Escape the outside heel hook

Before it’s locked

• Keep your knee outside the line between their hip and your ankle
• Never spin before your heel is hidden
• Clear their outside foot off your hip early

The main escape

1. Hide your heel from their armpit and keep your knee pointing outside their hips
2. Hand-fight the heel grip; don’t leave your heel in the crook of their elbow
3. Push their outside foot off your hip to loosen the entanglement
4. Slip your heel out, then turn and step free to start passing

Escape roadmap

The seven stages of this escape. Work from the top: the earlier you act, the less you need the later stages.

1. 1
   Prevent

   • Keep your knee outside the hip-ankle line
   • Clear their outside foot off your hip
2. 2
   Defensive posture

   • Sit up
   • Hide your heel
3. 3
   Hand fight

   • Fight the heel grip
   • Push their wrist away
4. 4
   Make space

   • Push their hip foot off
   • Turn your knee out
5. 5
   Clear the structure

   • Slip your heel out of their elbow
   • Clear their legs off yours
6. 6
   Late escape

   • Tap early on any heel hook
   • Don’t spin before the heel is hidden
7. 7
   Back to safety

   • Step out and start passing
   • Feet away from their hips

Escape options

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