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Knee on Belly, Standing Step Pass vs Open Guard, Folding Pass
     

Marcelo advocates for a strong combination of passes from the standing position: Remember to block your opponent from getting their foot set in front of you after you've established Knee-Mount by keeping your elbow-knee connection tigh...
Guillotine Choke from Side Control
     

Marcelo briefly reminds Orlando of the importance of properly learning the Guillotine-Choke: Snap your forearm onto your opponent's exposed neck and clasp your hands together as quickly as possible; the moment your opponent's chin is o...
North South Choke from Side Control
     

Marcelo provides some helpful insight on the finishing details behind his North/South Choke: A major component behind success with the North/South-Choke is a matter of attacking the neck with a clean entry; whenever your opponent has t...
Posted: 97 days ago
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Guillotine Choke from Side Control, Guillotine Choke from Butterfly Guard
     

Marcelo articulates the exact mechanism behind his entry for the Guillotine Choke: Counterintuitively, one should attack their opponent's head with your arm as if striking their neck rather than simply looping around it; when you antic...
Posted: 103 days ago
 126 views
North South Choke Details
     

Marcelo offers an intimate masterclass on many high-level aspects of the North/South Choke: Constricting your opponent's neck is a matter of timing, feel, and weight distribution; ideally, land on top in such a manner so that the botto...
Taking the Back vs Single Leg, Crucifix from Back
     

Marcelo urges Mark to develop a high-level approach in upgrading position through transition: When ahead of your opponent, one must look to take more than is apparently offered by anticipating future mistakes in your opponent's defense...
Guillotine vs Reversal from Half Guard
     

Marcelo talks about several important aspects of the Guillotine-Choke: The point of entry for attacking your opponent's neck while they are turtled up should come from the front rather than by wrapping around from the side. Jam your wr...
Elbow Push Escape vs Side Control
     

Marcelo and Youssef discuss the intricacies of an effective Elbow-Push Escape: There are a multitude of factors that determine the varying degrees of success or failure with the Elbow-Push Escape (Stiff-Arm Escape, Heisman-Escape, et a...
North South Choke Entry
     

Marcelo shows Mark Bocek a clever way to get the N/S Choke: If your opponent isn't giving you enough space to feed your hand underneath of their neck, or if you happen to be wearing MMA gloves that make it difficult to pass it under, y...
Closed-Guard Recovery vs Side-Control
     

Master Fabio Gurgel shares some incredible details to regarding guard recovery to Paul & Josh: Pressing your opponent away with a frame, in this case a posting arm, against their far-hip while turned onto your side, can only be maintai...
Leg Drag Pass vs Open Guard
     

Marcelo offers advice to Orlando about how to follow-up with a countered Leg-Drag Pass: After crossing your opponent's leg over and hunkering yourself down into a Leg-Drag, they may have the opportunity to counter your attack by pummel...
Frame Escape
     

Marcelo espouses the need for learning how to construct shortened frames: Building back into a proper defensive posture when presented with a less than ideal situation can prove quite troublesome if you do not have an effective respons...
Guillotine Choke vs Hitchhiker Escape from Armbar
     

Marcelo gives some advice to Paul about connecting submission attacks: Experimenting with new transitions and combinations can be a tricky process; one must assess and account for any possible points of failure. Testing for weak spots ...
Arm Triangle vs Half Guard, Arm Triangle from Mount
     

Braulio shows key details for finishing an Arm-Triangle Choke: Align your chin on top of your opponent's near-side shoulder and focus your compression inward; clocking around their shoulder with your legs running laterally toward a per...
Posted: 362 days ago
 114 views
Hand Fighting from Side Control, Step Over Armbar from Side Control
     

Braulio Estima shares some finishing skills from various Side-Control positions: Controlling over your opponent's head with a Cross-Face in combination with an Under-Hook against their far-arm, if they extend their hand and elbow towar...
Aoki-Lock Defense
     

Marcelo counters a foot-lock that is gaining in popularity amidst competitors who are willing to skirt the rules in the gi: If your opponent attacks your ankle by hugging around it with an over-hook, quickly slip your foot free heel fi...
Bridge-Escapes, Frame-Escape vs Under-Hook & Head-Control, Single-Leg vs Side-Control
     

2-Part Advanced Lesson -- Marcelo performs a set of late escapes from bottom Side-Mount: Try your best to not let go of any momentum if your opponent hits a pass and lands with Side-Control; oftentimes, you still have enough time to ra...
Loop Choke from Front Head Lock
     

Marcelo briefly demonstrates how to finish a Loop-Choke from the Front Head-Lock Position: Avoid rolling through too far when applying the finishing pressure with the collar-grip across the neck; so much so that you actually place your...
Posted: 733 days ago
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Hand Fighting
     

Marcelo helps Megan with hand-fighting for both gi and no-gi: When your opponent isn't readily committing to an attack, use your hands to help force an exaggerated reaction from them; pop their shoulders with strong posts and get them ...
Far Side Armbar from Side Control
     

Marcelo talks to Bryan about how he prefers the Armbar over the Kimura from Side-Control: Oftentimes when faced with a strength disparity between you and your opponent, the armbar offers a much higher percentage of success than the Kim...
Posted: 767 days ago
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Drilling Your Finishing Sequences from A to Z
     

Marcelo instructs his Advanced Class to practice ending combinations from feet to floor: Learn to look further ahead during your matches so that you can execute a plan from the start and build up momentum towards an eventual submission...
Monoplata from Mount, Spiral-Armbar from Mount
     

Marcelo guides Bryan through the Monoplata and Spiral-Armbar: If you time your opponent's Under-Hook correctly while mounting, you can trap their arm inside a Reverse Technical-Mount (aka Reverse S-Mount, Sugar-Mount, Marceloplata, et ...
High-Pressure Attacks from Side-Control
     

Marcelo shares a game-changing detail with Kanan for maintaining Side Control with a Guillotine threat and he shows Hudson the infamous Bas Rutten Neck-Crank: If your opponent is defending you from taking the Mount while you are locked...
Hand-Fighting from Side-Control
     

Marcelo helps Jon with a highly nuanced problem after passing: If your opponent is strongly defending and depriving you of a moment to advance and take more from them, adjust accordingly by intensifying your driving base and sophistica...
N/S-Choke to Guillotine-Choke from Mount
     

Marcelo & Jimmy help Bryan cinch up a Guillotine from Mount: If you've encircled your opponent's head with your arm for a possible N/S Choke, oftentimes they will attempt to escape from danger by turning into you; during this transitio...
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