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Joe Woo Shows The Side Control Escape That Ends With You On Top

Joe Woo Shows The Side Control Escape That Ends With You On Top

From Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics

October 14, 2026

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Stuck under side control? Joe Woo, one of the instructors at Bernardo Faria's academy, shows one of his favorite escapes from the bottom, and it finishes with you taking the top position.

The setup is simple. Keep your elbow tight to your body, like a dinosaur, as Bernardo puts it, and fight for the underhook. The other hand goes to his belt line. From there, swing your hips away, bridge hard and push to create space, come up to your knees and finish with a basic double leg: block the far knee, block the far ankle and drive forward. The whole position is reversed and you can go straight into a pass.

Bernardo and Joe then break down the details: what to do when you don't have the underhook yet, and why a bridge plus a hip swing is all you need. Joe is 46, and Bernardo points out how useful it is to learn from someone who is at the same stage of the jiu-jitsu journey as you.

This move comes from Joe Woo's full instructional on escapes from the bottom, available at BJJFanatics.com.
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🕒 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Meet Joe Woo
0:37 The Side Control Escape
1:32 One More Time, In Detail
1:41 Keep Your Elbow Tight Like A Dinosaur
1:47 Fight For The Underhook
2:10 Swing The Hips And Bridge Hard
2:20 Come To Your Knees And Take Him Down
2:28 No Underhook Yet? How To Get It
3:15 Learn From Someone Your Age
3:42 Wrap-Up

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Bernardo Faria is a 5x World Champion. Bernardo started training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Juiz de Fora - MG, Brazil at the age of 14 in 2001. After receiving the Black Belt from his first instructor Ricardo Marques in 2008, He moved to Sao Paulo to join BJJ legend Fabio Gurgel and his Alliance team. After many years of training and winning many major titles, Bernardo moved to NYC in 2013 to train and teach at Marcelo Garcia Academy. In 2015 Bernardo achieved his dream of winning the IBJJF World Championship Open class title and his division, doing the double Gold and becoming the 1st in the IBJJF Ranking and also chosen as the best athlete of 2015.

Bernardo Faria has now taken on the mission to share some of the lessons, techniques, experiences and more that he has learned along in his 16 years and counting as a BJJ student, teacher and world class competitor.

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