How to Escape when Pinned Down | Ground Survival

What happens when a bigger person is on top of you pinning your wrists to the ground? This is easily the number one position I get asked about at every one of my self defense seminars; both by women and men. With that said, here is a simple approach to that situation.

How to break out of Guard:

How to Escape from a Choke on the Ground:

What to do if someone is mounting you and throwing punches:

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[CombatSelfDefense]

I like how simple and applicable this drill is. Not overly complicated - something a person could practice easily

[Grimrose_]

"goddamn, you are sweaty, man" 💀💀

[ObsidianCrocodile]

I’ve had ex boyfriends do this to me and it a horrible experience, thanks for the technique 👍

[edwardcheong]

Excellent advice. Just gotta stay cool and remember the moves.

[bricky_potter]

We are training hip thrusts with this one 🗣🗣

[notme]

Thank you so much for the video! It was very helpful.

[UserX]

I want to see it reversed with the instructor, who is much bigger, doing the pinning. The smaller guy isn’t going to be able to do any of that.

[StephenSmith-ifzj]

Very cool. We teach a different escape from that hold. But I've never seen that approach. Like having options. Thanks!

[Snake-snek]

What do you do if you aren't physically strong enough to flip them over? Like say he is a lot heavier than you?

Thanks so much, this was super well explained and informative

[PowerIsWithin]

Like a game a chess literally

Seeing so many ways to advance on your next move

[crasyperson]

Author here. Can you do a video on trying to escape from this except where the defender is face down instead of face up? I didn’t see one in the self defense playlist at the time of asking.

[KennethKestner]

As someone who wrestled for 10 years the best way to learn how to escape this is to just do the new wrestling

[simonesnell]

I tried this with my much bigger friend on top and couldn’t get my elbows down or my hips up lol I’m pretty small compared to him

[craigsmith]

🤔That’ll work if the person underneath is built strong but if it’s a big person on top of a tiny person which normally happens then the tiny person should be focused on getting their knees to reach their opponent stomach area then the one on ground should have their legs now above their opponent hip area so they’ll have more control to break free using their strongest part of body which is legs. And from that position the greatest goal will be to be able to put opponent in chokehold with your legs (right leg around left side of their neck and left leg underneath their right armpit then connect your feet together then now you could turn them over. This is a good method cause if you have a big person on top of your stomach it could hinder your breathing which could cause you to panic and passout so gotta get them legs above their hips👍🏽

[RedRobertify]

What if they're pushing their bodyweight directly onto your torso though? Like if they have their knee on your solar plexus?

[MrHighRaw]

So the real question is how do you escape when pinned down AND being tickled?? 😬

[galaxyrose]

This is really good for Brazilian jujitsu as well

[pickletickler]

Thanks, this worked really well for me and my bf in the bedroom

[iasashasahu]

What ifnthe person ontop is heavy enough??

[karam]

My current bf does this to me when we fight irl n he does it so I can’t escape and he can get down into my face and scream and says and does horrible things, we’re forced to meet on Friday and if this happens I’m gonna use this so thank you 💙