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The Shoulder Roll (Philly Shell) subfamily covers the defensive stance and technique where the fighter turns the lead shoulder upward to deflect punches off the shoulder while simultaneously rolling t...

The Crucifix Roll subfamily covers escape techniques that use a rolling motion to disrupt the crucifix position, using the momentum of the roll to free the trapped arms and reverse or escape the posit...

A kata gatame variation against turtle where the choke is secured before rolling the defender over to complete the finish. The attacker threads to trap the arm across the neck, locks the head-and-arm,...

Rolling Sacrifice, or Makikomi Waza, is the family of sacrifice throws in which tori wraps their body around uke and rolls through the throw, using rotational momentum and body-weight entanglement to ...

Rolling Entry takedowns are techniques where the attacker uses a forward or lateral roll to rapidly close distance and enter into leg entanglements, takedowns, or submission positions — sacrificing st...

The Snap Roll subfamily covers quick, explosive rolling escapes from turtle that use a snapping rotational motion to create separation from the opponent and transition to a guard or standing position....

The Roll Escape family covers turtle escapes that use rolling mechanics to reverse the position, moving the turtled fighter from a bottom defensive position to a more favourable one through rotational...

The Granby Roll is a dynamic wrestling escape from the turtle position where the bottom fighter rolls over their shoulder to invert, escape the opponent's top control, and recover guard or create a sc...

The Standard Snap Roll executes a quick lateral roll from turtle, tucking the shoulder and rolling explosively to the side to create separation and immediately transition to a guard position or stand ...

The Imanari Roll is a rolling leg lock entry named after Japanese MMA fighter Masakazu Imanari — a forward shoulder roll from standing that threads the legs around the opponent's lead leg, landing dir...

The anaconda choke from front headlock with gator roll entry uses a rolling transition to tighten the head-and-arm strangle while repositioning the opponent from their knees to their side. [1] The att...

The anaconda choke from turtle with gator roll uses the signature rolling transition to attack an opponent in the turtle position. [1] The attacker positions to the side of the turtled opponent, threa...

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...

The Standard Granby Roll executes the fundamental shoulder roll escape from turtle by tucking the chin, dropping the shoulder, and rolling over the shoulder and back to emerge facing the opponent in a...

The Trap and Roll (also known as Upa or Bridge and Roll) is the most fundamental mount escape in BJJ — the bottom fighter traps one of the mounted opponent's arms and the same-side foot, then bridges ...

The Peterson Roll subfamily covers the wrestling-derived turtle escape where the bottom fighter reaches across, hooks the opponent's far arm, and rolls over the shoulder to reverse the position. [1] N...

The Standard Crucifix Roll executes the fundamental crucifix escape by bridging explosively and rolling toward the side where the arm is trapped by the opponent's legs, using the rolling momentum to d...

The Standard Peterson Roll executes the wrestling reversal by hooking the opponent's far arm from the turtle position, then rolling over the shoulder on the hooked-arm side to reverse the position and...

The Standard Roll Escape executes a forward roll over the attacker's body, using the rotational momentum to pull the trapped arm through the armbar position and free it. [1] The defender drives forwar...

Gator-roll wraps combine a front headlock choke grip with a rolling motion (the 'gator roll') to take the opponent to the ground while maintaining choking pressure. [1] The anaconda choke is the defin...

The Bridge And Roll Side Control subfamily covers side control escapes where the defender bridges explosively and rolls the opponent over, reversing from bottom to top position. [1] The bridge and rol...

The Imanari roll is a rolling entry into leg entanglement positions, developed by Japanese MMA fighter Masakazu Imanari around 1998-1999. [1] The attacker grips the opponent's ankle, drops onto their ...

The Standard Shoulder Roll executes the fundamental shoulder roll defence by raising the lead shoulder to chin height and rotating the torso away from the incoming punch, allowing the strike to deflec...

The Bridge And Roll Kesa subfamily covers the escape from kesa gatame where the defender bridges explosively toward the opponent and rolls them over, using the opponent's headlock grip against them by...

