Getting your back taken can be a BJJ death sentence if you’re on the other end of an exchange with a proficient player. The back is often touted as the best position in BJJ and this is for good reason. With all...

One of the most dominate positions you can have in Jiu Jitsu is having control of someone’s back, otherwise known as back mount.  There is a reason why this position rakes in the high point values in points based tournaments, typically tied with...

Escaping the back is a fundamental concept in BJJ. We learn it early, and its important that we add it to our tool box in our very first months of training. Being that the back mount is a flagship position in BJJ, this...

The back escape. One of the most dynamic escapes in BJJ. Depending on how the offensive player is attacking will determine your means of escape, and there are many ways to attack. When I first started training BJJ, the only escape that was...

Being stuck in back control is easily one of the most frustrating things that can happen to us when rolling or competing. Being in back control is an entirely defensive position while the attacker is in an entirely offensive position. The main trouble...

Having your back taken by a decently skilled grappler can be exhausting physically and mentally. I recall that in my earlier days, I would get so frustrated with someone controlling my back that it would cause me to make a silly mistake that...

I became proficient at escaping the back early in BJJ career. I had several training partner’s that absolutely loved the back, so it seemed I was always there, defending, and creating new ways to not get strangled or submitted in some fashion. It’s...

One of the toughest things to do in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is to escape back control. When you are caught in full back control with a seatbelt grip and hooks, you are essentially in the worst position in Jiu Jitsu. Because the attacker...

  The back position is already hard enough to escape, but when someone locks on that body triangle, it can feel like death. The body triangle from back is as the name suggests, the person who has someone’s back taken locks up their...

Learn This Easy Back Escape In Just 2 Simple Steps It is commonly agreed that in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, self defense, and other grappling martial arts such as wrestling and sambo, that the worst thing you can let someone do in a fight...