Control Hips, Control Person

Mount is direct hip-on-hip control — your weight pins the opponent's primary movement engine to the mat. Controlling the hips from mount eliminates bridging, shrimping, and most escape mechanics.

The body triangle locks around the waist, compressing and immobilising the hips from behind. With hips locked, the opponent cannot turn, bridge, or generate any rotational escape force.

Ashi garami entangles the opponent's leg at the hip and knee, controlling their ability to retract or rotate the limb. Hip control via leg entanglement is what makes leg attacks high-percentage from this position.

Closed guard locks your legs around the opponent's waist, controlling their hip distance and posture. The guard player dictates the range by tightening or loosening hip control with the legs.

The over-under clinch controls one side of the hip directly with an underhook while the overhook restricts the opposite shoulder. This dual control prevents the opponent from generating takedown angles.

50/50 entangles both players' legs symmetrically, creating mutual hip control. The player who can free their hips first — through knee positioning or angling — gains the offensive advantage.

Knee on belly pins the opponent's hip line while you maintain mobility above. This asymmetric hip control — theirs pinned, yours free — creates a dominant attacking platform.

Single leg control lifts and isolates one side of the opponent's base, disrupting hip-level equilibrium. Controlling one hip off the ground forces a three-point base that is inherently unstable.

The lockdown wraps the opponent's leg from half guard, controlling their hip by preventing them from sliding their knee free. This hip control neutralises the top player's passing mechanics entirely.

Inside sankaku controls the opponent's hip by trapping the leg in a triangle formed by your legs. This hip entanglement prevents retraction and sets up heel hooks by immobilising the knee line.