The Shoulder Roll Defence is a boxing defensive posture where the lead shoulder is raised high to protect the chin, the lead arm hangs low across the body, and the rear hand is held tight against the ...

The Peterson Roll is a wrestling reversal executed from the bottom referee's position (or any time the opponent has rear control with one or both arms across the body) where the bottom wrestler reache...

The Reverse Roll Sweep uses a backward rolling motion from sit-up guard to take the opponent over, using momentum rather than strength. [1]

The Standard Bridge And Roll from side control bridges the hips explosively while turning into the opponent, using the bridge momentum and body rotation to tip the opponent over. [1] The defender time...

The Standard Bridge And Roll Kesa executes the fundamental kesa gatame escape by trapping the opponent's far arm, bridging explosively toward the opponent's head, and rolling them over the bridge. [1]...

The Dempsey Roll is an aggressive bob-and-weave variation named after heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, characterised by a continuous figure-eight head movement pattern combined with alternating hook...

From standing backpack control the attacker secures cross-lapel grips and uses a controlled roll or spin (often dropping level and rotating around the opponent) to increase rotational torque and finis...

Koshi Nage is the aikido hip throw — distinct from judo's koshi-waza in that the entire body, not just the hip, serves as the throwing axis. [1,2] In aikido koshi-nage, the thrower turns deeply under ...

The Standard Upa (trap and roll) traps the opponent's wrist and hooks the same-side ankle with the foot, then bridges explosively by driving the hips toward the ceiling while turning to the trapped si...

Harai Makikomi is a rolling sacrifice variation of harai goshi (sweeping hip throw) in which tori executes the sweeping hip action but continues to roll through, wrapping uke tightly and using tori's ...

The Standard Inversion Recovery executes the fundamental guard recovery inversion where the defender rolls onto the upper back, elevates the hips overhead, and uses the momentum to bring the legs back...

The Leg Lock Entry family covers techniques for entering leg entanglement positions (ashi garami) from standing — primarily through rolling entries, sit-outs, and guard-pull-to-leg-lock transitions th...

The anaconda choke from turtle targets an opponent in the turtle position by the attacker threading the choking arm around the neck and under the far-side arm from a front-facing or side-facing angle,...

The anaconda choke from front headlock is applied by threading the attacking arm under the opponent's far-side arm and across the near side of the neck, then locking a figure-four grip and performing ...

The anaconda choke from front headlock with hip-walk finish uses a slow, grinding hip-walking motion to tighten the strangle rather than a rolling transition. [1] After establishing the anaconda arm w...

The Inversion Recovery subfamily covers defensive techniques where the fighter inverts their body (rolling onto the upper back/shoulders with hips elevated) to recover guard position when the guard ha...

The Standard Inversion Escape from north-south bridges the hips upward, rolls onto the upper back, and swings the legs over the body to hook around the opponent, recovering guard through the inversion...

The Half Upa is a variation of the trap and roll where the defender traps only the opponent's arm (without trapping the foot) and bridges to create enough disruption to transition to a shrimp or regua...

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 ...

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 ...

Soto Makikomi is an outer winding throw in which tori wraps their arm over and around uke's arm and upper body from the outside, then drops and rolls laterally to bring uke crashing to the mat. [1,2] ...

Uchi Makikomi is an inner winding throw in which tori wraps their arm around uke's body from the inside — threading the arm under uke's armpit — and then drops into a rolling sacrifice to bring uke to...

The anaconda choke is a front headlock arm triangle where the attacker threads one arm around the opponent's neck, under the far armpit, and locks a figure-four grip to create bilateral carotid compre...

The Standard Hitchhiker executes the armbar escape by pointing the thumb of the trapped arm upward (the hitchhiker position), then rotating the entire body in the direction the thumb is pointing. [1] ...

The Hitchhiker Defence subfamily covers the armbar escape technique where the defender rotates in the direction of the thumb (like a hitchhiking motion), turning the body to relieve the hyperextension...

The Double Shift Punch is a footwork-punch combination where the boxer switches stance mid-combination by stepping the rear foot forward past the lead foot, allowing power punches from both sides in r...