Once you can maintain side control, it's time to add in a series of submissions that you can setup from the 6 different positions of side mount without losing control of the person underneath. Some of the submissions we'll focus on are:
- Arm Bars
- Americanas
- Collar Choke/Dandelion Choke
- Kimura
- Anaconda
Grasp Sparrow Tail, the one and only. Yang Lu Chan's masterpiece sequence from Qing dynasty Chinese Boxing. This is Yang's Cotton Boxing (miánquán 棉拳), or more widely known as Taijiquan (Tai Chi). The Yang style long form is riddled with this move. I have spent years trying to figure out how this move worked, and it is one of the handful of Cotton Boxing techniques that has continued to elude me. Until now…