Depending on the situation theres a few things I like to do
First of all fight for the underhook. If possible shrimp your hips out to one side, slide your knee under yourself and get back to your knees, or if your long and flexible like me, take the leg thats not on the mat, throw it over and hook it in and try to take the back. I also like to scamble from the bottom around to north south and either bump, bridge, spin so my knee is under me and grab a leg or pull my legs over and try to take back. If you are really really stuck just keep shrimping your hips out over and over and over, as he scrambles to catch you,. youll eventually be able to catch a leg from half guard and work a sweep or retain full guard or something. Side control is tough, and it sucks especially when the guy is bigger, its all about getting those hips out and working from there. Its one of those things that you can read 1000 tutorials on but when it comes down to it, you gotta just get under big dudes and try to work out of it and find an escape that you really like. Eventually fending them off from taking side becomes instinct and you learn to suck your knees to your chest and keep shrimping out, etc etc to make it hard for them |