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Position roadmap

Back control

Back control from the bottom first: how to invert out of it, what to do when they chase you, and the ankle lock waiting when they cross their feet.

Survival

Hold your toes from the inside

Legs in, hold your toes from the inside, not the outside. If mobility is a problem, lean forward as far as you can. Every escape here starts from this.

Keep looking to the safe side

Fight for your head position. If their head ends up underneath yours, you have a problem. Move the head, turn your pocket, keep moving.

Escapes

Fall to the side and invert

Choose a side, fall and invert. Exchange the feet, raise the hip and remove the control. If they are not inverting with you, there is no back control.

A Big Reset
No-Gi — The Back Escape: Invert, Shoulder Walk, Hooks In

Hook first or invert first

If clearing the hook after the inversion is hard, remove the first hook, invert, then remove the other. Either order works.

Half an inversion against the seat belt

Against the seat belt you will not get a full inversion. Half is enough to start: add the pocket turn as you fall, stay sticky, shoulder walk.

A Big Reset

Transitions

They chase: shoulder walk, hooks in

They invert with you on one hook. Stay there, remove the hook, shoulder walk, hooks in with feet inwards, sit up. You end up behind them.

Submissions

Crossed feet: step over, ankle lock

As you invert, step over their top ankle. Triangle your own foot with their ankle against your knee pit, pinch the knees, hips forward slowly.

The cross foot, the whole ankle

Fall to the side that leaves your fighting leg free, and take the cross foot. You want the entire ankle, not the toes. Ankle against ankle is bad for your own hip and knee.

Elbow in, push the knee

If hips forward is not enough, elbow in and push their knee. The hand works with the hip. It does not replace it.

Every cell here is free to read. The working notes behind them come from class, over in Mat Notes.