Side Control Flashcards by Joel Withey

How do we create space to insert a forearm frame at the hip in side control?

We do this by turning in what seems to be the ‘wrong direction. We must turn our body away from the opponent to create enough gap to get out elbow inside his hip.

we do this by using an asymmetrical bridge away from the opponent, just enough to get the elbow inside and achieve the forearm frame.

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How do we create space to insert a forearm frame at the hip in side control?

We do this by turning in what seems to be the ‘wrong direction. We must turn our body away from the opponent to create enough gap to get out elbow inside his hip.

we do this by using an asymmetrical bridge away from the opponent, just enough to get the elbow inside and achieve the forearm frame.
You should place the forearm frame about halfway up your forearm on his hip.

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What are the steps to the standard elbow escape from side control?

First we must achieve the first piece of inside limb position and get the forearm from on the hip, to do this we must:

bridge in the ‘wrong direction’ away from the opponent using an asymmetrical bridge, creating enough space to get the forearm frame on the hip, about halfway down our forearm
then we perform an asymmetrical bridge with a reaching bicep crossface into our opponent with the intention of moving his head to the same side of our body as his knees
shrimp hips out from opponent
invert your knee (point knee towards floor and foot higher towards ceiling)
insert the knee at the pocket of opponent’s hip
move your knee down inside opponent’s knee and use your knee to drag him towards you so you’re more aligned
use your other leg to step over the opponent’s calf and hook his trapped leg
now still framing at the hip with your elbow, bring your bottom knee (the one that performed the first elbow escape) to the pocket of his other hip by your elbow and realign with him.
now use the serpentine motion to shift your hips out to the far side
lock up closed guard around opponent

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how do we use a forearm crossface to help create space for us to escape side control?

we use a forearm crossface by placing our hand on our opponent’s shoulder, forearm across his shoulder line.

using this forearm crossface as a pushing force, combined with an asymmetrical bridge into our opponent, we move our opponent’s head to the same side of our body as his hips

this makes it a lot easier for us to get the inside position with our lower limbs, making escaping easier

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What are the insertion points involved in creating the ‘V-frame’ and why is this important to escape side control?

the insertion points involved in achieving the v-frame to escape side control are:

bring your inverted knee (foot higher than knee, knee pointing to floor) to the pocket of opponents hip
for every inch our hips shrimp out, our knee can move into his hip another inch deeper into the pocket of his hip
our inside forearm should be placed half way down our forearm at his other hip
if your forearm is outside and opponent is tight to you, bridge away from him enough to bring your forearm inside
once both knee and forearm are inside his hips they can meet to form a ‘v-frame’ across your opponent’s hip line
the v-frame is almost like a side guard for when your opponent is pressuring into you while you are performing an elbow escape
your knee can then move down inside the opponent’s knee
drag his knee around with yours, step over his calf with your outside leg, capturing the knee
frame on his opposite shoulder, elbow escape on the other side
regain guard using the ‘serpentine motion’

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how do we deal with a crossface in the bottom of side control, using the ‘walk the hips away method’?

when an opponent has a strong crossface we can:

get the forearm frame with our inside arm at his hip
now we start the action of walking our hips away from our opponents
if he doesn’t follow us we can then throw our hips back into his with an inverted knee straight into the pocket of his hip
but because walking our hips away relieves the crossface pressure, our opponent has to follow us
as he follows us and we have created space we must quickly change direction and throw our hips towards his with an inverted knee straight into his hip pocket
form a v-frame
perform the elbow escape
regain guard

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how do we deal with strong crossface pressure while in side control, using the ‘fake reversal’ method?

while in bottom side control we can:

get the forearm frame at the hip
then we can push into our opponent with our inside knee into his hip and hand on shoulder
this will make him push back
then we can switch our hips and bridge into his hip with our forearm frame on his hip as if we are going to sweep him over us to the other side
if he does nothing then he will be swept over but a decent opponent will be wise to this so he will react by basing out with his hand, releasing the crossface
now we can capitalise on this reaction by bridging back into him
elbow escape
regain guard

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how do we deal with a crossface from bottom side control by using our own bicep crossface?

