If any of you were watching UFC 109 this weekend, or if you just have a penchant for all things extremely brutal, you would remember Joe Rogan talking about Dan Miller’s “killer guillotine” that you can find online.  Well, you can check it out here, and man is it brutal.

The choke is a variation on the guillotine that Miller’s teacher, Ricardo Almeida, teaches as one of his bread and butter moves.  Miller catches the guy with his neck out and pulls his bicep around his neck with his elbow around his throat and makes a muscle, squeezing against the corroded arteries.  Then what makes it so devastating is that he pushes his opponent against the ropes making him stick out his neck an extra couple of inches exposing the arteries even more and pushes his head down against his stomach deeper into the choke.

Another way of pulling it off is with a ten finger grip (fingers clasped together) under the throat with your wrists over both corroded arteries, then you push the opponents head down with your stomach “feeding the blade” so to speak and synching the choke.  The move works best against a wall, a cage or in this case ropes, for some real leverage and the ability to pin the opponent against something to make it harder to wiggle around or escape.  Jon “Bones” Jones did something to this effect against “Irish” Jake O’Brien back at UFC 100, but it didn’t look as disgusting as Miller’s. Did he almost decapitate the guy?

Well, anyway, don’t try this at home kids on any of your family members or your dog.  This move is best used in dire situations and I’m not talking about when the guy at subway ruins your 5 dollar foot long.