Robert Drysdale in side-control at 2003 Worlds / Photo by Gustavo Aragão/GRACIEMAG.com
A Jiu-Jitsu professor and a GMA or ours, Ricardo Cavalcanti teaches at Carlson Gracie Las Vegas. He understands that, in Jiu-Jitsu, few positions are more unpleasant or suffocating as when an opponent passes your guard and settles in side-control.
The scholarly professor has thus decided to gift GRACIEMAG.com readers with three sweet defenses to help turn the tables and to sharpen up their Jiu-Jitsu in training. Check out these three ways of defending when stuck in side-control.
