Hindulotine
Submission
The hindulotine is a guillotine variation finished from Hindu control — the catch-wrestling front headlock where your whizzer-side arm and a leg-in configuration trap the opponent's arm and head together. Associated with the Neil Melanson school of front headlock grappling and taught in 10th Planet circles, it strangles opponents whose standard guillotine defense of clearing the choking arm has already been answered by the Hindu grip.
Quick Reference
Key principles
- · Hindu control comes first: the head and one arm are wrapped with your whizzer-side arm while your leg threads in to trap their posture — the choke is only the last inch.
- · The leg-in element removes their power to posture up, which is what kills most guillotine finishes.
- · The strangle runs through rotational pressure of the wrist blade under the neck rather than a straight pull, so it finishes even against a tucked chin.
- · Their standard defenses — arm over the shoulder, circling to the choke side — are pre-answered by the trapped arm.
- · If the choke stalls, Hindu control converts to triangles and front-headlock series rather than losing the position.
Execution
- 1 From front headlock, secure Hindu control: whizzer-side arm wrapping head and arm, with your leg threading in to trap their near arm or posture.
- 2 Feed your choking wrist under their chin, blade against the throat.
- 3 Connect your hands and pin their trapped arm so it cannot strip the grip.
- 4 Rotate the choking wrist and draw your elbows together, strangling through the trapped-arm structure.
- 5 If they survive the first squeeze, transition along the front headlock series — triangle setups and darce family attacks stay open.
Common mistakes
- × Jumping to the choking grip before Hindu control is set, recreating an ordinary guillotine they already know how to clear.
- × Neglecting the leg-in trap and letting them posture straight up out of the strangle.
- × Pulling linearly on the neck instead of rotating the wrist through it, burning your grip on a chin that never lifts.
Chains into
Where to go next when the Hindulotine lands, or gets defended.
Front Headlock To Back
transition
Guillotine Choke
submission
Transition To Mount
transition
Transition To North-south
transition
Hindulotine Submission Statistics
Most Hindulotine Finishes
RNK
ATHLETE
WINS
1
Jack Reynolds
1
Hindulotine Historical Trends
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Showing the percentage of submissions won using Hindulotine relative to all submission victories
Matches Won by Hindulotine
| Fighters | Result | Opponent | Event | Date | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Reynolds | def. | André Góis | Fight to Win 264 | 2024 Oct 19 |