Jailbreak

Escape

The jailbreak is 10th Planet's escape from bottom side control back to butterfly guard: rather than shrimping to half guard, you create a frame-and-turn moment, slide your knee and shin through as a wedge, and "break out" directly into butterfly hooks. The system includes an arm-hook variation for when the standard knee-through lane is blocked.

Quick Reference

Key principles

  • · The destination defines the move: it recovers butterfly guard specifically, arriving with hooks ready to elevate rather than flat half guard survival.
  • · The knee-shin wedge threads through the gap your frames create at their hip line — frames make space, the shin keeps it.
  • · Timing rides their pressure: as they commit weight to control your upper body, the lower-body lane opens.
  • · In the arm-hook variation, hooking their arm redirects their base so the shin lane reopens when they block the standard path.
  • · Arriving in butterfly is an attack, not an escape's end — the same beat feeds elevation sweeps before they settle.

Execution

  1. 1 From bottom side control, set your frames on the near hip and shoulder and turn onto your side.
  2. 2 As their weight commits into your frames, slide your bottom knee and shin through the gap at their hip line.
  3. 3 If the lane is blocked, hook their near arm to redirect their base, then thread the shin.
  4. 4 Follow the shin with your hips, seating both butterfly hooks under their thighs.
  5. 5 Elevate immediately — attack the butterfly sweep or entangle before they re-pressure.

Common mistakes

  • × Turning flat-hipped into their pressure without frames, which compresses the space the shin needs.
  • × Escaping lazily into half guard out of habit when the butterfly lane was open — surviving where you could have been attacking.
  • × Skipping the arm hook when the lane is blocked and forcing the shin into a closed door, surrendering the underhook battle.

Do it from

Positions and situations where the Jailbreak shows up.

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Side Control Bottom

Where it lands

The position you end up in.

Butterfly Guard Bottom