Henry always has techniques that seem like you missed something in years of classes even as a black belt.

Thanks for creating your channel and sharing all your knowledge Henry!

2:25 I also like Matt Thorntons answer to the punch here - you post on the bicep, everytime he pulls back to punch you stop his arm from moving forward just a little - in two punches he tends to ratchet HIMSELF into a situp escape FOR YOU. Very good. Thank you Henry. I found you because of Matt, and I'm watching and training all your videos now.

The angle at 4:50 is key to understanding this, least for me

I'm still a white belt and I think I learned this during month two, although they didn't cover the detail of extending your arms forward while hiding your chin. Thank you, Henry ;)

Love the detail about the extended arms. Definitely adding that.

love your stuff Henry, thank you!

Very nice, a judo sensei many years ago told me the same, bridge towards the shoulder. Thank you for sharing knowledge.

Awesome details of invisible jiu jitsu.I want to thank Henry for his awesome work sharing his wonderful knoledge with jiu jitsu people

I love your channel. Thank you

After drilling this a multitude of times it has become my primary escape from Kesa Getame.

Wow - I lurched somethin’ new today! Ossss!

"Side control" is usually associated with yoko-shiho-gatame. This is a kesa-gatame escape, so the appropriate name would be "scarf hold".

Henry im glad you made a KZfaq Channel 👍

Very nice 👍🏼

Excellent work sir this will help big time thank you.

Henry is so good.

One of the most underrated and dangerous position to get in stuck. The solution is simple but that's the hardest part of jiu-jitsu to see the simple solution.

I ve been trying to do this for years. Seeing this makes me feel like I saw a magic trick. I'll have to try this again, but I just cant imagine, how I would off-balance anyone by that much with just the strength of my shoulders/arms.

same as rickson gracie uppa, where you use shoulder

I am really amazed by the icon at the very beginning, would you please explain the meaning? It has been in my mind for a long time.

amazing

Dalé 👊🏼

Sweet.

Henry's stuff is scary good. I bought soul stealer at first and now i'm working through white to blue (even though im already at blue) and revisiting fundamental concepts and moves through Henry's eyes. be careful with soul stealer. might accidentally piss off a lot of upper belts... oops...

I tried this but when they are taller, they just use the free hand to post above your head. In the video , the top person is holding onto your tricep and didn't let go. This is not the ideal situation. Thoughts?

You can’t steal my soul anymore😝

so... I guess it's kind like a reverse hip throw ?

Any schools in Hawaii you recommend?

eh.... not a big fan of the bridge escape against the kesa gatame. the ONLY way it really works is if the guy is a total newbie with the position and has no idea how to hold it at all. even in Henry Akin instructional on kesa gatame, he show like you should use your legs extensively to maintain it. The thing is, once you get that head & arm control then even if you get bridged over, you can still play kesa gatame from the bottom as long as you are really snug on that head & arm, using your legs & stay relaxed. Thus the bridge is not a good escape- if you try to bridge someone over from kesa gatame, all you did was make a heavy noose around your neck & shoulder. and you can easily get rolled right back into normal kesa gatame....

Why is it that bjj teachers always try to cover self defense scenarios by telling us how to defend and stop the attacker from striking by using pure jiu jitsu. If you're already talking about self defense scenario then tell us how to use bjj to get into a better position to strike for the eyes, throat, back of the head, knees, etc. I love doing bjj, but I remember a few things from a period when I did krav maga; if you cant get your leg over his face to counter kesa gatame, pull his head back with fingers on the eyes and you'll get it. There are a lot of scenarios where you could advance your position with simple things like fingers, or elbows to the eye, groin and throat strike, headbutt etc.. Life or death scenarios of course. Anything else is giving people less chances