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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...

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...

The hip heist is a fundamental wrestling escape movement where the bottom wrestler flips their hips 180 degrees (from pointing down to pointing up) while simultaneously spinning the body, creating exp...

The Hip Heist is a wrestling escape technique where the bottom wrestler explosively lifts and shifts the hips to create space and reverse position — a dynamic escape that uses hip explosion to break t...

The Hip Movement Defence family covers ground-based defensive techniques that use hip displacement and rotation to create space, recover guard position, or prevent the opponent from establishing domin...

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...

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...

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...

The Hip Sprawl drives the hips backward and away from the attacker while maintaining light chest contact, creating distance between the defender's legs and the attacker's grasp. [1] The hip sprawl emp...

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...

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...

The Shrimp To Full Guard escape uses the hip escape to create enough space to swing both legs around the opponent's waist, closing the guard and establishing full guard from the mounted position. [1] ...

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...

The Standard Kipping Escape executes a sharp upward hip thrust that launches the opponent momentarily off balance, then immediately follows with a shrimp or knee insertion to recover guard before the ...

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...

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...

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...

The Standard Shrimp Recovery executes the fundamental hip escape to recover guard, where the defender turns onto one hip, bridges to create momentary space, then drives the hips away from the opponent...

The Alcatraz is a mount escape from the 10th Planet system where the bottom player frames on the opponent's hips, hip escapes to one side, uses the far-side leg to hook under the opponent's foot and e...

The Shrimp Recovery subfamily covers defensive techniques that use the shrimp (hip escape) movement to create space and recover guard position when under pressure or when the guard has been partially ...

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 ...

The Standard Shrimp To Half Guard escapes mount by hip escaping to one side and inserting the bottom knee between the fighters, catching the opponent's leg to establish half guard. [1] The defender fr...

The Sit-Out Escape family covers turtle escapes where the turtled fighter sits the hips out to one side, rotating the body to face the opponent and create a more favourable position. [1] Sit-out escap...

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]...

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...

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...

The Peel And Rotate escape combines grip stripping with rotational hip movement to escape back control while defending the choke. [1] The defender peels the attacker's choking arm by gripping the wris...

The Standard Frame And Shrimp pushes both forearms against the opponent's knee on the belly, creates a momentary space through the frame, then hip escapes away from the knee while swinging the far leg...

The Guard Retention group encompasses all defensive techniques used on the ground to maintain or recover a guard position, preventing the opponent from passing to a dominant position. [1] Guard retent...

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...

The Inverted Guard is an advanced guard position where the bottom player inverts (goes upside down on their shoulders/upper back) to create angles for guard retention, sweeps, and back takes — a high-...

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 ...

The Roll Armbar Escape subfamily covers escapes that use a forward or lateral roll to extract the trapped arm from the armbar, using rotational momentum to overcome the attacker's grip and hip control...

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...

The Standard Switch executes the wrestling escape from turtle by sitting the hips to one side while simultaneously switching the direction of the body, using the hip motion and direction change to bre...

The Standard Sit-Out subfamily covers the fundamental turtle escape where the turtled fighter sits the hips out to one side, rotating to face the opponent from a defensive seated or guard position. [1...

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...

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...

The Standard Shoulder Walk alternates pressing each shoulder into the mat and sliding the body downward, using the shoulder as a pivot point while the hips shift incrementally toward the escape direct...

The Grapevine Mount uses the legs to hook inside the opponent's legs (like grapevines wrapping around a post), spreading the legs apart to flatten the opponent and prevent bridging. [1] The grapevine ...

The Standard Hip Bump executes the sweep by sitting up explosively from closed guard, wrapping an overhook around the opponent's arm on one side, then driving the hips forward into the opponent's ches...

The Standard Frame And Reguard places the inside forearm across the opponent's throat or collar bone and the outside hand on the opponent's hip, creating a two-point frame that generates space. [1] Th...

The Fundamental Side Control family covers the core side control variations and techniques for maintaining chest-to-chest control, attacking with submissions, and transitioning to more dominant positi...

The cross collar choke from body triangle combines the powerful hip control of the body triangle with a cross-grip lapel strangle from behind. [1,2] The body triangle locks the attacker's legs around ...

The cradle neck crank from side control is applied by the top player who locks a cradle grip — connecting the hands behind the opponent's head and under one leg — from the side control position, then ...

The cross collar choke from mount uses the dominant mount position to apply a crossed-grip lapel strangle with gravity-assisted pressure. [1,2] From mount, the attacker feeds both hands deep into the ...

The Double Under-the-Legs Defense to Sweep converts a defensive position (when the opponent has both legs stacked) into an offensive sweep by timing a hip escape and roll. [1]

The Two On One Hand Fighting escape uses both hands to control the attacker's choking arm, creating a two-against-one advantage on the most dangerous arm while working to clear hooks and turn. [1] The...

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 ...

The Standard Sit-Out Technique executes the fundamental sit-out escape by kicking the hips out to one side from the turtle position, rotating the body to face the opponent while landing on the hip or ...