After all, there were literally thousands of wrestlers who knew the wrestler’s guillotine. I didn’t feel the move was anything special and I never expected that it would become a major part of my game. Not only that, they soon began calling ME Twister. As a result, they continued calling it the twister, and the name eventually stuck. I tried telling them that it was a wrestling move called the guillotine, but in jiu jitsu the name ‘guillotine’ belonged to the front headlock choke, making it off-limits. “Jean Jacques and Rigan hadn’t seen the move before and started calling it ‘the twister’. As Cano explains in his first book, Jiu Jitsu Unleashed: In a competition in Santa Cruz, Cano successfully submitted his opponent Lee Cox with a technique common in wrestling, but virtually unknown in Brazilian jiu jitsu. In May 1994, Edgar Cano walked into Jean Jacque Machado’s academy in Los Angeles, entering his first tournament two years later at a police academy near Dodgers Stadium. He has more than compensated it could be argued that he’s over-compensated.” He can’t grip well with his left hand, so he grips with his chin, his armpits, his feet, etc. “It took me years to realise that his so-called ‘handicap’ was in many ways his secret weapon. As Machado black belt John Will described it in the second of his autobiographical books: Instead, he became an expert at other methods of holding on to the opponent, like under and overhooks. This forced him to rely less on typical gi grips. Jean Jacques Machado was born with Amniotic Band Syndrome, which resulted in no fingers on his left hand.
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