When you are in the bottom of side control, one of the most important things you need to do as fast as possible is to frame your opponent's hips and head control.
Once you do this, you can create a little space and start to walk away from them. This will create an empty space between you and your opponent. Fill the space by bringing your bottom knee in contact with your bottom elbow, at which point you can connect against your opponent's hip and extend your upper body creating distance between you and them. Finally, establish a solid open or close guard position. If you wish to train at DS Team Jiujitsu in Auckland, New Zealand, find out more at https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
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Side control is one of the strongest positions you can be in because of how much pressure you can put on your opponent, as well as the opportunity to launch a series of attacks.
In this video Sensei Douglas Santos starts by explaining some details about the position, and how your upper body, arms, hip and legs should be working to establish a solid dominant position.
Once you are in a classic side control you can use your opponent's lapel and pass it around below their head, feeding it to the hand you were using for the underhook.
From here, you can switch into a Knee on Belly control. If they don't defend you can quickly finish with a cross choke. When they defend the choke, you can put pressure and roll forward. You will end up creating an incredible amount of pressure in your opponent's neck as long as you kept a steady grip on the lapel.
When your opponent frames against your neck or face with their far arm, sometimes they will make the mistake of extending the arm. If they do this, you have an opportunity to attack it.
Wrap the arm with your far arm as you switch your legs position and shift your hips away from your opponent. You will end up with their arm under your armpit, make sure their thumb is pointing to the ground and you'll be in a good position to finish the armlock by applying downward force from your armpit, and upwards force from your forearm or hand.
If your opponent turns their hand and you cannot find the right angle to finish the straight armlock, you can switch your grips into an Americana hold.
Once your grips are in the right place, turn your hips towards your opponent and drive their arm back into the other side of their upper body. Finally, apply pressure and finish the Americana lock until they tap. If you are in Auckland, New Zealand, and you want totrain at DS Team Jiujitsu, contact us for more information.
The lasso guard is very powerful and allows you to control your opponent and offers many sweep opportunities.
In this video Sensei Douglas Santos shows how to force your opponent to take both knees on the ground, and then create the right setup to sweep them. Pay attention to the position of feet, grips, hip alignment and weight distribution. Now, let's look at some variations that may happen:
We start with a short De La Riva and a Lasso Guard. This provides a great opportunity to sweep your opponent and attack the foot, the leg, or progress to a dominant top position.
However, if your opponent creates a good base and you are not able to sweep them, you can let go of the De La Riva hook, place your leg inside, undertook their leg and spin around, which will find you in a perfect position to attack with an omoplata. If you find the omoplata hard to finish, you can shift your hip alignment and attack their arm with a straight armlock. If you are in Auckland, New Zealand and you want to find out more about training at DS Team Jiujitsu, find out more information at https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
Variation 1:
Break your opponent's posture and attack their neck with a choke. This forces them to use their hands to defend the neck. At this point, place your left foot on their hip (if you are attacking their right arm) and push your thigh inwards against their elbow. Keep enough pressure to ensure that they can't pull their arm back to safety. Now using the left foot to pivot, shift your hip's angle and use your right leg to push down on their upper body. All you need to do now is pass the left leg over their head and finish the armbar. Tips:
Variation 2: Get a single grip on their sleeve. This doesn't feel threatening to your opponent. Next, use your free hand to push outwards on their knee, and then scoop around their leg as you start shifting your angle. As you do this, make sure you don't lose your original single grip. If your opponent doesn't react using their free arm to base, they will get swept. If this is the case, just finish the sweep and you'll be on the mount. If they do base, you have everything you need to complete the armbar. Just pass your left leg over their head and complete the armlock. Armlock From Closed Guard Using the "Two One" Grip
The "Two One Grip" is very powerful and it creates a good setup to drag your opponent's arm across when they are in your closed guard.
If you are right handed, your right hand will grab your opponent's right hand's sleeve, and your left hand will grab under their right armpit. You can use this setup to drag their arm across and start your armlock attack. Place your left foot on your opponent's hip, making it impossible for your opponent to bring their arm back to a safe position. Then shift your angle using your left foot to pivot, and with your right leg push down to keep their posture broken. Finally, pass your left leg over their head and finish the armlock. Armlock Defense: Padlock, Stacking & Pressure
Being trapped in someone's closed guard is a dangerous place to be.