from bottom side control:

get forearm frame on his inside hip
with your outside arm, use your bicep to crossface him as you asymmetrically bridge into him powerfully, reaching passed his head to move his head away to the same side of your body as his hips
now shrimp your hips back out a bit to create space
shoot your inverted knee inside his hip pocket
bring your knee towards the floor inside his knee
get v-frame at his hips with your elbow-knee connection
drag his knee round towards your hips
reach over his calf with your outside leg, trap his leg with your foot
bring your inside knee to the pocket of his other hip
frame against his opposite shoulder
realign with him
use serpentine motion to bring your leg out
lock up closed guard

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What key things must we do to make the rising shrimp work, to elbow escape from bottom side?

even with powerful crossface pressure being used against us we must:

use a bicep crossface and a powerful asynmmetrical bridge into our opponent to move his head far over to the side of our body that his hips are on (see the pic in the question)
this makes it easy for our hips to shrimp out and rise off the floor so we can insert our inverted knee at the pocket of his hip
once we have dragged his knee/hip back towards ours we can trap his leg with our secondary leg
then its all about escaping his second hip (see pic in this answer)
escape this second hip
use serpentine motion to bring legs out and realign
lock up closed guard

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how can we use an overwrap grip to temporarily relive crossface pressure?

when an opponent has a very strong crossface that may even be starting to strangle us a bit, we can:

use an overwrap grip, wrist deep on his crossface shoulder, with our inside hand
now we pull his shoulder down and away from our face and we turn our head in towards our inside shoulder
and we can walk our hips away too to relieve pressure

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how can we relieve chest pressure in bottom side control if our pressure is squeezing his crossface tightly, putting a lot of pressure on our chest?

we must use our inverted knee to threaten his hips:

bring your inverted inside knee to the pocket of his hip
this will force him to have to sit through to avoid our elbow escape attmpt
the sit through will relive the chest crushing pressure he was employing with his ‘crossface’

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how do we escape side control, if our opponent is blocking at our hip, preventing the standard elbow escape?

we must elbow escape his bicep:

first we must have the forearm frame on his hip
then we shrimp our hips away from him
pommel our outside hand under and inside his bicep
shrimp hips out and bring your bottom inverted knee to your hand inside his bicep
use your free leg to reverse shrimp towards your opponents hips
now get your bottom leg inside the pocket of your opponents hip
then perform the standard elbow escape
regain guard

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what are the body movements involved in the Knee Escape?

the body movements involved are:

an asymmetrical bridge with a reaching underhook
a back heist ( scissoring of the legs to come up to 2 knees)

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how do we get an underhook in side control, even when the opponent has a strong crossface?

we need to bring the other hand inside:

use a bicep crossface and asymmetrical bridge into the opponent
now we pommel our bottom hand inside his armpit
now we can push into him and get both hands inside his crossface and lock just inside his shoulder (like a double, locked hand forearm crossface thing)
now we turn and bridge into him while using a small bumping action, using the strength of both hand to move his head away, creating space
now we pommel our hand through to get the underhook
head to sternum
bottom elbow inside his knee
underhook moves down to overwrap the knee
back heist (scissor up) to two knees
now you’re in a position to preform takedowns etc

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What do we do if we have the underhook in bottom side control but the opponent has a tight crossface, shutting down our ability to turn into him to escape?

as the opponent goes to apply crossface pressure we :

perform a strong asymmetrical bridge into the opponent while using to underhook reach and push into him, taking him overhead with the goal of getting our forehead to his sternum
after we bridge and take him over head, we should be on our side with the underhook pressuring into him, with our forehead on his sternum
now our underhook slides down his back and secures the overhand snaking false grip around his leg into his shin (anchors you to his leg if he tries to sprawl)
bottom elbow comes in close to your hips by his knee
back heist (scissor up to two knees)
get the one handed overwrap grip inside his knee
base on the floor firmly with your other hand so he can’t collapse you
your outside leg comes up to your foot and extends out (like spider man pose)
your other knee bases on floor, toes digging into floor ready to move
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what reactive measure can we take, as an opponent is about to pin us in side control, to make getting an underhook easier?

as an opponent is about to pin us in side control, before they get ‘ear to ear’ to achieve a crossface etc, we can get a reverse forearm crossface:

before he gets ear to ear, we bring our hand inside the crossface and put it on his crossfacing shoulder, with our forearm across his jaw/neck etc
his goal is to apply his crossface pressure to our jaw, which is impossible with our reverse forearm corssface frame
now we can asymmetrically bridge into him with the goal of moving his head away and getting our forehead inside his bottom bicep
with our head inside his bicep it is now safe for us to
pommel our hand inside and get the underhook
he will now probably flatten you back out but it doesn’t matter because you have the underhook

