#side control escape

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BJJ Class

Tuesday morning gi class with Keith. We worked on a nifty little reversal from the bottom of side control:

With opponent on top of side control with crossface, bridge toward opponent to get the left underhook.

Bridge again toward opp to make some space and bring your right elbow in toward opp’s right knee.

Reach your left hand over opp’s leg to grab their ankle. You might need to scissor your legs a bit to reach it.

Slide your hips towards opp’s feet and lock up their foot in your legs with a figure four. 

Reach your left arm around opp’s back and grab their belt.

Reach your right arm under opp’s left thigh.

Opponent will try to whizzer you and spread their knees apart for a stronger base.

Pulling against their thigh with your right arm, pull your hips up, so you bring their knees closer together. You may have to do this two or three times.

Point your knees up towards the ceiling and turn over to top of side control.

After that we did some positional and some regular rolls. Good stuff! 

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BJJ Class

Tuesday morning gi class with Keith. After warm-ups we got into some details on bridging into a side control escape.

When pinned under side control with opponent on your right side with crossface grip and no frames, bridge to your left side to create space to get your right elbow in by opp’s hip. 

Bridge hard to the right side to get opponent’s head on the same side as their legs and slide your left arm back and inside opp’s neck to get your second frame. 

Bridge again to the right and lift your left elbow up to create more space to reguard. 

Slide your right knee (the one on the bottom) by lifting your foot and angling your knee down towards the small gap by opp’s hip.

Shrimp and bring your right knee up.

Shrimp the other way and reguard.

Then we did some positional work and some live. Had a tough time executing step 2 against a capable, unwilling opponent. Gotta keep working these basics!

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BJJ Class

Friday morning with Kevin. Really big crew today. We worked on a defense against letting your opponent settle into side control. The key here is to continue fighting, even after you’ve been passed:

Once opponent passes into side control and goes for the crossface with their top hand (left hand in this case), use your left forearm to block that arm near their elbow and gooseneck your wrist to keep control.

Frame your right hand against opp’s right shoulder and push your hips away as you turn your body to face opponent.

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Then we played some king of the open guard after that. Had good success by grabbing a lapel off my standing opponents, pulling to get them to step their foot near me, and getting an ankle pick combined with a push on the collar. Lotsa fun.

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Keenan Cornelius tries out new chokes

Keenan Cornelius tries out new chokes

Keenan Cornelius has always been known as one of the most innovative black belts within the BJJ community. For those of you unfamiliar with sports BJJ, Keenan is responsible for the growing trend of the lapel game because of his worm guard system.

Keenan is not the first BJJ athlete that uses the lapel to attack but he surely has found his own niche by developing his lapel-based game that it…

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BJJ Class

Friday morning with Jerry. Standard warm-ups and then drilled a side control escape into back control.

From bottom of side control, get your frames.

Lift your elbows to create space between you and your opponent. Instead of getting your right leg ALL the way in to reguard, just stop your right ankle by opp’s hip.

Shoot your left arm for an underhook and lift it over your head to push opponent into a turtle position and free yourself.

Scissor your legs to get up and out facing the same direction as opp.

Make sure your left knee is by opp’s right knee, left hip by opp’s right hip, and your right leg is based out.

Grab your left arm over opp’s back and get a grip on their far lapel.

Slide your right arm under opp’s near armpit and grab their near lapel.

Turn your elbow up towards opp’s head to open a window on their near side.

Slide your right foot in and roll back on your right shoulder to get back control with both hooks in.

From there, you can finish with a gi choke or a bow and arrow. Got some good details on the B&A:

From back control with right arm across opp’s neck gripping their left collar and lying on your right side, use your left foot hook to pull opp’s left leg open and flatten out their hips.

With your left hand, grab their pants outside their left knee.

Bring your right leg under opp’s right leg and kick your left leg over opp’s body to generate momentum to come on top of opp. 

Immediately bring your right knee up by opp’s head. 

Fall back to your left side (towards opp’s legs) as you throw your right leg over the shoulder. If you get the angle right, it should come on as you fall back.

Some positional rolls and live after that. Got to roll with two black belts and got my ass handed to me. Then worked some stand up with Ivan.

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BJJ Class

Friday night with Jerry. Warmed up and worked on some side control escape flows. 

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BJJ Class

Friday morning with Kevin. After warm-ups and some drill time, we got into a narsty little choke from the bottom of side control.

On bottom of side control, with opponent crossfacing, bring your left thumb inside opp’s collar at the back of their neck and your right palm holding down opp’s left shoulder. You’ll keep them tight to your chest so they can’t mess with your arms. 

Using your right hand, open up opp’s lapel on their left side.

Once it’s free, pull it all the way up and over opp’s shoulders so you can pass it to your left hand. You want it to be pretty tight to keep control.

Give the lapel a little slack as you turn onto your right side and hip out to make a little space for your right arm to come under opp’s chest and transfer the lapel grip to your right hand. Your palm should be facing up.

With your left hand, cross opp’s head and get a grip on the gi by their shoulder for a cross lapel choke. 

There were some clear windows for trouble here and Kevin addressed the proper defense. First, when you’re framing to make space to transfer your lapel grip (step 4), keep your right knee ready to block opponent from going knee on belly. When you’re on step 5, opponent could also walk over to north-south. If they do, be ready to push your body away from them and spin around, using the collar grip to maintain control and go for a back take. Then some live rolls!

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BJJ Class

Saturday morning with Vinny. After warm-ups we got into today’s technique, a side control escape:

With opponent on top of you in side control pinning your shoulders down, create a frame with your hands and get your left hand on opp’s left shoulder so you can lift your wrist to create space and relieve pressure. 

Start walking your feet away (towards opp’s head) to create space in the hips. 

Keep going until you can turn onto your side towards opp and create a frame on opp’s shoulder (left hand) and hip (right hand). 

With your top hand (left in this case), grab the inside of opp’s pants by their right knee.

Walk feet away from opp so you flatten our on your belly with your body parallel to opp’s spine and come up to turtle with your head facing opp.

With your right hand, grap the outside of opp’s pants by their left knee. 

Move your left hand to the outside of the pants as well.

Pull your opp’s knees toward you as you shoot your head to opp’s side by their ribs on their left side.

Keep pressure on opp’s knees to the right as you push your head to the left to knock opp down into your side control.

Then we played some positional sparring starting from bad positions. Good class!