The Most Important Concepts Of Controlling The Back by Felipe Pena
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Felipe Pena on the concepts that actually keep you attached: chest-to-back connection, hip tracking and not over-committing to a choke.
Control
Maintaining Back Control
Following the opponent's movements, switching from hooks to body triangle and re-establishing the seatbelt when they try to escape.
Also called keeping the back, back retention, back control maintenance, following to the back.
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Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Chewy's white-belt-friendly way to get to back mount and stay there, still used at black belt.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Simple back-mount adjustments when they are escaping the hooks, so you keep the seatbelt.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Knight Jiu-Jitsu's essentials for attacking the back in gi and no-gi: control first, then the chokes that follow.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Jordan walks through eight fundamentals of holding the back: seatbelt, hip connection, following the roll and when to switch to a body triangle.
No-gi Intermediate
Gordon Ryan on the secrets of his back attacks: controlling the wrists, the straitjacket idea and forcing the neck open.
Gi & no-gi Beginner
Jean Jacques Machado on the small upgrades from a loose back take to a back you can actually finish from.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
Ffion Davies on back-control concepts: seatbelt, following the turn and when to switch to a body triangle.
Gi & no-gi Intermediate
How to use the hooks and the body triangle as active control rather than just sitting there waiting for a choke.