Knee In Shoulder To Recover

Part of the course: The Lord of the Guards: Guard Retention by Jon Calestine

Knee In Shoulder To Recover
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Jon Calestine
Jon Calestine

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When your opponent moves to a north-south position and starts to drop their chest weight, it's crucial to prevent chest-to-chest contact. Here's how to recover:
  1. Keep your elbows glued and ensure that you're always gaining at least one shoulder in. This gives you the ability to start moving your head.
  2. Start framing your way out. Once you've created enough distance, you can start looking to recover from there, finding your hip.
  3. As your opponent moves north-south and drops chest-to-chest, keep one knee in. Even if only one knee's in, keep your elbow inside the shoulder to prevent them from gaining control.
  4. Start curving your spine and continue framing your way out. From here, you can start recovering.
  5. When your opponent makes their way chest-to-chest, always ensure that you're bringing one knee in, with two elbows in. Once you've done that, you can start bringing yourself out on an angle.
  6. Once you bring yourself out on the angle, find the hip, and get back in a very similar position that you had originally. From here, they can't circle either direction and you can use this motion to then start to recover, two hooks, closed guard, or whatever you want to do from there.
  7. Stop the north-south motion and start to recover by bringing the knees in, framing with your elbows, and then looking to start squaring up. Peek your head out and frame your way out from there.
This is how you recover from a north-south position when your opponent closes distance and tries to get chest-to-chest.

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