Neil Melanson Shows A Powerful Way To Take The Back From Turtle
Dec 01, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
It can be sometimes incredibly frustrating when your opponent turtles up, because it can seem that there’s no way you can open them up. And even less so, to take their back – which might...
Neil Melanson Shows How To Set Up An Arm Triangle – From Closed Guard
Oct 02, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If there is one guarantee that will make your submission technique work, even if it is low percentage – then it’s about surprising your opponents with it. For, if they don’t expect...
Neil Melanson Shows How To Do The “Helicopter Triangle Choke”
Aug 08, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
The triangle choke from guard is one of the first submissions that you will typically learn in BJJ. It is highly effective and will work at all levels. There are so many ways to set up a triangle...
Neil Melanson Shows A Super Useful Choke (Your Training Partners Will Hate You For It)
Aug 08, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If there’re two things you can be sure of when Neil Melanson has a technique to show, then they are: 1) it’s an effective technique, and 2) it’s probably nasty. For example, here is a...
Neil Melanson Shows A Filthy 2 On 1 Arm Crank Submission (Be Careful With It)
Jul 19, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If there’re two things you can be sure of when Neil Melanson has a technique to show, then they are: 1) it’s an effective technique, and 2) it’s probably nasty. For example, here is...
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...
Rare Closed Guard Choke Shocks The Crowd at Local Grappling Tournament
Feb 08, 2024BJJEE
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,...
16 Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners That Were Promoted Straight to Black Belt
Feb 07, 2024BJJEE
The BJJ black belt is a very prized possession in the martial arts community. It is arguably the most difficult belt to achieve in martial arts. The road to a black belt is usually a long and...
The “Butt Drag” Is The Move You Need To Take The Back (From Turtle)
Dec 01, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Now, we know what you’re thinking… “Really, a Butt Drag? That doesn’t seem like a technique my training partners would appreciate me for doing it to them.” But worry...
Learn The “Near & Far Ankle” Approach To Dealing With The Turtle Position
Nov 29, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
If your opponent turtles up and really tightens up, then there’s not much you can do to create openings. However, two things might still be available – their ankles. And, coincidentally,...
This Is How To Use Your Lower Body To Finish The Arm In Guillotine Choke
Oct 31, 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,...
This Move Will Make You Enemies On The Mats: The “Butcher Shop”
Oct 02, 2023BJJEE1 Admin
Do you have a favorite training partner who doesn’t have anything against you trying out weird (and, often times, painful) techniques on them? If so, then you’re going to love the...
The Knee Fold – Ultimate Detail To Arm Triangle Mount Transition
Sep 17, 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...
