Every jiu-jitsu practitioner has experienced the struggle that is escaping the back body triangle. It squeezes the air from your lungs, compresses your rib cage, and can feel impossible to escape, all while you’re forced to defend your neck. In a recent video with Bernardo Faria, top no-gi grappler Gordon
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Gordon Ryan’s absence from competition doesn’t mean he’s been absent from teaching. Ryan’s recent instructional focuses on attacking from dominant top positions like side control and mount (“pins,” as he and his coach John Danaher call them). Check out the video below for a taste of this instructional, as Ryan
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Escaping side control is rarely easy. In most cases, the grappler escaping side control is happy with simply escaping back to guard. But what if the side control escape leads directly into a submission for the bottom player? That’s even better. Check out the video below from black belts Stephan
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