How to Escape a Headlock

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https://howtheyplay.com/individual-sports/How-to-Escape-a-Headlock

Headlock escapes are so well ingrained into most solid BJJ curricula that it's almost like a running joke. "Headlock escapes again?" The false dichotomy between "sport BJJ" and "self defense BJJ" or "real BJJ" doesn't help much, but if you consider headlock escapes as nothing more than the total sum of the more fundamental movements involved, it's easy to see how many of the same concepts and pieces of the moves apply across a wide range of "sport" situations (and vice versa). One thing is for certain: BJJ really, really knows how to escape from a headlock!
 
Escaping headlock has always been easy. And then I got into kesa gatame ...
 
Escaping headlock has always been easy. And then I got into kesa gatame ...
I trained judo first, so right there with you. Fortunately, I got really good at kesa gatame escapes as well!
 
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