Key Takeaways
- A No-Gi BJJ DVD leads you through effective escapes from the most common positions and submissions.
- Features mount, side control, knee on belly, and back mount escapes.
- Explains how to get out of straight and bent armlocks, leg locks, and chokes.
- BJJ World Expert Rating: 8 out of 10.
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Every position in BJJ has an escape, and every submission people put you in can be countered. Given the sheer number of positions and submissions though, this may seem like an impossible task to achieve.
Well, if you try to find a solution for every position and submission out there, you’ll get stuck and fail, since it is literally impossible. The Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD offers not just ways to deal with everything, but also a way of categorizing positions and submissions so that the same escape concepts apply to a bunch of them at once.
Where to Start With ‘Houdini’ Training
Getting out of anything in BJJ is more difficult than most things you’re going to do in your life. Before you start exploring defense and escapes, you need to be aware that you’ll have to spend considerable time suffering in different positions. There’s no other way around it.
However, once you manage, you’ll turn into the ‘Houdini’ you think your instructor is, even if you have decades less experience than them. Escaping is really all about trickery, with the results being potentially match-ending – very Houdini-like, won’t you agree?
Adding escapes to your repertoire means you need to have solutions for every position and submission that exists. Placing moves and positions into broader categories will help reduce the amount of information you need to process, allowing you to repeat and practice more.
So, to start with, pick a bad position and allow yourself to be placed there. Then, pick up the Position And Submission Craig Escapes Funk DVD to start getting ideas on where you need to go and what you need to do to get there.
CSW Coach Craig Funk
Combat Submission Wrestling is a gym that is run by one of the most legendary MMA coaches in the world – Erik Paulson. He has been delivering a version of n-nonsense grappling, based on catch wrestling, BJJ, and Sambo, that is very hard to beat.
One of the alumni of Erik’s CSW is Craig Funk, a BJJ black belt who has been training since his early teenage days. His competitive record includes both grappling and pro-MMA bouts but also a decade of work as a bouncer, and we all know how much that experience comes in handy. Just take a look at John Danaher.
Currently heading the Freedom BJJ Academy Craig has taken the CSW style of grappling in two specific directions. One is self-defense, an area of combat sports Craig is highly proficient in.
The other direction is highly effective submission grappling for pro competitors, based on counter-attacking tactics. In the Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD we see what Funk likes to use to make his students unsubmittable and very hard to hold down.
Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD Review
This Craig Funk Escapes DVD was a very fun instructional to watch. The no-nonsense CSW style and the great organization of the material means that you can use it even if you’re a complete beginner. Craig delivers almost an hour and a half of material over two volumes in this DVD:
Part 1 – Positional Escapes
There is a simplicity easily associated with CSW running through the material in this Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD. For example, the first volume is all about positional escapes, sticking to the point and covering all the key spots, offering more than one way out.
Craig starts with the mount, offering a total of three different ways out, each featuring a different direction. Put together, they’re as unstoppable as you can hope to get when escaping.
Side control and knee on belly follow, once again with plenty of variations for each. I can point out the Hip Rip side control escape as one that really helped me out.
The back mount is the final position Funk addresses in the first volume, offering two ways out, both of which are based on principles that actually work against high-level opposition. I prefer the back-to-the-mats approach but the Caveman Crunch is definitely one that will catch many people by surprise.
Part 2 – Escaping Submissions
Part two of the Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD is all about submission escapes. Now that you know how to get out of most positions, it won’t matter where you end up after you deal with a submission threat – you know how to escape!
Funk divides the material into straight arm locks, triangles, shoulder locks, and leg locks. The straight armbar gets more attention than any other move, with a total of 5 escape options, covering both top and bottom scenarios.
Triangle escapes contain moves you’re probably already using, but with plenty of details to polish them up. The same is true for Omoplata escapes, while there are some very interesting approaches to dealing with Kimuras that I am itching to try.
Ankle locks round up this part of the instructional, as most of CSW’s curriculum tends to favor them over heel hooks. If recent evidence is anything to go by, ankle locks really do seem like the worst leg lock to defend and escape these days, and the options Funk provides will definitely help you out.
How to Make Everything Work in BJJ
There is a hidden caveat to developing a very sound defensive game in BJJ that most people miss out on. A very welcomed ‘side effect’ of focusing on defending and escaping si that all your attacks are going to improve as a direct result of your effort.
Wait, what? How can you get better at attacking when you’re learning to escape? It’s easy – the better you become at fending off attacks and escaping late-stage positions and submissions, the more your grappling confidence is going to grow.
This translates to opening your attacking game up, and taking way more risks since you now don’t care if you get into a bad spot or end up in a submission. Knowing how to escape is exactly what you need to turn your attacking game up two or three notches while developing a well-rounded game in the process.
While there is no mention of turning escapes and defense into direct attacks in the Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD, the material sets the stage for it. After all, CSW is infamous for effective counterattacks, and the material in this DVD contains their bread-and-butter escapes and defense strategies.
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Annoy Everyone!
It will take you some time to figure everything out in terms of escapes. You’ll need to dedicate some work to each position and submission and some will end up taking more of your time than others. However, everything you need to figure out the solutions is in the Position And Submission Escapes Craig Funk DVD, presented in more ways than one. The secret to developing world-class escapes is something you already know – practice, practice, practice!
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