As a continuation of my public notebook: I started a new daily blogging challenge to begin solidifying the learning that I’m doing while training jiu jitsu. 

Notes: Wednesday July 17th

Working on competition side control escape prep.

Beginning class with a warm-up, followed by a longer “panic attack” drill.

Basic Side Control Escape

Stuck in bottom side control, begin by bridging upwards towards your opponent with your outside arm framing on their chin/jaw.

Drive your pinned arm to the ground and slip your elbow in the space by their hip.

Connect your inside knee to the outside of their hip. When you shrimp away from them, slide your knee to the inside of their hip. Connect your frames.

Keeping both your leg and arm frame established, extend your body and swing your other “loose” leg on their back as far as you can get it to the other side of their body. Use that as a leverage point to then reorient and get your knee frame through to the other side, putting them in guard.

Grab arms to keep posture broken to create space while swimming through.

Hip Lever Escape

When their hip is low in side control, swim your far leg across to hook their nearest foot. Lock it by the ankle. Shimmy under them as you turn your body away, cranking the hip lever.

Y-Escape

Beginning the process of the basic side control escape, frame up into your opponent and get two “Y” grips under their nearest arm. As they push you back down, use their forward momentum to do a Turkish sit-up, fully turning your body and extending your arm. Pushing them off of you.

Rolling