Maintaining the Back

Felipe Pena on the concepts that actually keep you attached: chest-to-back connection, hip tracking and not over-committing to a choke.

Simple back-mount adjustments when they are escaping the hooks, so you keep the seatbelt.

Knight Jiu-Jitsu's essentials for attacking the back in gi and no-gi: control first, then the chokes that follow.

Jordan walks through eight fundamentals of holding the back: seatbelt, hip connection, following the roll and when to switch to a body triangle.

Gordon Ryan on the secrets of his back attacks: controlling the wrists, the straitjacket idea and forcing the neck open.

Jean Jacques Machado on the small upgrades from a loose back take to a back you can actually finish from.

Ffion Davies on back-control concepts: seatbelt, following the turn and when to switch to a body triangle.

How to use the hooks and the body triangle as active control rather than just sitting there waiting for a choke.

Clear no-gi introduction to the body triangle from the back: when to lock it, how to face the right way and how not to give up the choke.

Written overview of seatbelt, hooks and body triangle as a control system.

Background on back mount as a grappling pin, including judo and BJJ usage. Linked with CC BY-SA attribution.