Side Control Bottom
You are pinned under side control. Frame, create space and recover guard or get to your knees.
Escapes
Escapes
The core escapes - frame and shrimp to guard, bridge and turn to the knees, the running escape and the ghost escape.
21 resources
Retention
Guard Recovery
Turning space into a guard: knee insertion to half guard, full guard recovery and inverting to recover.
5 resources
Sweeps
Reversals and Sweeps
Bridging and rolling, underhook come-ups and opportunistic reversals when the top player over-commits.
6 resources
Defence
Submission Defence
Protecting your arms and neck from americanas, kimuras, arm triangles and north-south chokes while you escape.
4 resources
Concepts
Survival Concepts
Elbow position, frame structure, breathing and the priorities that stop side control getting worse.
12 resources