New York Control

Position
Also known as:
New York

New York is the rubber guard position Eddie Bravo built for the moment you cannot clear the opponent's head: from mission control, you switch to holding your shin with the same-side hand, keeping the high-leg posture break while freeing your other arm to work. It is the junction of the rubber guard ladder — chill dog, gogoplata, triangles, and omoplatas all branch from here.

Quick Reference

Key principles

  • · It exists for the stuck moment: when their head cannot be cleared for the higher climbs, New York keeps the posture break and converts it into attacks anyway.
  • · The same-side shin grip is the switch — it frees your opposite hand entirely, and that free hand is the position's whole offense.
  • · The high leg must stay heavy across their back; the hand swap is where beginners let posture leak back.
  • · The free hand fights their remaining defenses — clearing arms, feeding the gogoplata foot, or pushing the head for omoplata angles.
  • · If they drive forward to smash, the trapped-arm side gives; if they pull back, the omoplata side opens — read the direction and take the matching branch.

Execution

  1. 1 From mission control with their posture broken, keep the high leg heavy across their upper back.
  2. 2 Switch your grip so the same-side hand holds your shin, freeing the opposite arm.
  3. 3 Use the free hand to control their wrist or begin feeding your foot toward their chin line.
  4. 4 Advance by reaction: trap their mat-side arm to enter chill dog, feed the gogoplata, or push their head down and out for the omoplata.
  5. 5 If they stall all branches, the triangle remains behind their divided defense.

Common mistakes

  • × Swapping hands with a light leg, letting them posture up during the exchange and unwind the whole ladder.
  • × Parking the free hand on their body doing nothing, wasting the entire advantage New York creates.
  • × Forcing the head-clear anyway from stubbornness instead of taking the attacks the position was designed to give.

Attacks & transitions

Offense available from New York Control.

Armbar From Guard submission Gogoplata submission Omoplata Sweep sweep Omoplata To Back transition Triangle Setup transition

Escapes & defense

Getting out of New York Control, or shutting it down.

Chill Dog