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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 Underhook Side Control uses an underhook on the far arm as the primary upper body control, with the other arm controlling the head or near hip. [1] The underhook provides strong control of the bot...

Side control is a dominant ground position where the top player lies chest-to-chest across the opponent's torso, perpendicular to their body, using a combination of crossface, underhook, and chest pre...

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 triangle choke from side control is applied by the bottom player who creates space from underneath the side control pin, threads one leg across the opponent's neck, and locks the triangle by trapp...

The Standard Side Control subfamily covers the basic lateral side control position where the top fighter lies perpendicular to the bottom fighter, using chest pressure and arm controls to maintain the...

The headscissors from side control is applied by the top player who isolates the opponent's head and threads the legs around the neck while transitioning from a side control pin. [1,2] The attacker ty...

The Jailbreak is a side control escape from the 10th Planet system where the bottom player tucks a foot between the opponent's legs to create space and prevent full side control establishment, allowin...

A classic Kata Gatame sequence begun from mount and finished from side control. The attacker sets the head-and-arm choke from mount, then “slides off” to the side while maintaining the lock. The angle...

The Bread Cutter Choke is a gi-based submission applied from side control where the attacker reaches across the opponent's neck to grip the far collar, then drives the blade edge of the forearm across...

The side headscissors applies the leg-based head squeeze from side control, where the attacker is positioned perpendicular to the supine opponent. [1] The attacker captures the opponent's head between...

The Underhook To Single Leg converts the underhook escape from side control into a single-leg takedown attempt, using the underhook to drive into the opponent and then switching the grip to attack one...

The Headlock Control subfamily covers clinch positions where the attacker wraps one arm around the opponent's head while controlling the arm on the same side, creating a secured head-and-arm clamp. [1...

The Standard Knee On Belly subfamily covers the classic knee-on-belly position where the top fighter faces the opponent's head with one knee on the belly/midsection and the other foot posted for base....

The Standard Headlock Control wraps one arm around the opponent's head from the side, securing the head against the attacker's ribcage, while the other arm controls the opponent's near arm to prevent ...

An arm triangle variation applied from S-Mount. The attacker raises one knee high beside the opponent’s head and swings the other knee across their chest, creating the “S” shape. This tightens control...

The Walk-Around Armbar is executed from side control by walking the legs around the opponent's head while maintaining arm control, transitioning into an armbar without needing to mount first. [1] This...

The north-south choke is a strangulation applied from the north-south position (kami-shiho-gatame orientation), where the attacker lies chest-to-chest on top of the opponent but facing the opposite di...

Royler's Armbar is a fast armbar transition from side control, named after Royler Gracie's signature execution. [1] The technique emphasises speed and pressure over positional establishment. [1]

The North-South family covers the top control position where the controlling fighter lies chest-to-chest with the opponent but in opposite direction — head-to-feet — creating a 180-degree orientation....

A flexion wrist lock involves forcing the hand downward toward the inner forearm (palmar flexion), applying pressure on the radiocarpal joint. Causes intense pain and injury risk.

The north-south headscissors applies the leg-based head squeeze from the north-south position, where the attacker is positioned head-to-head above the supine opponent. [1] The attacker captures the op...

The Baseball Choke is a gi-based collar choke that uses a distinctive split grip — one hand gripping the collar palm-up and the other palm-down in opposite directions — creating a powerful rotational ...

The Standard North-South subfamily covers the basic north-south control position where the top fighter lies chest-to-chest in opposite orientation, using bodyweight and arm control to pin the opponent...

The DeSouza Special is an MMA-specific technique that converts a defended double-leg takedown attempt directly into a guard pass, bypassing the intermediate step of landing in the opponent's guard. [1...

Stoner control is a half-guard control position from the 10th Planet lockdown system where the guard player triangles their legs around the opponent's trapped leg and swims an arm underneath the oppon...

The Truck Position is a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu back-body entanglement where the attacker controls the opponent from behind with a calf hook (leg threaded between the opponent's legs hooking the calf), ...

Shoulder locks are submissions that attack the glenohumeral joint (shoulder socket) by forcing the arm into extreme internal rotation, external rotation, or abduction. [1,2] The shoulder is the most m...

The Position class encompasses all distinct body configurations and spatial relationships between fighters that define the tactical landscape of grappling and striking combat. [1] Positions are the fo...

The Kimura lock (gyaku-ude-garami / double wristlock) is a shoulder lock where the attacker grips the opponent's wrist with one hand, threads the other arm under the opponent's elbow, and clasps a fig...

The Standard Lasso Guard uses a single lasso wrap on one side, with the other leg positioned as a secondary control (on the hip, bicep, or in spider guard configuration). [1] The standard single lasso...

The Standard Single Underhook threads one arm under the opponent's armpit, hooking up and around the shoulder or lat, while the other hand establishes a collar tie, wrist control, or elbow cup on the ...

The Near Side Knee On Belly positions the knee on the opponent's near side (closest to the controlling fighter) with the posted foot on the far side, creating the most common and mechanically stable k...

The One-Sleeve Spider Guard uses the spider guard on one side only — one foot on the bicep with sleeve control — while the other leg is positioned differently (on the hip, in DLR, or on the mat). [1] ...

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 ...

Pressure techniques are pain compliance methods that use focused body weight, bony prominences (knees, elbows, forearms, chin), or grinding pressure to create intense localized pain on sensitive areas...

The Goes Guard is a specific open guard configuration from MMA grappling where the bottom player hooks one leg behind the opponent's knee while controlling the same-side sleeve or wrist, creating a dy...

The Spinning Armbar to Kimura is a combination technique where a spinning armbar attempt that encounters defence transitions directly into a kimura grip. [1] Ribeiro demonstrates this chain as a funda...

The Reverse Kesa Gatame positions the controlling fighter facing the opponent's legs rather than the head, with the arm wrapping around the opponent's waist or hip area. [1] Reverse kesa gatame provid...

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 Half Mount Pass transitions from half mount (where the passer has nearly passed but one leg is still trapped) to full mount or side control. [1] Ribeiro demonstrates the knee-cross variation. [1]

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...

The mount is the most dominant ground position in grappling, where one fighter sits astride the opponent's torso with knees planted on either side, applying gravitational pressure and controlling the ...

The Loco Plata is a variant of the Go-Go Plata (Gogoplata) that attacks the opponent's throat with the shin from a modified angle, using a lateral or diagonal shin placement rather than the standard d...

The headscissors strangle uses both legs clamped around the opponent's head (without trapping an arm) to create bilateral compression on both sides of the neck. [1,2] Unlike the triangle choke, which ...

The Drop Side Kick is a sacrifice technique where the practitioner intentionally drops their body toward the ground while simultaneously thrusting a side kick at a low or mid-level target, creating an...

The Standard Kesa Gatame wraps one arm around the opponent's head, controls the near arm with the other hand, and turns the hips to face the opponent's head, with the near hip pressing against the opp...

The Arm Wrap Choke is a closed guard submission where the attacker wraps the opponent's arm across their own neck and secures a deep collar grip on the far side, creating a choking mechanism that uses...

The Kuzure Kesa Gatame (modified scarf hold) is the variation of kesa gatame where the controlling fighter underhooks the far arm instead of wrapping around the head, providing different control dynam...

The Standard Worm Guard subfamily covers the basic worm guard configuration where the guard player extracts the opponent's lapel, threads it between the opponent's legs, and grips it from the other si...