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how can we get the underhook, while stuck in a strong cross face (ear to ear, with locked hands), using the ‘fake elbow escape method’?

while in bottom side control, with a strong crossface being applied to us, this means our arm that is inside his crossface is being shut out, but that means the opponent often opens up space for our knee to come in

we can bring our near side knee (inverted) to the pocket of his hip and slide it down inside his knee (we’re now half way towards elbow escape)
now stand on his calf with your other leg
start to extend your head away from him
now pommel your second hand inside his arm and take the inside position (your hand/arm that’s usually framing on his hip)
now bring the elbow of your primary hand over his shoulder and on front to pommel under as he starts to correct himself
get the underhook and get underneath your opponent- head to sternum
underhook slides down to get shin grip
back heist (scissor up to knees)
shin grip moves to overwrap knee grip, over his hamstring and inside his knee
base with your free hand so he can’t collapse you
have asymmetrical hips
now you can start looking at takedowns/reversals

what is the single arm grip we use after we back heist up while performing a knee escape, and why do we use it?

our underhook slides down the back and snakes around the back of the calf onto the shin with a false grip

we use this because when he sprawls it easily allows us to carry his weight as we are using the structure of our skeleton, whereas is we back heist and rush to get a locked hand grip around the knee, if he sprawls he will easily break that grip and now we’re in a shit position

From the single-leg position in the knee escape, how do we use the ‘hook the ankle, circle, cut back’ method?

you’re performing the knee escape, you’ve back heisted to two knees and you have the ‘snake around the calf/anchor’ single arm grip on the leg. you feel your opponent sprawl so you use the cut back method by :

bringing your primary near side leg up from knee to a foot ( your leg closest to his hips) and put it closer to his leg
slide your secondary knee towards his knee
now use your primary leg to step over his near leg and hook it, coming back to your near, capturing his leg
now, basing with your hands on the floor, start rotating and turning in a circle into your opponent until you can access his other foot from behind, with your initial single-leg gripping hand, grip and hold the foot and keep turning
he will start to collapse to a hip
now your other hand can cup grip the knee, pull the knee in
use climbing grips to get locked hands behind the hips and put him down

when performing the cut-back takedown from the knee escape, we get the opponent broken down to a hip, but he gets a whizzer, stopping the takedown, what do we do?

we get a ‘dagestani handcuff’ by grabbing his hand with our primary inside hand, pushing it underneath him and feeding it to our secondary hand behind him, gripping the wrist with our secondary hand..

then we can drive into him, taking him down to a shoulder

what is danaher’s favorite takedown from the single-leg position of the knee escape?

Danaher’s favorite method of single leg takedown focuses on getting both of the opponents knees back on the floor. so from the single leg position we:

take our ‘achor grip’ from the shin and focus on getting our elbow inside his shin bone, by getting a wrap around grip on his near side near (grip goes around back of hamstring, elbow to floor and had cupping around the front of his knee)
as he starts to sprawl we focus on turning to face the same way he is, with asymmetrical hips (our knee closest to opponent stays on ground, other leg comes up to a foot) - base with free hand obviously
now we take our knee off the mat to come to our toes, with asymmetrical hips and circle behind him
the pressure of our weight driving into his hips and legs makes the knee of his basing leg come to the mat
now we take our near side knee and put it behind his ankle
now he is forced to work with his whizzer or he gives us back exposure
now we pass off our grip on his knee from our primary hand, and our secondary basing hand wraps around the front to grip the knee
now our primary hand reaches around the back to grip his second ankle and pulls it inwards, underneath him, putting him down to a hip
now our secondary hand can release the knee grip, and reach over the top of to the hips, and start climbing up to attack

how do we perform the rear takedown variation, from the single leg after knee escaping?

after back-heisting from the knee escaping and getting the snake-anchor grip on the shin, we:

move around the corner (move towards back of opponent)
our grip from the shin releases and our elbow comes inside his shin to the floor, hand hugging his knee
now with asymmetrical hips we back-step our legs around the corner behind opponent
this pressure brings his basing leg/knee to the mat
put your near side knee inside his ankle to the floor
DO NOT RELEASE THE KNEE TO GET A TIGHT WAIST
now perform a pass off of the knee hug-grip from your primary hand to your secondary basing hand
your primary hand then reaches over and grabs his other ankle, or knee
then bring your knees off the mat (keep on your toes)
circle around your opponent, to the other side of him, bringing him to the mat

what is a key detail/mistake people make in the rear takedown variation of the knee escape, regarding your grip after capturing the near side leg?

