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Desperation EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Desperation Escape is a high-energy, explosive escape used when standard technical escapes have failed and the fighter is in immediate danger of being finished — a last-resort survival technique t...

Hip Out Mount EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Hip Out Mount Escape is the fundamental technique for recovering guard from the bottom of mount position, combining a hip escape (shrimp) with an elbow-knee connection that inserts the knee betwee...

Side Control EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Side Control Escape family within the Bottom Escape group covers the fundamental techniques for escaping from underneath side control — the most commonly encountered bad position in BJJ and the po...

Running Up the Cage Mount EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Running Up the Cage Mount Escape is an MMA-specific technique that uses the cage wall as a physical prop to generate the hip bridge needed to escape mount when the defender is flat on their back n...

Hip Escape Side ControlSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Hip Escape Side Control subfamily covers side control escapes that primarily use the hip escape (shrimp) movement to create the lateral space needed to reinsert the legs and recover guard. [1] The...

Side Control EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Side Control Escape family within the Submission Escape group covers techniques for escaping submission attempts that are initiated from the side control position — combining submission defence wi...

Wrestling Bottom EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Wrestling Bottom Escape family covers escape techniques from the wrestling bottom (referee's) position — the on-hands-and-knees starting position used in folkstyle wrestling where one wrestler is ...

Position EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

Position Escape covers techniques for escaping from specialised control positions that don't fit within the standard mount, side control, or back escape categories — addressing unique positional chall...

10th Planet EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The 10th Planet Escape family covers escape techniques for positions unique to Eddie Bravo's 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system — addressing the specific challenge of escaping the Truck, Twister Side Contro...

Guantanamo EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Guantanamo Escape is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu technique for recovering half guard from the mounted position, using a specific hip movement combined with knee insertion that differs from the standar...

MMA EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The MMA Escape family covers escape techniques specifically adapted for mixed martial arts competition, where the threat of ground-and-pound strikes fundamentally changes the mechanics, urgency, and p...

Hand Fighting EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Hand Fighting Escape subfamily covers back escape techniques that prioritise defending against the choke through hand fighting while systematically working to clear hooks and turn to face the oppo...

Bottom EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

Bottom Escape covers all techniques for escaping inferior bottom positions where the opponent has established dominant top control — the defensive survival skills that keep a fighter in the fight afte...

Body Triangle EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Body Triangle Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping when the opponent has secured back control with a body triangle — legs locked in a figure-four around the defender's torso rather than...

Ghost EscapegenusEscape and Reversal

The Ghost Escape is a dynamic side control escape where the defender slides underneath the opponent by performing a sharp hip escape combined with a body-flattening motion that allows them to slip out...

Shrimp Mount EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Shrimp Mount Escape subfamily covers mount escapes that use the hip escape (shrimp) movement to create space and recover guard from the mounted position. [1] The shrimp mount escape is the most co...

Kneebar EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Kneebar Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the kneebar (hiza-juji-gatame), where the attacker hyperextends the knee joint by controlling the leg and applying hip pressure against the ...

Mount EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Mount Escape family within the Back Escape group covers techniques for escaping when the opponent achieves mount from a back-control transition — addressing the specific challenge of an opponent w...

Pin EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

Pin Escape covers techniques for escaping from wrestling pins and holds where the opponent controls you against the mat with your shoulders exposed — a critical survival skill in folk, freestyle, and ...

Submission EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

The Submission Escape group encompasses all techniques for escaping submission attempts — joint locks, chokes, and compression holds — that have been initiated but not yet fully secured. [1] Submissio...

Back EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

The Back Escape group encompasses all techniques for escaping when an opponent has achieved back control — one of the most dominant and dangerous positions in grappling. [1] Back control gives the att...

Guillotine EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Guillotine Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the guillotine choke (mae-hadaka-jime), a front headlock strangulation applied from standing or guard position. [1] Guillotine escapes mu...

Underhook Side Control EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Underhook Side Control Escape subfamily covers escapes where the defender establishes an underhook on the near side from bottom side control, then uses the underhook to create a frame and generate...

Ankle Lock EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Ankle Lock Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the straight ankle lock (ashi-gatame), where the attacker hyperextends the ankle joint by controlling the foot against the wrist or forea...

Rear Mount EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Rear Mount Escape family covers all techniques for escaping back control when the opponent has established hooks (feet inside the defender's thighs) or a body triangle from behind. [1] Rear mount ...

Mount EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Mount Escape family covers all techniques for escaping the mount position, where the opponent sits on top of the defender's torso with legs straddling the body. [1] Mount is one of the most domina...

