Alexander Volkanovski and Craig Jones on a no-gi back escape that works when the top player is riding you belly-down.
Escapes
Escapes
Getting to the weak side, clearing the hooks, escaping the body triangle and the chair sit.
Back Control (Defending) · Back Control
The other side: Back Control (Attacking)
Techniques in this topic
Resources
9 resources
YouTube videos
The Best Way To Escape From The Jiu Jitsu Body Triangle by Gordon Ryan
Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics YouTube
Gordon Ryan on breaking and escaping the body triangle from the back rather than waiting to get choked.
Giancarlo Bodoni's body-triangle escape from the back: creating space at the hips and sliding out without exposing the neck.
Chewy's longer class on escaping back mount the way black belts do it: shoulders to the mat, clearing hooks and not giving the choke while you move.
Knight Jiu-Jitsu's complete guide to escaping back control, covering hooks and the body triangle.
Matt Arroyo's back-escape system: protect the neck, get a shoulder to the mat and peel the hooks in a repeatable order.
Short, clear look at the objective under back control: survive the neck first, then work the escape. Good first video for white belts.
A focused drill on the shoulders-to-the-mat back escape, the first movement every other escape depends on.
Written instruction
Back Escapes
BJJ Atlas BJJ Atlas
Concise written map of escaping back control: neck protection, shoulders to the mat and clearing the hooks.