New Understanding: The Importance of Back Attacks
NoGi BJJ: Intro to back attacks by Corey Guitard • 1m 38s
In grappling sports, there is no better position than back control. When you’re behind your opponent, you’re able to maintain control, stay safe, and wage your own attacks while your opponent can really only focus on defending and trying to escape.
This course will teach you how to punish your opponents for giving you even the slightest bit of back exposure.
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Principles of Back Control
The three preliminary principles of back control are: having your chest connected to your opponent’s back, having your hips above your opponent’s hips, and having your head and your choking arm on opposite sides of your opponent’s head.
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Strong and Weak Sides Explained
There are situations where, if your opponent is defending correctly, you may want to voluntarily switch from back control on the strong side to the weak side. For you to make this transition, you’ll have to move your underhook to the other side, change your head positioning, and hip-escape to ens...
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Switching from Strong Side to Weak Side
There are situations where, if your opponent is defending correctly, you may want to voluntarily switch from back control on the strong side to the weak side. For you to make this transition, you’ll have to move your underhook to the other side, change your head positioning, and hip-escape to ens...
