Marcelo Garcia: Escaping Side Control

3 Part Lesson -- Marcelo escapes from Side-Mount: When you opponent is holding you down in Side Control with a balanced approach, i.e. they are not laying too heavily/tightly over your centerline and therefore susceptible to a Bridge Sweep/Reversal you may not be able to recover your knee(s) inside to recompose guard due to them monitoring your hip closely with their far knee in Side-Control with Underhook & Head Control (Side-Mount, Cross-Sides (Top), Cross-Face. Protect your far-arm by keeping it strong and bent as a Frame against your opponent's neck/jawline; quickly keep it safe from any variations of Arm-Lock and don't waste any time advancing your defense. Connect your hands together in a joist and rock your legs or pop a bridge to help open up enough space to turn onto your side and pummel an Under-Hook. Apply another bridge coupled with your Under-Hook to make room for a belly-down turn-over entry onto a Single. You can finish the single from your knees, drive to the far-leg for a Cowboy-Double or Barzagar, or come up with the leg and finish from standing. Stay low on your opponent's knee as you turn onto your belly and build up your base before coming up to attack your opponent's Back/Side from the Coyote-Guard/Dog-Fight Position; otherwise, you run the risk of giving up the Mount or arriving on top inside a Triangle. [04:36] Use your near-side arm to help loosen your opponent's Cross-Face (aka Shoulder-of-Justice, et al.) and also prevent your opponent from using two hands to attack your far-arm before wedging it into safety as a Frame. Meanwhile, elevate both of your knees to block an easy path from Side-Control into Mount. If your opponent is keeping heavy against your chest and preventing you from creating enough room to pummel for and Under-Hook and turn onto your side, pummel your opposite hand inside and connect your hands again in a Frame/Joist. Employ a bridge to help push up and turn yourself onto your side, pushing at their biceps and pummeling for an Under-Hook; use the Under-Hook as a jack to throw your opponent away from defending their knee from your Single-Leg Reversal. You can feed your opponent's lapel/belt through their legs to amplify your effect on coming up and finishing the Single. [08:49] Oscillate your Bridge-Escape until a dissonance is generated inside the discursive feedback loop of control for your opponent; in other words, you may need to quake back and forth, alternating between the two major directions of your Bridge-Escape to disrupt your opponent's ability to correctly track, adjust, and retain the Side-Mount Position.

[tmass]

i love how he shows the intensity in which the moves might actually work. so many tutorials show the move too slow and with not enough resistance. I like the sharpness and explosiveness he always implements

[tomsawyer]

Who else remembers that classic elbow push escape video from years ago!!? That was one of the first bjj videos that really helped me through my initial stages as a white belt getting trapped under people! I remember I hit that escape on a purple belt in a different country, and he smiled and said “ah, you’ve watched that Marcelo Garcia escape video” and we both had a chuckle.

[joseluismontes]

I appreciate that he's not using the Gi. So this works for No Gi as well.

[amirkazemi]

the guy is like...dude, I am trying to hang on lol

[viktorstromtsov]

All this for absolutely free of charge! mind blown 🤯

[app]

You can tell Marcelo's brain is working way faster than he can explain

[chefntoast]

Marcelo will go down as one of the greatest of all time

[michelpapineau]

I haven't done jiu-jitsu in 8 years, but I still love to watch the Marcelo explain all the details of jiu-jitsu techniques!!
What an awesome teacher!

[woleadu]

Never seen a coach’s belt come off demonstrating a technique. Awesome stuff.

[JonH-wj]

He teaches you how to and where to fish instead of giving you fish. Excellent instruction.

[jeremyyap]

thank you so much for this Professor. I'm really new to BJJ and I felt that there's so much details about the fundamentals that I need to learn

[alexrodriguez]

I'll take this little bit of information to today's class-wish me luck!!

[Hellsceam]

As a whit belt, this video has helped my game SO MUCH.

[josecastillo]

The guy probably had a concussion by the time marcelo was done lol.

[LeRon.Merrell]

great info. As a white belt, I am always finding myself having to figure things out from the bottom. Will be putting this to use asap!

[darrenengel]

Thank you for this ! I really struggle with side control especially bigger opponents that I face ..but the rocking back and forth I think is a game changer for me and I have you to thank for that ❤

[Vscustomprinting]

13 people are still stuck in side control

[nicolasrosario]

Thank you so much professor MG. Theseare amazing techniques 👍👍

[aarongiza]

There is a 110 kg guy in my gym, that I test all these escape on. Sometimes it works, sometimes I get crushed but I'm still perfecting.

[MRPARKERJIUJITSU]

wow Our Great Marcelo Garcia. Thank you for the video. :-)