Kipping EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Kipping Escape subfamily covers mount escape techniques that use a sharp hip thrust (kip) to explosively create space, disrupting the opponent's base and enabling escape or reversal. [1] The kippi...

Heel Hook EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Heel Hook Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the heel hook, one of the most dangerous submissions in grappling due to its ability to cause catastrophic knee ligament damage with minim...

Fundamental Pin EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Fundamental Pin Escape family covers the core techniques for escaping wrestling pins and judo hold-downs — the essential survival skills that prevent a loss by fall in wrestling or ippon by osaeko...

Seatbelt EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Seatbelt Escape family covers techniques for breaking the seatbelt grip (over-under arm control from behind) — the most critical first step in any back escape, because the seatbelt grip enables th...

Triangle EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Triangle Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the sankaku-jime (triangle choke), where the attacker uses the legs to form a triangle around the defender's head and one arm, creating a s...

RNC EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The RNC Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping the rear naked choke (hadaka-jime), the most dangerous and highest-finishing submission in grappling and MMA. [1] RNC escapes must be initiated ...

Standard Body Triangle EscapegenusEscape and Reversal

The Standard Body Triangle Escape addresses the body triangle lock by turning into the locked side (toward the leg on top of the triangle), then using hip pressure and leg positioning to pry the trian...

Running EscapegenusEscape and Reversal

The Running Escape uses a continuous, rapid shrimping motion that mimics a running movement to create maximum distance from the opponent and recover guard. [1] The defender performs rapid alternating ...

Heel Drag EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Heel Drag Escape subfamily covers mount escape techniques where the defender uses one foot to hook and drag the opponent's ankle, creating enough space to insert the knee and transition to half gu...

Hitchhiker Armbar EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Hitchhiker Armbar Escape subfamily covers escapes that use a hitchhiker-like thumb-up rotation of the trapped arm to change the angle of the hyperextension and create space to pull the arm free. [...

Frame And Shrimp KOB EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Frame And Shrimp KOB Escape uses a combination of arm framing against the opponent's knee and hip escape (shrimp) movement to create distance and recover guard from the knee-on-belly position. [1]...

Scoot And Turn EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Scoot And Turn Escape subfamily covers back escape techniques where the defender slides the hips downward and sideways while turning to face the attacker, using the scooting motion to create the s...

Leg Over Kesa EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Leg Over Kesa Escape subfamily covers the kesa gatame escape where the defender threads the far leg over the opponent's head, using the leg as a lever to pry the opponent off and create a reversal...

Standard Shrimp EscapegenusEscape and Reversal

The Standard Shrimp Escape from north-south frames against the opponent's hips, bridges to create space, then hip escapes to one side, turning the body to create enough angle to reinsert a knee and re...

Shoulder Walk EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Shoulder Walk Escape subfamily covers back escape techniques where the defender walks the shoulders along the mat, sliding downward and out of the attacker's back control by incrementally shifting...

Escape Against Wrestler's PinSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Escape Against Wrestler's Pin addresses the specific problem of being pinned by a wrestler who uses cross-face and underhook control rather than traditional BJJ side control grips. [1] Ribeiro dem...

Shrimp North-South EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Shrimp North-South Escape uses hip escape movement to create enough angle and distance to recover guard from the north-south position. [1] The shrimp from north-south is more challenging than from...

Armbar EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Armbar Escape family covers all techniques for escaping the juji-gatame (cross-body armbar) and its variants once the attack has been initiated. [1] The armbar is one of the most common and highes...

Kesa Gatame EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Kesa Gatame Escape family covers techniques for escaping the kesa gatame (scarf hold) position, where the opponent controls from the side with one arm wrapped around the defender's head and the ot...

Choke EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Choke Escape family covers all techniques for escaping choke and strangulation submissions once they have been initiated. [1] Choke escapes are among the most urgent defensive techniques in grappl...

Leglock EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Leglock Escape family covers all techniques for escaping leg-based joint locks and compression holds, including ankle locks, heel hooks, kneebars, and toe holds. [1] Leglock escapes have become on...

Knee On Belly EscapefamilyEscape and Reversal

The Knee On Belly Escape family covers techniques for escaping the knee-on-belly (or knee-on-stomach) position, where the opponent places one knee on the defender's midsection with the other leg poste...

Turtle EscapegroupEscape and Reversal

The Turtle Escape group encompasses all techniques for escaping the turtle position — the defensive curled-up posture on hands and knees where a grappler protects against attacks from the opponent on ...

Jailbreak EscapeSub-FamilyEscape and Reversal

The Jailbreak Escape is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu escape technique from side control — a specific escape method developed within Eddie Bravo's system for escaping side control using the 10th Planet posi...