Guillotine Counter
Today we drilled the following flow:
Double Leg >>
<< Head and Arm Guillotine
Guillotine Counter >>
<< Butterfly Sweep
Hip Out >>
<< Danaher Choke
After class I was screwing around on YouTube and I saw a video for the D’Arce choke. I was all, “WTF! That’s the Danaher choke that I was just doing fifteen minutes ago!” I’m not sure who Danaher and D’Arce are but I think they ought to fight each other to see who gets to name the move.
Anyway, the Danaher/D’Arce choke is kind of advanced for me. What I really want to remember about today is the guillotine counter. I liked the counter Shawn Williams showed us because it doesn’t require you to hop over your opponent’s guard like you sometimes see. I’m not nimble enough to hop and the last time I tried I landed with my knee on my opponent’s ribs and practically killed the poor guy. So I don’t try that anymore as a courtesy to my partners.
So what you do is grab the choking wrist with your free hand using a monkey grip and pull your elbow down to your waist while looking up. Then you stabilize on your other leg while driving your shoulder downward into your opponent’s sternum. It’s important to get your opponent’s back flat because it makes it harder for him to keep his hands clasped. Also, if you stabilize on your knee, you’re vulnerable to a butterfly sweep. Or you’ll just lose your balance and flop over on your side like I did about thirty times.