a mistake people make is releasing the grip on the knee, while your opponent likely has a whizzer and they get a rear tight waist grip.. this now means your oppoent can now apply pressure with the whizzer and throw you to the mat

what key detail regarding our hips, is crucial to getting our opponents basing leg/knee to the mat, while we ‘walk around the corner’?

while we back step around the rear of our opponent we must have asymmetrical hips. this means we must have one hip higher than the other, this is what creates that driving pressure as we walk around behind our opponent, to ground his second knee

what hand/grip option do we have, if we didn't manage to get the ‘snake/anchor grip’ on the leg when performing the single-leg takedown attempt off of the knee escape?

if for whatever reason (too much of a scramble etc) we haven't managed to get the single-arm anchor grip around the calf, and we have to resort to loacked hands around the leg/knee then we can : * put flat hands, one on top of the other (usually primary over secondary) on the floor, inside his knee * extend our arms so elbows come off the floor, tall posture * come up onto our toes with asymmetrical hips * start ‘walking around the corner’ (backstep around the back of our opponent)-using our hands as a pivot point * this brings his basing leg down, knee to the floor * our inside knee comes inside his ankle to the floor * secondary hand hugs the near side knee * primary hand reaches around the back and grips the knee of his other leg * drive and pull his knees together as you keep walking around to bring him down to the mat

what are the steps to the standard cutback finish single leg takedown from a knee escape?

we must have the confidence to hold the single hand grip on the floor inside their knee to immobilize the knee then as we feel they are about to sprawl with their whizzer we: * keeping strong posture- with our **ear/head up**, we bring our outside knee of the mat and plant our foot to base * our inside knee sweeps forward forward on front of the opponent's knee * now we start the action of taking our inside ear to their head as we ‘turn around the corner’ into them, using our outside basing foot to step, and pivoting on our grounded knee * this action of turning the corner takes our opponent to the mat and we should land in an over-under passing position * \*essentially we are holding the opponent's knee in place while we use our ear and head position to turn the corner and take our opponent down

Which method would we used to take the back from the single leg takedown position, and when/why would we choose to use it?

when we are in the single leg positions from a knee escape, and our opponent has a strong whizzer and is pressuring down on us, making it hard for us to keep good posture and move etc, we can use the **_limp arm to back method_** by: * we can still grip around and hig his knee tih the single arm grip and base with our other hand * outside leg comes off the ground to base out * keep asymmetrical hips and bring your grounded knee off the ground so your on your toes and start ‘turning the corner’ to put pressure in his hips, you should be in a tripod stance (basing with outside hand, both knees off ground) * now put your inside knee inside his ankle * now from here if/when you try the double leg and his whizzer is tight and his head is coming toward the ground (making it to difficult to switch to a double leg to take him down) * we now base out wide with our outside arm * **in one motion- we take our head towards our basing hand and we turn the knuckles of our single-leg gripping hand down to the floor and whip our hand out and around our opponents back, in a fast paint-brush sweeping motion**, then whipping it around to get the body lock grip with both hands

How and when do we perform the half-guard roll-through sweep finish in the single leg position from the knee escape?

after performing a knee escape and back-heisting up to our knees and basing with our secondary hand hand we get the ‘snake around calf grip’ so if they sprawl, we are anchored to them then we: * slide our knee (same side as basing hand) inside of his grounded knee, so we are more on a hip * our other leg can now step over our opponent's calf, trapping the grounded leg in place * our ‘snake calf grip’ hand can now move up to get a waist grip (belt or pants in gi) * now our basing hand can grip inside the pants of our opponent's other leg (by the knee) * now we can perform a back roll and take our opponent over, sweeping him to the mat

we are attempting the half-guard roll through sweep from a knee escape, and our opponent bases out strongly, preventing us from finishing the roll through.. what do we do?

