Side Control Might Be Overrated

Most grapplers default to side control as their go-to top pin. But north south might actually be the better version of it and in this breakdown I explain why. We cover the full relationship between side control and north south, including: Why north south gives you better control and fewer escape routes than standard side control How the front headlock connects naturally out of north-south pressure Where the kimura trap opens up once you've established this control This isn't a list of random bjj techniques it's the conceptual case for why north south deserves a bigger place in your side control game. Built for jiu jitsu, Brazilian jiu jitsu, and grappling practitioners who want to understand pinning strategy, not just memorize positions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Alignment 01:35 Legs/Shoulders 04:00 Setting Traps 05:57 Rotation 07:14 Homework/Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ GRAPPLING THEORY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram →   / grapplingtheoryhq   TikTok →   / grappling.theory   Patreon →   / grapplingtheory   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #leglocks #bjj #grappling