Guillotine defense

Tonight was a tough night, got submitted so many times, didn't get any submissions and ran out of gas quickly. Anyways, learnt a few things tonight about Guillotine defense.

Basic guillotine defense from standing

When your opponent attempts to get a guillotine on you when standing and they have their hands around your neck, with your arm closest to their body, throw it over their opposite shoulder as far as you can with the inside of your arm against their body. When they try to raise their hips and lock the choke in, your arm over their shoulder should raise you up and foil the choke. However, you obviously want to get out of this position as soon as possible.

As a follow on from this, if step around their body towards your arm around their shoulder, buckle their knee and with your other arm, pull their far leg up to take them down. This is likely to end up with you in side control and if they're trying to keep the guillotine, a good position to transition into one of a few moves.

From Guillotine side control
There are several transitions you can seek from being in a guillotine from side control. Generally someone trying to keep you in guillotine does not have much leverage and ability to close off the choke.

Arm bar
First way to deal with it is to walk your legs around to front control. They are likely to be on their side at this point and if you bring your leg around behind their shoulder, snag their arm and leave your other leg on the original side of their head, you can lean back and get the arm bar. Make sure to pinch your knees.

Kimura Lock v1
Second option is to walk around like before to front control. As you reach front control, pass their arm over your head with the arm that was lower on their body, grabbing the wrist. Put your knee on their arm closest to the floor to pin their shoulder to the floor. With your free hand, snake it under their arm that you are grabbing and grab your wrist in the Kimura lock. Rotate their arm towards their back, maintaining the 90 degree angle for the lock.

Kimura Lock v2 - Loosening guillotine
A third option is that if they are realising they can't get the Kimura lock and are starting to loosen it, you can slip their arm over your head with the arm that is lower on their body, snake your upper arm under their arm pit and throw your upper leg over their head to get a Kimura.

Shoulder crush - Loosening guillotine
Another option if they are starting to loosen their guillotine grip is to reach around their head with your upper arm like in side control. Withyour lower arm, reach it back and then bring it back around their back, trapping their attacking guillotine arm. From here, clasp both of your hands together in a gable grip. Shuffle your shoulder under their neck and tripod on your legs with your weight going into your shoulder and into their neck. Raise your other shoulder so your weight is going through your shoulder. Even if they have their hands in place and chin down, it can still be a pretty nasty submission and can crush their jaw. Our instructor called it the shoulder crush choke and it was a pretty nasty one.

Anyways, will try to keep updating regularly!