**we take the back:** * we use our legs to extend his legs in the opposite direction * use our pant-leg gripping hand to base * bring our head out from underneath * use your legs to scissor his trapped leg as you move around to his back

how do we perform the sumi-gaeshi finish from the single leg position off of a knee escape?

after you have knee escaped and back-heisted to your knees, with the single-arm grip on the knee: * we bring our knee (the same leg as your basing hand) and slide it inside his knee, so you're kind of on your hip * at this point your opponent sprawls hard and their legs go too far away for your secondary leg to step over to trap their leg, plus you lose your single-arm grip on the leg * at this point you must bring your sinlge-leg gripping arm up and get therear waist grip (rear belt grip in gi) * your secondary leg that would usually step over now inserts inside the opponent's leg as a butterfly hook on the inside position * your basing hand can now get a sleeve grip on their free hand (their non-whizzer hand) * your head should be on the same side of his, that your sleeve grip is on * you're now in a half-butterfly guard with a rear belt& sleeve sumi gaeshi grip * to perform the actual sweep, **in one motion** we drop towards our shoulder (on the side of the sleeve grip) while pushing his arm in towards his centreline with the sleeve grip, as we also elevate our butterfly hook * the cue as we fall to our shoulder is to **look over our shoulder at where we want them to land** * if they base out with their leg, we use our bottom leg to reverse shrimp and continue the sweep, taking them over

how do we go back to full-guard (butterfly and closed guard) from the single leg position of the knee escape?

After back-heisting up to our knees and getting the single leg ‘snake around calf’ grip. Then just like the sumi gaeshi and half-guard roll-through finishes : * we feel they are sprawling so we put our outside leg up (the leg on the side of our gripping hand) * our other knee slides inside his grounded knee, our other hand bases out of course * now our basing leg steps over his calf, trapping that leg * our gripping hand now releases the calf/shin grip and gets a waist grip (belt in the gi) * now we take the foot of our bottom leg and put it on his knee and push his leg, extending it out * our basing leg now pommels to the inside position, as a butterfly hook and our other leg moves to inside position on his other leg, giving us full butterfly guard **To get to closed guard:** * use your butterfly hooks to push his legs away and pommel both feet around and lock up closed guard

what are the steps to the high-leg escape from bottom side?

from bottom of side control: * get a reverse crossface frame inside his crossface, hand on the shoulder with a thumb-post inside his bicep your other hand can get a thumb post grip/frame on his tricep/arm, giving you double thumbposts * our feet come slightly out to the side away from the opponent * perform an asymmetrical bridge into him, while pushing on his shoulder, the initial motion created by the legs transfers to the push of your upper body * now as we drop our hips out to an angle a bit more perpendicular to the opponent, our knees come up toward our chest * while pushing/framing with our arms, we bring our inside knee (knee closest to his hips) and insert it into the gap by his armpit, and in front of his chest * at the same time your other leg hooks over the back of the opponents head * if he does nothing, you could potentially pendulum your legs toward the ground, taking him over into an armbar position, but he will likely readjust his position, but you have escaped side control

what do we do if we attempt the high leg escape and the opponent pulls away, preventing the sweep reversal?

we follow his movement, and realign ourselves with him, centerline to centerline once we have realigned ourselves with the opponent we can pommel our leg over his head and use body movement to lock up closed guard or open guard

what are the steps to the spinning escape from bottom-side?

from the bottom of side control: * get a reverse forearm cross-face inside his cross-face, then get a thumb post inside his bicep, with your secondary hand get a thumb-post grip by his armpit, giving you double thumb posts * with the double thumb-post frames, bridge and push with your frames * hold your opponent with your frames and as you bring your hips back down, slip your head inside his cross-face, you will be at a bit more of a perpendicular angle * now bring both knees up to your chest, with a rounded back * **your knee closest to his hips inserts under his armpit** in front of his chest- **_this is the most important leg, the working leg_** * your secondary leg hooks over the head, like the high-leg escape but as you ‘spin’ to realign with your opponent, it is the passage of your primary working leg that allows you to push off him to realign and create space * once you realign you can get grips and start going into open guard sequences (CCCB guard, spider guard etc) * or use movement to get closed guard *

what are the steps to the ankle-trap escape with the underhook, from the bottom of side control?

