This video I overview the key aspects of a strong side control. I focus primarily on the key principle of using your chest weight to pin your opponents shoulders to the mat. Not only does this have a huge effect in side control but in all pinning positions in general strong chest pressure is so powerful.

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0:00 Core Goal of Side and Common Mistakes
1:10 Chest Pinning Mechanic
2:25 Countering The Neck Frame
3:57 Countering The Hip Frame
5:07 Chest Pressure and Mount Transition
8:04 Countering The Underhook
8:52 Closing Principles

(From a seminar I did 5 years ago)
These are a few central concepts of my Jiu-Jitsu Top Game:
1. Always try to put myself in territories that are familiar to me where I understand all the options (I call these “Staging Areas).
2. Make sure those Territories are also environments in which my opponent’s mistakes are inevitable.
3. Control my opponent’s priorities.
4. Use Extreme Pressure and Control to limit, slow, ride or direct my opponents movements. Always keep his movements predictable to me.
5. Make my opponent ALWAYS carry my weight.
6. Make sure his body is never in alignment.
7. Use pain, pressure, or inability to breathe to force him to make a choice (making sure his only options are bad ones).
One thing I try to do is always get to positions where I more and more limit the variables. This is why I don’t focus on just jumping around and going to as many positions as possible. It can be boring to roll with me because when I get to these positions my opponent has just a few options and if he does escape, I return him to these same control areas as soon as possible.
Here is sort of a variation of one I use a lot. I have a heavy shoulder of justice from side control. If my opponent stays there, I can either mount but more often I will just increase the pressure. If he turns in I go to reverse Kesa with the guillotine hold.
Again, I force him to carry my weight.
If he stays here, I can continue to make the pressure worse and worse.
I can also step to mount and finish the submission or continue the pressure.
If he goes back to his back, I go back to a heavy cross face and it starts all over.
If he tries to come on to top from his side, he’s walking into the full guillotine.
Many will still try to come on top even if they know the guillotine is waiting because I am able to put so much pressure on them when they’re on their side.
This is one of my top attack sequences and one I return to over and over when rolling.
I’m not showing my side control here but some details on the guillotine hold I use when my opponent turns on his side.
That is Decision 1: Deal with the pressure or turn on his side and into the guillotine hold. ( I have another flow if they try to roll away.)
Decision 2: Stay there and deal with the pressure or 1. Go back to being pinned, or 2. Allow me to mount, or 3. Come on top into the guard guillotine.
This is a flow I return to constantly!
Notice the choice I always force is between Pressure/Pain on the one hand and Submission/Positional advancement for me on the other.
I’ll cover this in much more depth on my Pressure & Control Instructional when this is all over and I can start shooting. But, for now I’m getting time to write out and finish the syllabi for all my DVDs

Here are some advanced details and concepts that will make escaping side control in BJJ so much easier courtesy of Thomas Lisboa. Check out https://www.grapplearts.com/book if you’re interested in BJJ but don’t know where to start; it’s my now infamous free guide to learning the sport as fast as possible.

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Good luck with your training!
Stephan

When you first start learning BJJ, you get overwhelmed with techniques but you rarely are taught conceptual frameworks in which to put those techniques.

That makes it very difficult to adapt when the situation is new to you. But, if you understand the concepts, then you can create a solution to the problem.

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If you end up on your opponent’s back in rearmount then he’ll be doing his very best to escape! Here’s how to shut him down and stay glued on his back using cross body rotational control!

This is part 1 in a series on the so-called ‘weak side’ of the back we’re releasing on Youtube and is a small part of the Back Control module of the BJJ Formula instructional.

You can get The Back Attacks Formula (including the NEW weak side material) in several different ways…

1) DVD and Online Streaming format here: https://www.grapplearts.com/the-bjj-formula/, or

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The Back Control Formula lives within the ‘BJJ Formula’ section of the Grapplearts BJJ Master App which you can download for free at the links below…

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I’ve release two Instructionals so far that have been very well-received (The Guillotine Code and My Escaping the Pin Seminar).
These are available here:
https://graciemuenster.com/store/

I’ve been working on a lot more but it takes time because I like to put out a quality, well-organized product – not just some random moves thrown together and taught quickly.

And, the one instructional that has been requested most is an explanation of my pressure and control game. This is the essence of MY BJJ Style and it works across the combative spectrum and for all ages and body types.

This will be a unique instructional in that it is based on giving you a deep understanding of the concepts and mechanics of how to pin, grind, control, and ride your opponent until they’re in such exhausted misery that they will give you any pass, position or submission that you want.

Other Instructionals that I’m working on:

* Wristlocks
* The Fundamentals of Grappling
* Headlock Defense
* The Back Game
* Butterfly Guard
* Sweeping with Taps and Picks
and more

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