The Ghost side control escape is a 10th planet jiu jitsu technique that uses one of the fundamentals of BJJ – using your opponent’s energy against them. The Ghost escape starts like a normal side control escape, using your forearms to protect your neck and keep your opponent from getting too close. Then, you threaten a traditional guard recovery side control escape and when your opponent reacts, you use the space they create to slip away like a ghost.
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Start: Side control bottom
Step 1: Establish forearm blocks with T-Rex arms
Step 2: Shrimp away from opponent and face them
Step 3: Use inside hand to stiff arm or pimp hand and block opponent’s hip.
Step 4: Switch outside hand to whizzer overhook
Step 5: Attempt to step outside foot over opponent’s bottom side leg
Step 6: When opponent reacts, reach inside arm through under their body and between their knee and arm
Step 7: Swing feet away from opponent and punch inside arm through to spin around to all fours as you rotate away from opponent
Finish: Scramble
