Guillotine Choke From Top Half-Guard Power Guillotine

Clamp tightly onto their lap first to prevent arm escape, then sling your arm through with your bicep on their neck. As they try to posture up, pull their tricep into your abdomen—this makes it very difficult for them to get their underarm free.

Use a two-on-one grip instead: control the same-side tricep with opposite wrist control. Lean backwards and let them pull their tricep back, which gives you time to feed their head under your arm. This method gets around the head quicker, though it's not quite as tight as the initial setup.

Place your foot on your opponent's hip and stretch their leg out. You can also place your elbow or foot on their thigh while turning your whole body to increase the leverage and twist on the neck.

If you can get wrist deep, it shuts off more space and is more effective for strangling. Hand-to-hand works, but wrist-deep grip removes more space from the opponent's neck.

The power guillotine from top half guard is a high-pressure variant where the attacker applies a guillotine choke while maintaining top position in half guard, using full body weight and hip pressure to amplify the strangle. The attacker wraps the opponent's neck from the top, locks a grip, and drives their weight forward and downward while squeezing the neck — the 'power' designation reflects the use of body mass rather than pulling guard for leverage.

The power guillotine from top position gained prominence in MMA where fighters sought to finish guillotines without surrendering top control. Wrestlers entering MMA particularly favoured this approach, as pulling guard conflicted with their positional hierarchy training.

IBJJF: разрешён — Legal at all belt levels, gi and no-gi — chokes are the safest submission cat…; IJF: разрешён — Legal (shime-waza) — strangulation techniques are one of three permitted subm…; ADCC: разрешён — Legal; Unified MMA: разрешён — Legal — choke submissions are among the most common finishes in MMA; FIAS Sport Sambo: запрещён — All chokes prohibited in Sport Sambo; FIAS Combat Sambo: разрешён — Legal

Оценка опасности 9/10. Guillotine variants compress the trachea and carotids from front headlock control

Стандартная цепочка подготовки: Achieve Controlling Position → Isolate the Neck → Set the Grip → Apply Pressure.

Стандартные контрприёмы: Tuck Chin — protect the neck by lowering the chin to prevent the choke from sinking / Two-on-One Grip Fight — use both hands to strip the choking grip before it locks / Turn Into — rotate toward the choking arm to relieve carotid pressure / Posture Up — straighten the spine and create distance to break the choking angle.

Распространённые варианты: Arm-in guillotine (traps the opponent's arm inside the choke for additional …); High-elbow guillotine (Marcelotine) (elevates the elbow above the head for stronger carotid co…); Standing guillotine (finished from the feet without pulling guard); Power guillotine (chin-strap grip with a rear-naked-choke-style finish for …).

Used in both gi and no-gi competition when the opponent fights for the underhook from bottom half guard. Appears in MMA when fighters catch guillotines during half-guard passing.

Основные ошибки, на которые стоит обратить внимание: Attempting without the opponent's head below your chest — the power guillotine requires the head to be in front headl… / Not sprawling aggressively — the 'power' comes from the sprawl; a mild hip drop doesn't generate sufficient compression / Pulling guard when the top position is advantageous — the power variant stays on top; pulling guard is a different te… / Not controlling the opponent's legs — if they free their legs from half guard during the guillotine attempt, they can….

Guillotine Choke From Top Half-Guard Power Guillotine также известен как Girochin Chōku, Power Guillotine, Half-Guard Power Choke.