from the bottom of side with an underhook we: * asymmetrical bridge and reach/push with the underhook and bring our head to the sternum of our opponent * our other elbow (the one that was framing on the hip) comes just inside our opponent's knee (his knee on the side of our underhook) * our underhook grip comes down from the underhook position and reaches over and grabs around the top of his ankle * elevate his ankle with your hand * our top leg hooks over the top of the ankle and we lock a triangle with our legs * now that we are trapping his leg with our triangle, we can take our ankle-gripping arm and reach up and grip around the waist * now our other hand gets a scoop grip around the back of his other hamstring ont**o his thigh** * **now we use our bottom hook/leg to reverse shrimp/walk towards his hips, this will bring his knees together into a straight line, narrowing his base** * now from here once his knees are together, we can perform another reverse shrimp, and roll behind us and to tilt over behind you

why is the detail of ‘bringing your opponents knees together’ so important while performing the ankle-trap escape with an underhook, from bottom side?

once we have captured the ankle, and triangled it with our legs, have the tightwaist with our top hand and scoop grip on his leg with the bottom hand: * **its imperative that we use our hips to bring his knees together, with a reverse shrimping action with our bottom leg** * if we don't bring his knees together in a straight line its almost impossible for us to sweep him, as he has a wide base, he can also sprawl here * by bringing his knees together, he can't sprawl, and his base is significantly weakened * once you have walked his knees together using your hips by reverse shrimping, its easy to turn around the corner and tilt him over

What are the steps to the shoulder roll escape from side control?

To perform the shoulder roll escape we need both our hands inside his top head and arm control. To do this we: * use a reverse forearm frame to frame across his shoulder line and reduce his ability to crossface you * perform a bridge into the opponent while pushing with your reverse forearm frame to produce space enough to get your secondary hand to the inside position. * if necessary perform a second bump to free the elbow to turn on your side, facing away from the opponent * with both elbows free we can start to generate effective motion, keep hands in close though so he cant isolate your arms * now bring your scissor your top leg over in front of your hips and you bottom leg behind you with your **back foot close to your buttocks** * now using your two hands grab his ‘overhooking’ hand (the one closest to your hips) and put it on top of our thigh, **with the goal of taking his elbow from in front of our hip to behind our hip** * now our bottom elbow comes in close to our bottom hip to help us push off the ground * now we extend our legs and push into our opponent, coming up to an inverted tripod position where just our shoulders and feet our in contact with the ground- our hips push into his ribs/underneath his armpit area * once our head is between our legs we push into him, bringing our hips down, and putting him back into some variation of guard

What are the steps to the spinning escape from the bottom of side control?

from the bottom we move our knees out and away from our opponent's hips and towards his head: * frame inside his shoulder with your inside hand and on his ribs with your secondary hand * using a slight pendulum motion we throw our knees towards his head, and our outside foot extends out to make contact with the ground for a reverse shrimp * once our outside foot reaches for the floor, push agaisnt his shoulder/torso and use the reverse shrimp to pull our body into a quasi north-south position. * your head should be inside his crossface and underneath him in N/S * now bring both hands to the inside position and use your forearms/elbows to frame inside his torso * now as we frame, the outside knee (the one we used to reverse shrimp) comes inside, and connect to make a v-frame with our elbow * our secondary leg scissors over his shoulder and we use the scissor to turn 180 degrees under our opponent to face him back in guard *

What are the steps to the prop escape from side control? (pushing the cross face arm across the body)

* use a bicep crossface and asymmetrically bridge into you opponent with the goal of creating enough space between his crossfacing shoulder and your neck/head (you may be almost on your side facing the floor to do this) * bring your hip-framing hand through this gap so both of your arms are inside his crossface * bring your bicep crossframe hand across his shoulder line like a reverse forearm crossface and then your other hand can get a thumb post grip inside the bicep of his crossfacing arm * now bring your other hand over and get double thumb post grips on his crossfacing arm * you are now framing inside his bicep, keeping his crossfacing arm away from your head/neck * now bring your hips off the floor towards cieling * in one motion you extend your far leg out towards the side, and with your hip framing hand you **push him across your body-** *do not push him straight up*, your leg falls like a dead weight to help you push as you also prop up to your other elbow then hand * you will now be sitting up towards seated guard and hand framing out agasint your opp * bring your feet in toward your buttocks * realign with opponent * dont leave hand out extended

How do we get inside an opponent's tight crossface?

* we use a bicep crossface and turn our hips towards opponent (shift hips out and away slightly) * perform an asymmetrical bridge into him with the goal of taking his head from the one side of our body to another * to do with we bridge onto one shoulder and turn our chest toward the floor * because our chest is turned toward the floor its easy for us to slip our outside/hip frame hand inside his shoulder/bicep and inside the crossface