Neil Melanson is an American combat sports coach. He is the former head grappling coach at The Blackzilians, Xtreme Couture Las Vegas and Alliance MMA. Melanson specializes in Catch wrestling, while drawing elements from Judo. He is an MMA coach but especially known for his grappling skills and instructions. As a grappling specialist Neil has created many new aspects of the ground fighting game with the design of systems like K Control guard, Irish Collar, cradle systems, chokes such as the Hand Gun and Butcher Shoppe series, and many others. He has trained under Gene LeBell, Gokor Chivichyan, and Karo Parisyan (who awarded him his black belt).

Throughout his career, the professional fighters Melanson has trained include: Randy Couture, Karo Parisyan, Gray Maynard, Todd Duffee, Goran Reljic, Chael Sonnen, Vitor Belfort, Anthony Johnson, Patrick Cummins and others.
Melanson also has worked with WWE professional wrestler Daniel Bryan, and was cited to teach Bryan The LeBell Lock, a hold that Melanson learned from LeBell.

Neil developed a comprehensive guard system that adjust to opponents movement that he played out in his book “Mastering Triangle Chokes”. In this book he details how to blend triangle attacks no matter what body position your opponents in. His book is available on Amazon.

Prior to working at Xtreme Couture Las Vegas, Melanson spent seven years in the United States Navy and five years as a Special Agent for the Federal Air Marshals.
Melanson's book "Mastering Triangle Chokes: Ground Marshal Submission Grappling" was released by Victory Belt Publishing. The book serves as a complete guide to the physiology and science of triangle submissions.

Pick up all Neil’s instructional series at BJJFANATICS.COM

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