This week has been about working on escaping back control at Martial Arts Planet. I have been reading and watching video on the subject.
So far, the best wisdom came from Sheldon: “Don’t let them take your back in the first place”.
BUT…If you get there then I like Rebecca’s approach: Control the choking arm with two hands. Pinch the “not choking” arm so they don’t switch sides. IMMEDIATELY drive your head backwards over their shoulder to the floor on the non-choking side. Shrimp your back to the floor. Control the knee that is coming over for mount, go to to your knees, grab side control.
My biggest issue is not going to my knees fast / soon enough in almost all situations. Rebecca’s method of tucking in her arm as she goes to her knees needs to be drilled.
That said, I continue to read about posture from Cane Prevost’s blog. This is job one. I keep missing key details though and go back to pick them up after I get 9/10′s of the posture right and then just miss the position when I am rolling. trial and error – refine – trial and error.
I have had minor success with getting Lockdown / Jaws of Life / Whip up / Old School but then I stall in side control because I can’t figure out a sub from there without losing control. The Blue belts know to hide the leg so lockdown doesn’t happen.
Rubber guard works on white belts who don’t know it but I only have the progression to Jiu Claw figured out so that is somewhat limited right now. Half the time I’ll get the omoplata, the other half they roll and I get side control. Then of course, I stall again. I also need to realize I don’t need to sit up out of Jiu Claw right away and can control the roll by holding down their feet with my free arm.
