Side Control Bottom

Question 1

Bridge and shrimp sequence

Answer 1

When doing the bridge and shrimp movement. There is a sequence for activating your body as follows:

1. Plant both feet on the mat as close to your butt as possible. Be on the balls of your feet…
2. Bridge up with your hips as high as you can…
3. Once the hips are maxed out as high as they can go…
4. Press with your arms to push them away. Ideally you’ll have an arm under the chin (forearm on their throat) and your other arm will be on their ribs but near their armpit. You want the force of your push to be centered on their shoulder. Use the forearm on their neck to ensure that their head moves as well…
5. Shrimp your hips away…
6. Recover Guard…
   * If they drive back into you, pull their head close and continue their momentum for the Hercules sweep.
   * If they post to avoid the Hercules sweep, just bridge and shrimp again to recover guard…

Question 2

Far side hip escape

Answer 2

From side control bottom. You have one hand under their chin/ framing their face and one hand under their hips on the far side of their body…

Grab the pants on the far knee or just post on the knee (no Gi)…

Hip switch and walk your legs away from them for 3 steps…

Turn back into them and chamber your far leg close to your butt and slightly out. Bridge into them directly and then push away/ shrimp away and recover your guard.

The 3 steps from the hip switch should give you much more space when you do shrimp out to recover.

Question 3

John Dahnaher perfect escape

Answer 3

From side control bottom…

Your goal is to get inside the opponents wedges. Typically the wedges will be cross face, underhook and both the opponents knees in tight to your hip and arm…

1. Reduce your vulnerability
   Get your arms in and protected and guard against the mount by putting your knee in the pocket of his hip.
2. Get inside their wedges, starting with the near side hip. Get your elbow inside their hip…

Join your inside knee and elbow together. Bring your knee inside their far hip by scooting out with your other foot inch by inch. Use your elbow in their near hip to keep them from closing the distance. Form a V shaped frame using your elbow and knee…

Take your outside foot and place it on top of your inside foot. Use both legs to push against the opponents body and start to square up. Swim your arm inside their cross face as they try to pressure in. Hook the bicep to prevent them from getting the cross face back…

Square up to them further by bringing your inside knee further inside and into a butterfly type position. Totally square up and get butterfly hooks with both feet…

Get under hooks with both arms and elevate them using your butterfly hooks to sit up and get off your back

Details start at 10:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuXq-k__9lQ

Question 4

Arm over escape

Answer 4

When the opponent passes and comes to side control…

Get control of the head hooking arm by making your arm into a hook and putting it over their tricep, hide the elbow of this arm under them and rest it on their belly. You want to pin their arm to their body.

When they pull the arm up to free it, follow it around and as soon as your elbow is free point it towards the ceiling. The elbow should be above your midline and this movement with the elbow will push their arm across the midline to the other side of your body…

Bring your other hand up behind the arm, push it away from you with both hands and lock your arms with your hands on their tricep/ elbow/ armpit…

As the arm passes across your midline, switch your hips so that you face the same direction as your arms point…

From here you can either shrimp back or roll away from them to your knees and flip them over. As you shrimp back, point your tailbone out behind you so that you don’t just shrimp back into their thigh.

As soon as your butt/ hips are free you can bring your shin across their ribs and turn into them to reestablish open guard or at least take the pressure off you…

Alternate detail:
Once you get the arm over and have shrimped out to clear your hips, take your bottom hand off the tricep and post it on the mat behind you. Use it to sit up, shrimp away more effectively and recover position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDVO9kXu5Lc

Question 5

Escape from Judo Kesa Gatame

Answer 5

You get caught and they are putting heavy pressure into you…

Clasp your hands behind their back and bridge straight backwards on your center line…

This will make their hips and legs light and they should be easy to roll over…

Take side control top…

Question 6

Escape from Scarf Hold

Answer 6

From scarf hold bottom…

Tuck your inside arm and try to bring the elbow to the mat to keep them from trapping your arm…

Bridge into them and push their back with your free hand to move them forward, continue bridging until you get to your knees and get your head out….

If they push back into you to try to maintain the position. Reverse shrimp your hips under them and grab their leg with your inside hand to roll them over to the other side and to side control bottom…