Submission Escapes

Submissions and Escapes

Arm Bar Escape 1 - Inside Closed Guard

1. Attacked arm triangle inside other arm.

2. Other arm scoops inside their leg.

3. Shelf them onto your back knee

4. Inside hand moves from the thigh to grab their foot and open them up.

Arm Bar Escape 2 - Supported Grip

1. Supporting arm hand weaves under their leg

2. Keep your feet away from them, but if they control near side leg, use far side leg to step into their bicep and free the foot.

3. Raise their leg off your head with high elbow raise and push

4. Pendulum legs and rotate feet around so you are parallel

5. Bring threatened elbow to the mat

Arm Bar Escape 1 - Inside Closed Guard

1. Attacked arm triangle inside other arm.

2. Other arm scoops inside their leg.

3. Shelf them onto your back knee

4. Inside hand moves from the thigh to grab their foot and open them up.

Arm Bar Escape 2 - Supported Grip

1. Supporting arm hand weaves under their leg

2. Keep your feet away from them, but if they control near side leg, use far side leg to step into their bicep and free the foot.

3. Raise their leg off your head with high elbow raise and push

4. Pendulum legs and rotate feet around so you are parallel

5. Bring threatened elbow to the mat

Arm Bar Escape 2B - Shoulder Drop Variations

Variation 1: During Pendulum - Their shoulder comes down to the mat, your hands remain connected.

1. Scissor back leg over leg nearest to them to recover your base.

2. If you have a loose grip, reestablish a supported grip and weave hand in for the closed guard arm bar escape 1.

Variation 2: On Pendulum, either the Arms disconnect or they fall to the head side - Hitchhiker escape

1. Thumb toward the head side.

2. Come up on far side elbow.

3. Free hand pushes the feet down.

4. Walk feet around, step foot over to base

Arm Bar Escape 3 - Loose Grip Vs Uncrossed Feet

Spider Controlled - Their Feet are uncrossed and you have a loose arm configuration (S or Gable)

1. Your outside elbow slides under their ankle. If the foot is too tight, do a hip bridge up to create a bit of space.

2. Pull your knee back over their leg. Then, using your elbow to knee connection slide their leg over your shin.

3. Use your inside leg to come down on top of their leg to trap it.

4. Pendulum knees in as you pull your elbow to the mat.

Arm Bar Escape 5 - Loose Grip Vs Crossed Feet

Spider controlled with crossed feet over your loose grip (S or Gable)

1. To buy a second or two, pull back your knees and use your inside (threatened) hand to disconnect and switch to grab the inside of thigh at the knee pit. Clamp down your leg.

2. Outside hand pummels your hand under their knee on the head.

3. Hitchhiker and pull elbow to mat

Arm Bar Escape 6 - Scythe Arm Bar

1. Pendulum legs sideways to try to pop your head out from under the leg.

2. Immediately Hard push off with inside foot to rotate belly down into the far side hitchhiker

Arm Bar Escape 7 - Belly Down

1. Outside foot steps up.

2. Head comes over the tailbone

3. Drive into them to take the weight off, so you can turn your thumb toward your head

4. Circle around

*if you move early it works well

Kimura Escape 1 - Dolphin

1. Grab their top wrist with your free hand

2. Scissor your legs to rotate your hips against the direction of the attack to get all the way to your base.

3. They will drive and roll you back down. As they drive into you, roll with it and drive your attacked arm’s elbow into the mat

4. Continuing the motion, pendulum your legs around in a circle and free your hands as you come to your base on the other side.

Kimura Escape 2 - Side Control

Knee Insertion Escape

1. Shrimp into them and do an arm extension with the attacked arm to extend them away from you

2. Slide you shin inside of their arm, either under their elbow or behind it.

3. Break the grip

4. Push the head away for side control Triangle

Variation: If you can’t knee insert

1. Bridge hips up

2. Swim free arm to under their body

3. Walk feet around

Kimura escape 3 - Closed Guard Top

Early response

1. Heat post behind the shoulder.

2. Free arm far side wrist control

3. tripod and walk to the back

Late Response

1. Step over your hand, hand goes in the knee pit. Recover base

2. Free hand post on the far hip

Kimura Escape 4 - Half Guard Top

Late Option - kneel on their bicep and free your arm by extending from the shoulder, then crossface them

Early Option - Use free hand to grab their hand, pull up with a yo ho ho to counter kimura them

T Kimura Escape

1. Drive yourself on top of them

2. Feed your leg through

Guillotine (Arm In) - Inside Closed Guard

1. Head raise - left hand grab forehead smh. Look into the body. Tripod hips up.

2. Opposite hand feed into the gap between their arm and body.

3. Grab their belt line or thigh pants and pinch elbow back to take pressure off

4. Drop hips and pop head out

Guillotine Escapes - Standing or Early

1. Before they sit back just hand fight. Once they try to sit back, Hands on the hips

2. Left shoulder roll escape

3. Make sure to do a hard pendulum at the end and finish with your head fully rotated into them

4. Come all the way around to the far side side control

Arm in - tripod up, walk feet around, then roll through

Darce Choke Escape - North South Turtle

From Turtle

1. Thumb post.

2. Bring elbow down inside their elbow.

3. Elbow flare kipping out to extract their arm.

From the Roll

1. Defend the choke with thumb post into their wrist from same side as choking arm

2. Other arm posts on the elbow

3. Push down the elbow and push up the wrist

Darce from Bottom Half Guard

1. Head back

2. Capture the hand with top hand

3. Knee Lever Sweep

Anaconda Choke Escape - North South Turtle

1. Far side thumb post

2. Elbow comes inside their elbow and drives back in Kipling motion to break grip

3. Grab the arm to control

Head & Arm Choke Escape

Assuming they are attacking your right arm side

1. Left hand Hold the Phone - If needed, use opposite hand to push their head away to slide your arm in.

2. Feet to the sky, then Pendulum legs away and reach over the shoulder with right hand to grab their lat.

3. Right hand insert the thumb post into the choking arm elbow and rotate back into them.

4. Recover arm by swimming it around their head

North South Choke Escape

1. Pendulum legs into the choke

2. Come up to your knees as you turn into them

Triangle Escape - Closed Guard

Escape 1

1. Sit back with clearance between your hips and theirs - try to sit away from them

2. Cross feet over their front

3. Hug the choking leg and pull back

Escape 2

1. Outside arm grabs top knee

2. Look in, then turn out and rotate out to break

Mounted Triangle Escape

1. Shrimp away from outside leg, then push into the knee

2. Get your bottom knee as a wedge inside their outside foot, your other foot comes over top and contains the leg

3. Extend their leg away

Option 2 is pendelum to a closed guard triangle roll to do basic escapes

Mounted triangle escape

1. Pendulum legs away

2. Insert knee wedge inside their knee line to break the triangle

3. Use your legs to drive their top leg away and extend it out

Rear triangle escape (to be updated)

Free hand comes under their leg to try to open it up and hitchhiker out

Crucifix escapes (to be updated)

1. Head inside

2. Head over the back and roll over

Mothers milk escape

1. get frames under the head and wedge the head back

Other escapes

1. Buggy choke

2. Cross collar choke

3. Ezequiel

4. Simple choke from back

5. Bow and arrow choke

6. Clock choke

Straight ankle escape - Ashi garami

Heel hook escape ashi

Heel Hook Escape - Outside Ashi

Knee Bar Escape