Try This “Hand Gun” Guillotine Choke Variation By Neil Melanson
May 14, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Even though the Guillotine Choke is a basic white belt move, there are so many ways to do it DEAD WRONG! There are so many common mistakes, such as bad grip placement, not scooting your hips out,...
Neil Melanson Shows How To Do The “Ankle Lace”
Mar 07, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
In Jiu-Jitsu, 80% of your time will be spent either defending your guard or passing the guard. Against a very high level guard player, passing the guard is definitely one of the hardest aspects to...
Neil Melanson Reveals A Surprising Guillotine Choke Counter: The Americana
Feb 27, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Through the years there were plenty of debates on the guillotine. There’s a variety of grips, variations and body type modifications you can apply in order to get the most from the experience....
Make Your Kimura Extra Painful – The Neil Melanson Way
Dec 30, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The Kimura would be known as the Reverse Ude Garami, or the Double Wrist Lock in Catch Wrestling circles. There are a lot of different names and sources to what we now know as the Kimura Lock. The...
Neil Melanson Explains the Science Behind the “Butt Drag” Technique
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE
Neil Melanson explains the Wrestling/Grappling technique the Butt Drag. It is actually a very technical move. Neil has an amazing capacity to mix all type of grappling techniques, like Catch...
Stuck in Knee Shield? Try This Unconventional Move by Neil Melanson
Feb 11, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Are you a Half Guard and Knee Shield kind-of-a-Jiujiteiro? That’s awesome! It means that you’re playing a BJJ game that the majority of athletes choose not to play – which puts you...
Neil Melanson Demonstrates How To Counter The “Ball Splitter”
Nov 23, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
You’ve been working hard on your Triangle Choke, haven’t you? Of course you have, it shows. Day in and day out, you’ve drilled it and practiced setting it up in every single roll....
Neil Melanson’s Behind The Back Guard Pass Will Surprise Your Opponents
Sep 08, 2021BJJEE1 Admin
Coach Neil Melanson always has great and unexpected techniques under his sleeve, ones that will surely catch your own opponents unexpected! This time, he has a great Behind the Back Guard Pass that...
Super Tight Choke From Williams Guard by Neil Melanson
Aug 02, 2020BJJEE
The shoulder pin guard aka the Williams guard is a great option which you can use from the closed or half guard. You have countless option using the overhook and from there are as triangles,...
Time To Squeeze Your Opponents With The Boa Head & Arm by Neil Melanson
Aug 01, 2020BJJEE
The cradle is a basic technique in amateur wrestling. Its name refers to the move’s similarity to the way a person holds an infant in their arms. The wrestler performs the cradle by grabbing the...
Neil Melanson Teaches The Tightest BJJ Arm Triangle Using Just One Arm
Jul 28, 2020BJJEE
Kata-Gatame/ Head and arm choke/ Arm Triangle choke is used as a hold down in Judo, and it is mostly used as a choke in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts. There are many schools of thought...
The Butcher Shop Choke by Neil Melanson Will Terrify Your Training Partners
Sep 16, 2018BJJEE
The cradle is a basic technique in amateur wrestling. Its name refers to the move’s similarity to the way a person holds an infant in their arms. The wrestler performs the cradle by grabbing...
Why Your Guillotine Choke is Weak
May 10, 2023BJJEE
Guest post by David Avellan, an ADCC bronze medalist. Avellan has defeated many of the world’s best grapplers, such as BJJ Black Belt World Champions Rafael Lovato Jr., Tarsis...
You Need To Start Using the K Guard In BJJ
May 05, 2023BJJEE
Guest post by Evolve MMA, Asia’s premier championship brand for martial arts. It has the most number of World Champions on the planet. Named as the #1 ranked martial arts organization in Asia by...
This Is The Tightest Arm Triangle Setup In Jiu-Jitsu
Apr 10, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Kata-Gatame/ Head and arm choke/ Arm Triangle choke is used as a hold down in Judo, and it is mostly used as a choke in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts. There are many schools of thought...
The “Kingpin” Is A Horrifying Position – Here’s How To Do It To Someone
Jan 13, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The shoulder pin guard aka the Williams guard is a great option which you can use from the closed or half guard. You have countless option using the overhook and from there are as triangles,...
The 3 Directions Of Movement You Need In Closed Guard
Dec 26, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
When you’re stuck in Closed Guard, you better know how to move… Otherwise, you’ll get swept and/or submitted in a blink of an eye. Opening a strong closed guard in No Gi is usually...
Rare Closed Guard Choke Shocks The Crowd at Local Grappling Tournament
Dec 23, 2022BJJEE
The shoulder pin guard aka the Williams guard is a great option which you can use from the closed or half guard. You have countless option using the overhook and from there are as triangles,...
Escaping The Dreaded Cradle by Jean Jacques Machado
Dec 14, 2022BJJEE
The cradle is a basic technique in amateur wrestling. Its name refers to the move’s similarity to the way a person holds an infant in their arms. The wrestler performs the cradle by grabbing the...
The Nelson Necktie Is A Powerful BJJ Choke – Here’s How To Do It
Nov 03, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
One of the most famous quotes in BJJ that came from grandmaster Helio Gracie is – for chokes, there are no tough guys. The safest way to defeat an opponent in grappling and fighting is to get...
Do You Know The “Ankle Shelf Turkey Choke”?
Oct 19, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The Turtle position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is nowhere as greatly explored as other positions are. That is to say: there are a number of possibilities when your opponent turtles up, both for...
Bring The Pain With the Shin Whizzer to Darce
Oct 09, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
The shin whizzer is a technique that your opponents often don’t expect, and it is a powerful starting point for a whole rainbow of colorful submissions. In these two videos from Neil...
The Exact Moment When You Realize Grappling is Not For You
Sep 22, 2022BJJEE
Neil Melanson explains the Butt Drag – demonstration partner dies a little inside Neil has an amazing capacity to mix all type of grappling techniques, like Catch Wrestling, BJJ, Wrestling and much...
Don’t Ever Try This Dragon Sleeper Variation (Here’s How To Do It)
Sep 22, 2022BJJEE1 Admin
Over the years there’s been a good variety of subs in MMA – we’ve seen everything from Mother’s Milk to Crab rides. Have You Ever Tapped Someone With A Sub Called “Mother’s Milk”?...
