Side Control Bottom

You are pinned under side control. Frame, create space and recover guard or get to your knees.

Switch to Side Control Top

• Escapes

  Escapes

  The core escapes - frame and shrimp to guard, bridge and turn to the knees, the running escape and the ghost escape.

  17 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