This One Principle Completely Changes Side Control Escape 

You are my favorite coach on RU-vid. This is my first year training Jiu Jitsu and your channel has allowed me to survive and progress so much as a white belt. Thank you!!

These types of videos are so good for the white belts like me where we see the BIG PICTURE. Oftentimes instructors will bog us down in the details, but we have no place to store this info yet, because we haven't seen the big picture. Thank you so much!!!

The "dog toy" sound at 5:45 got me laughing lol. Super nice and in depth video Jon as always

escape side control by teleporting from one gym to another 😂

You, Danaher, & Gordon Ryan produce my favorite instructionals .

12:24 I hit this sweep yesterday after watching this video multiple times on a guy who does this head lock to me all the time. I did the exact same thing, baited the leg hook so he circled round and rotated him round. Worked like a charm and even he was shocked ahaha Great move and took no energy! Felt amazing to pull off and no longer feel like that position will be as annoying as it used to be. Thanks!

Omg for real bro I put this on 1.5x speed and really learned exactly the problem areas in my game in less than twenty minutes. Completely blew my mind with confidence and excitement to put this into practice as much as possible even with my dummy at home. Thank you so much for sharing you knowledge with us truly keep the great knowledge coming. If you can do mount escapes just like this style of video would be great.

Thanks for this. I'm a blue belt and all my sidecontrol escapes come from when my opponent starts to move either to mount or attack a sub. This is my go-to escape and it came back to bite me in the a$$ in competition when my opponent just sprawled and death grip the sidecontrol until the time expired.

This is the gift that keep on giving, watching it again after a couple of months and picking up a few more details I missed the first time

I’m one week into jiu jitsu and these videos are gold. Principles and fundamentals are needed.

This video really establishes the key framework for demystifying BSC escape confusion! The thoroughness here is really a beautiful thing. The entire work is teeming with pearls of wisdom! I managed this deep analysis by getting out my BJJ notebook and taking notes. Really the only way to keep track of the connection between the escape position and it's potential escape tool. Then, just carry the notebook with you everywhere to review! Deeply appreciate this coach Thomas!

Definitely the best instructional teacher on RU-vid. You’re a born instructor! Thank you tons. I just started 2 weeks ago.

I wish I could like this 100x. Can't wait to institute these principals. Thank you!

I just got my purple belt and am pretty slippery on bottom side but I've never seen a couple of these details, awesome stuff!

great system and amazing how you condensed this into 20 mins! keen for a north south escape system too!

These concepts are great. I don’t get to train as often as I’d like but I’ve been revisiting this video every three weeks to remind myself of what I should be doing.

Best coach on youtube, this channel should have so much more subs

No stripe white belt here. Your videos and delivery of the concepts are so easy to understand. Love the way you show the minute details. Can't wait to practice.

Not to take away from your teaching, but the camera quality, lighting, and camera angles make these instructions so easy to follow.

I love your "principles" classes.. You explain things perfectly! Huge OSS & thanks!

I revisit your videos every couple of months, and each time, I get a better understanding, Thanks!

Your hip stapling principles have been huge for me in learning how to escape and also improve. Just tapped our purple belt for the first time who won a comp just a few weeks ago by finally figuring out how to advance past his side defense. Pretty good for a little white belt in a big pond :') I'm sure this will be huge for me, too more people need to cover principles in an accessible way like you do, you're killing it

The details of scooping toward the far side hip with your nearside arm as well as bringing your far leg up to make it easier for the nearside knee to enter are super useful so far, got those from your earlier videos.

This is quite possibly the best jiu jitsu instructional on RU-vid. My side control escape game has exploded after watching it a few times. You have done me and all future grapplers a great service. Thank you

Excellent. I liked the last part where you talk about how to integrate the system in one's game.

Good note about knowing you’re getting passed and to start making frames. I’ve been hanging onto grips too long.

I'm completely impressed by how pedagogical and well you explain and demonstrate in this video. As someone completely new to this sport, I greatly appreciate it, especially how you also think about including cameras on both sides, which is highly appreciated for me as a newcomer and someone who doesn't understand how and what to think about, and otherwise easily could have missed. That you go through the basics, pros and cons, philosophy, and thoughts about why things are the way they are and why one wants to do things in a certain way is highly appreciated and instructive. This makes me want to follow you and explore your channel further. You impress me, I hope you continue like this. Best regards from Sweden.

11:23 cries in Judo I’ve made the switch recently and asked the professor about that pin (he’s a black belt in both) and he told me to stick to it for white and blue and then later on look at developing away from it, but for now don’t be afraid to use the pin and attack from that position

Holy crimoly, this video is amazing. I'm going to be able to put so much of this to use immediately. 🤙

You really are great at teaching man. You speak very clear and make everything easy to understand. Keep up the great work!

Finally! Someone addressing switching base

This video is incredible, and for free ! Thank you Jon for all the knowledge you teach us, greetings from a Brazilian blue belt 😅

Love the bowl concept! This is so basic yet so overlooked

love the concept of the knee collapsing if in too far from side control recovery, its the little things that count😮

Texted this url to myself, I plan to watch it at least a few more times, great content.

