Escaping the sidecontrol is one of the biggest challenges any beginner faces and it’s paramount to mastering bjj or even just saying you have rudimentary skills.
Coming out of side control is no joke, especially when heavily outweighed by your opponent.
But how do you go about learning to escape a really tight side control?
Having trouble escaping from Side Control? Here’s a neat little concept that will go a long way: move their head where their body is.
That is, your opponent’s head needs to end up on the same side as their body is, it cannot remain on the opposite one.
Here’s why and how to move their head, as explained by Chad Lyman:
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