The setup was based on your typical underhook tieup, and also assumes that your opponent drops their level, presumably to shoot or set up a throw of some sort. The first step is to ditch the underhook and wizzer their underhooking arm, with the idea of giving you enough room to slip your free arm in for the guillotine. Danny prefers grabbing the chin, but my arms are to long for that to be practical for me.
Next, you step away from the wizzer in order to get the space to sink the choking arm deeper. At this point, I discovered that the standard guillotine may not be the ideal move for me. I kept sinking my arm too deep to hit an effective guillotine by grabbing my wrist. Instead, I think that the front-naked grip might be a better option for me. Regardless, the finish comes by lifting your wrist and rotating your elbow toward your own belly button. Also, performing the hard to describe tightening that is part of any choke.
If the opponent tries to counter, Danny showed a method for pulling them into your guard and killing the counter: basically, you step on their toes with one foot and lift the other to establish closed guard. Finishing from this position comes by scooting your hips in the same direction that you're trying to rotate your choking arm.
The guillotine counter was more or less standard fare: the hand on the choking arm side grabs their hand to relieve pressure while the other arm goes over the shoulder to help maintain shoulder pressure as you tripod onto their neck. Walk your legs and rotate your hips such that you prevent them from turning their hips in the right direction. Break the grip, slip your head out, and establish posture.
The guard break was based on a lapel grip in the solar plexus, and and additional grip further down the collar and a hidden elbow in the thigh. Stand up and use the knee on the side you have the higher lapel grip and rotate their hips. Pop with the elbow on the knee and open. Single stack pass, dragging the lapel through the legs.
My first roll was with a blue belt whose name I don't remember. Most of the roll consisted of my maintaining sidemount as he was in running-man posture. I was trying to get a collar to set up some sort of choke, but his defense was really tight, so rather than trying to muscle I made some attempts to head to KOB or take the back or mount, but his defense was still too good. Eventually, he attempted to roll to guard, but since I was well aware that that was his intent, I followed him and forced him to turtle. Once there, I worked on setting up a clock choke, but he defended well again and I was unable to pull it off. Fortunately I had a one-on-one on the far side and got my knee inside his shell, which made it very hard for him to roll me despite controlling my hand that had been going for his collar. Eventually I managed to scoop his arm with my leg with the idea of going for a crucifix, but he moved his arm to reverse omoplata position on his own, so I went for it. Unfortunately, I was unable to finish and he escaped because I neglected to secure his leg as I rolled. I will have to remember to do that next time I try this move. He ended up in my guard and we stalemated there until the end of the round.
My next roll was with a huge dude who was all kinds of abrasive. I swept him using butterfly guard and he tried to derp-press me off him. I armbarred him in short order and we reset. This time he passed my guard and made no attempt to do anything except smoosh my face from sidemount. I kept my leg up and before long he gave me space enough to recover butterfly guard. I went for a sweep, but through a combination of my sloppiness and his massive bulk, he passed and I had to scramble for closed. From there, he went right into more face-mashing, still without trying for a submission. I nearly set up a flower-sweep, but I was frustrated and tired and thereby failed to set it up nice and clean. I did not succeed, and with about a minute left in the round I tapped to face smashing/exhaustion.
I was severely miffed after this roll, and I realize that it's almost entirely because I'm frustrated with myself for not being good enough to lay waste to dumbasses who go out of their way to do bad jiu jitsu. I also realize that the only way to get better is to roll with said people. Sigh.
My third roll was with a fellow white belt. I started off by passing his guard without too much trouble. He also went right for running man (I guess people have been reading Jiu Jitsu University left and right) and I worked to set up a collar choke. At one point, I goofed up and played some open guard. I caught myself being super lazy and basically playing without my hands, at which point I gussied up and actually worked for a sweep, which felt like a total bullshit sweep; I grabbed his ankle, put my foot on the same knee, underhooked his other leg and rode into a guard pass. I started setting up the same choke, and I was certain I would get the choke, but did not. Instead I transitioned to the back and spent some time switching between triple attack position and back, eventually setting up an armbar and finishing it with a few seconds left on the clock.
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