Rewatching this video after a year and my brain is making a lot more mental connections and "chaining together" some of the different motions. A good refresher especially now that my instructor is going over some more advanced side control maneuvers in class. Thanks Jon!

Another amazing video. I can't tell if it's the raw ideas or simply your ability to articulate/demonstrate them so well that makes your videos what they are, but regardless, thank you. You have a gift for educating others.

I got smushed all day today and this video made me feel better… thank you.

I've been following you for years. Always watch anything new that comes up. A lot of the time, I think, man, this is good content, but I feel like I'm too low level to fully benefit from what you are sharing. I see the benefit, but it's always like im to not quite fluent enough in the "language" of what we do if that makes sense. Like im absorbing things through a filter and not getting quite the full benefit that I know is in the words and examples you always show. I am a blue belt and I've trained for about 3 years now. I have decent success escaping side control, but I still get stuck a lot, too. I don't know if the timing was just good with me mentally and with my jiujitsu progression, or (more likely) its just the way you broke down all the details in this video, but it really clicked for me. It all makes so much sense, and it seems laughably simple - especially the way you broke down how to train this. Specifically isolating each type of side control in positional sparing. I do tons of positional sparing at the cobrinha affiliate school I'm at, but it's exactly how you broke it down... the position changes, and if you haven't put in the reps to be confident in each variation and the transitions, then you get a half step behind. Then you get really locked up and flustered, trying to recall your steps. I worked on these tonight, and it was instantly like a well-oiled machine. It feels like learning a language, and then all of a sudden, I stumbled into some moments of fluency and clarity with this video and the subsequent practice of it. I can totally see how this evolves into great guard retention, too. This video came to me at the exact right time. Thanks a lot, Jon 🙏

Thanks for the content!

great stuff

Great content Jon!

Amazing, thanks!!

Good stuff!

So good! Thanks!

Great stuff

Love this thank you!

Love this channel!!

Thank you. You don't know but you've helped a white belt not be stuck in kesa gatame

Great video!

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Awesome😊

Thank you!

Thx coach!

Huge thank you. Needed to develop a full system to handle being it side control

Thats great video thank you!

Nice!

Amazing thank you!

great video

So good. Thanks

Thanks for sharing what you are teaching is very useful. Im just a 1 Year white belt and too often a more experienced player will just switch positions and ill be stuck in side control the hole round. By showing all the options ill be better prepared for every scenario. OSS🙂

I Love your vídeos. Thank you!

Thank you 🙏🏻

Great stuff!

Thank you for this amazing video ! ❤

super helpful

Thanks ! Great advice as usual 🤙🤙🤙

thanks!

I’m new here, have watched a lot of instructional, this guy is good.

Really enjoy your content style! Thanks!

Fantastic vid, Jon! Really thorough and logical explanations here!

Thank you

Awesome!

The very best video about side control I have seen so far thanks!

Super helpful, please do a seminar in Philadelphia one day!

Great stuff Jon!

This is gold! Thank you!

Looking forward to watching this one again and again. Great stuff thank you

Solid gold instruction!

Great info. It's always informative when you start with the concept since that is always the baseline that we would remember and go back to when drilling this live with a resisting opponent. I hope you can also make a mount escape video in a similar format, cause I looked into your videos and have not seen any escapes from mount.

Love the detail, thanks!

I used to watch your videos and not understand a damn thing of what you were trying to teach, now I'm starting to be able to digest it in small pieces. It's a win-win because I'm either improving as a jiujustu practitioner, or you're getting better at explaining these concepts, OR BOTH! 😄🎉

Very comprehensive instructional! I like going through one of your videos before class and then focusing on that specific topic. Doing this has significantly improved my rolls! Thank you!

can u post your rolls with Espen and narrate them that would be realy good.

Great vid JT. 🤛

Thanks for making this, super helpful!

This was amazing. Very informative. Thank you for this.

Clearly quality content. Thanks for sharing

Genuinely exceptional coach. Wow

Awesome, really. All your videos are priceless. Thank you for sharing!

Jon, I am doing bjj since August 2022, your videos are super usefull for me, every session I am implementing a new principle to my toolbox and it is amazing how within one month of watching your RU-vid chanel I am able to fight almost equal fight with guys that smashed me 2 or 3 months ago. I would love to see more details about escaping side pins as well as mount/back escape. Thanks!

Great Tips Brother I needed this!!!👊🏽👴🏾🕺🏾🥋

Love the content.

Appreciate your awesome videos every time.

Really good explanation

Sick details, explanations and techniques 👍

excellent....

Thank you coach!

thank you for this. saving my life.

I need to re-watch this video again and again and again! 😅 Understanding the concept of recognizing which kind of situation you're currently stuck in (i.e. the principles behind the pin) and adapting the escape, is so basic, yet so far away from my own BJJ 😅 Thanks for the break-down!