Aesopian does a lot of good things with his website: his photographs of techniques are impeccable, as is the fact that he understands the great questions of our Time (i.e., breaking down Marcelo Garcia's back control game). It's worth it checking in every few days just to see what he's up to.
One thing in particular caught my eye the other day. It was a simple description of hand position as taught by a grappling school here in the Pacific northwest (Oregon, I think), Straight Blast Gym.
To clarify, “straight jacket” refers to a posture SBG teaches for being under side control. Your arm nearest to them is laid across your chest with your hand resting on your opposite shoulder. Your other arm lays across your stomach with your hand on your hip. Like a straight jacket. This prevents them from making chest on chest contact or getting a underhook on the far arm, which makes getting the underhook on them easier while escaping.It sounds like something I might want to practice when doing elbow escapes.
