Marcelotine

Marcelotine is the portmanteau name for the Marcelo Garcia–vocabulary high-elbow guillotine — combining “Marcelo” with “guillotine” to flag the variant’s competitive lineage in 2000s and 2010s no-gi competition.

Etymology. “Marcelotine” combines “Marcelo” (Garcia) with the back end of “guillotine” — a portmanteau attached to Garcia’s instructional and competition material. The variant is the arm-out guillotine finished with the elbow lifted above the opponent’s shoulder line and the choking hand seated deep toward the far shoulder — the configuration that defeats the shoulder-pressure defence. It is sometimes mislabelled as an arm-in variant; the defining Marcelotine geometry keeps both of the opponent’s arms out of the choke.

Mechanics. The high elbow rides above the opponent’s shoulder, denying the shoulder-pressure counter and making the grip hard to strip; the deep hand placement closes the loop at the carotid line rather than the chin.

Cross-reference. “High-elbow guillotine” is the descriptive alternate name. Full mechanical coverage on Guillotine.