Limb Control: Rethinking 'Position before Submission'

Reilly Bodycomb and T.P. Grant look at a trend taking place on the Submission Grappling Scene as competitors are bending what "position" means in a grappling context.

Note: This is a guest post by Reilly Bodycomb, with T.P. Grant as a co-author. Reilly represented the United States in the 2008 Sambo World Championships, was the 2011 Dutch Sambo Open Champion, and was the 2014 New York ADCC Pro Division Lightweight Champion. He is a Sambo and Submission Grappling coach at NOLA BJJ in New Orleans.

Traditionally, when we as American grapplers talk about ‘position before submission’ we have a very specific idea as to what that word ‘position’ means. Typically we are referring to some sort of…