitsu gyms it's super intimidating. It's people trying

super intimidating. It's people trying to kill each other. It's not. Everyone

here, doesn't matter what you do for a living, doesn't matter what you do, who you are, what political party you follow, everyone's here just trying to be better. And I think if anyone could

be better. And I think if anyone could just watch this video and take that next step to start in a jiu-jitsu journey, it'd be amazing. I stopped playing rugby at 28 and this was the perfect thing for me. It's safer. I've been less injured

me. It's safer. I've been less injured and I feel like I'm progressing more than any other sport. Quiet your local gym. Enjoy it. Thanks for watching.

gym. Enjoy it. Thanks for watching.