Things get worse if your opponent breaks your posture and initiates an armlock attack. As soon as your opponent has an effective armlock setup, you have very little time to act. The most urgent thing is to use your free arm and place it underneath your trapped arm. The next step is to start stacking, and as you do this keep bringing your free arm towards you forming a padlock, and ideally placing your free arm's hand behind your opponent's leg. If you manage to place your hand here, you are temporarily safe, but it's important to keep the stacking pressure to keep improving your position, and place your knee behind their back as you keep stacking and mounting pressure on them. Once your opponent is dealing with a lot of your pressure, you'll feel safe to pull your trapped arm out. At which point you are free to pull from their lapel and establish a strong side control. Countering The Padlock Armlock Defense Attacking The Free Arm
The padlock defense to the armbar from closed guard is very effective. However, the beauty about Jiujitsu is that there's always a counter to your opponent's counter.
(For the purpose of this technique description we'll assume that you attacked your opponent's right arm originally) Once your opponent places their left arm to set up the padlock, use your hands to "scoop" the left arm, which is on the outside of the padlock and therefore available for you to control. Then use your right foot to step on their hip, and shift your hip position and angle by escaping the hip (pay attention to the details in the video). As you shift your hip positioning, your left shin will end up in a new position, across your opponent's neck. Ensuring you have control of the trapped arm (their left arm now, not the right arm anymore) you will now pass your right leg over their head and push down. You can now apply pressure and finish the armlock. The positioning of your legs may seem a bit awkward at first sight but it's a very strong control and armlock. If you are in Auckland, New Zealand and you want to find out more about training at DS Team Jiujitsu, find out more information at https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz SHOW LESS
When inside someone's close guard, keeping a good posture is a must.
As long as you keep a good posture, your opponent's doesn't have clear access to choke you. They need to break your posture in order to choke you. Developing good posture skills is a necessary step of your Jiu Jitsu development. Pay attention to the positioning of your knees, alignment of your spine, weight distribution, and effectively using your arms as frames to control your posture. If you want to find out more about training at DS Team in Auckland, New Zealand, visit https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
Good posture is everything when you are inside your opponent's closed guard.
In this video Sensei Douglas Santos explains critical concepts about defending yourself from chokes using good posture and framing. Good posture is also essential in opening the guard using the 45 degrees. If you want to find out more about training at DS Team in Auckland, New Zealand, visit https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
It starts with breaking your opponent's posture.
In this case we are going to focus on using their own Gi to control their posture. Using the lapel to control their posture, we are going to turn into a side guard and place the far foot on their hip and extend your upper body away from your opponent. At this point, it seems as if the obvious choice is to attack with an omoplata. However, we are going to focus on other options. Without losing the grip we are going to pass the close leg over their head, forcing them to roll forward. Finally, we can finish with a choke using our legs, or attacking their shoulder by controlling their elbow. If you want to find out more about training at DS Team in Auckland, New Zealand, visit https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
Use the power grip to break your opponent's posture and establish a deep grip with your strong hand.
This is a good point from which to push through with your hand, change angles and use your free hand over your opponent's shoulder to complete the choke. However, sometimes this is not possible due to your opponent's defence. So this is an alternative choke option that you can use. Use your free hand over their head to control their posture and grab your own forearm. The simply complete the choke by applying pressure with your own forearms. Pay attention to the details as explained by Sensei Douglas Santos to understand how this choke works. If you want to find out more about training at DS Team in Auckland, New Zealand, visit https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
When you are passing someone's guard, one of the main concepts you need to understand is that the power comes from your hips. If you bend down with ab broken posture, you become an easy target for a sweep.
When you posture up, make a base and drive forward with your hips, you start putting pressure and this creates an opportunity for the leg drag. In the video Sensei Douglas Santos demonstrates this with a lot of detail. When you land your knee on the mat, grab your opponent's collar to secure control. From there it's easy to maintain control, using your free hand to initiate a choke, put pressure on their legs, and step back to complete the pass. If you want to find out more about training at DS Team in Auckland, New Zealand, visit https://www.dsteamjiujitsu.co.nz
The technique starts with a hand on the collar, foot on the hip and sleeve grip. As you sit back, you place your free foot on your opponent's bicep, and switch your other foot (that was on their hip) into a short reverse De La Riva.
Next, your right hand switches from the collar grip, into holding your opponent's pants. Once you have this setup, you move your left foot (that was placed on your opponent's bicep) and place it against the hip, toes facing in. Now all you need to do is push to complete the sweep. When the sweep is completed, you can finish with a foot lock or transition into an armbar. |