Marcelo answers 14 questions about jiu-jitsu; on chokes, heel-hooks, half-guard, warm-ups, learning, sparring, wrestling, punching, and he also shares a hilarious story from his first ADCC World Championship in 2003. Recorded on Wednesday, March 18th, 2020.

5:24(-35:33) Kon Ying: why do you switch lead leg when you are standing/wrestling?

7:00(-33:57) Folana Miller: Do you find there’s any value in "flow" rolling sometimes?

8:57(-32:00) Travis Brown: Any tips on how to improve my guillotine? The main problems I'm running into are I'm not able to get my partner's head deep enough, the hand from the choking arm gets caught on the lapel, or I open up too much space to connect the hands which loses the head or position.

10:33(-30:24) Nick Ruechel: how would you go about organizing your JJ at the early blue belt level? there are so many techniques to learn - i sometimes feel a little bit overwhelmed. it is easy to learn things only at the surface level rather than really mastering a technique. how do you build a solid foundation?

13:42(-27:15) Artur Silva: Hey Marcelo, in butterfly it seems like you always use the opponents grips on you to move them, and set up better grips for yourself, which you use immediately. Is there a system you use or is just experience or feeling?

14:32(-25:25) Mark Fletcher: Hi.. besides training at the academy do you go back to Brazil to learn

18:27(-22:30) Mike Halsey: Facing a turtled opponent: Any thoughts on when to spin to the back versus going straight for a guillotine/anaconda/D’arce?

19:57(-21:00) John Lee Kovenklioglu: You told me you pulled half-guard up until brown belt, before you started training with Fabio Gurgel. When you pulled half-guard, did you do it with a same-side lapel grip? or cross-side lapel grip?

21:12(-19:45) Kon Ying: What was going on in your mind when you heel hooked Ricco Rodriguez at ADCC?

22:45(-18:12) John Lee Kovenklioglu: Marcelo tells a story about ADCC featuring Jeff Monson, anger, and a lack of clothing

27:37(-13:20) Mark Hodos: HI Professor, what about ginastica natural movements? would that be helpful for us on our time off?

31:17(-9:40) Kon Ying: Who punched hardest at ATT? Melvin Manhoef?

32:30(-8:27) Mark Hodos: Thanks Professor! Is it worth it to work on ginastica natural movements while we are off the mats, or is it better as a warm up for a real class as you say?

33:06(-7:51) Al Harrison: Any tips on finishing the north south choke? I get there a lot, but don’t feel confident getting the finish.

36:36(-4:21) Nick Ruechel: speaking of shoulder flexibility! if you're not that flexible in your shoulder, how can you do one of your signature moves, the high elbow guillotine? i have such trouble with the shoulder there. i guess this is a mistake.