Beginner
Teaching the BJJ Hip Escape/Shrimp Drill
Coach's take: Best shrimp lesson in the batch - real progression, real mistake-checklist, easy to actually learn from.
3.9
Hip escape (shrimp)
Brazilian jiu-jitsu / Popular
The core movement for creating space and escaping bottom positions.
What coaches agree on
- Keep your elbows tucked in and your hands up as frames for the whole movement, protecting you and helping hold the space your hips just created.
- Lift your hips off the mat as you drive them back; even a slight lift cuts the friction and lets you travel farther with each push.
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- Start with your feet drawn in close to your hips before you push off; the closer they are, the higher and more powerful the escape.
- The moment your hip escape opens a gap, thread your knee or trailing foot straight back through it to recover guard.
Common mistakes
- Letting the pushing foot slip or lift off the mat mid-escape, which turns the movement into a weak twist of the upper body with no real leverage behind it.
Intermediate
Improve Your Shrimp/Hip Escape - BJJ Fundamentals
Coach's take: Cuts through the bad-habit version of this drill and explains what actually works against resistance.
3.8
Beginner
How To Shrimp In BJJ (A.K.A. Elbow Escape)
Coach's take: Covers all four shrimp variations with real technical detail - thorough and honest about what's hard here.
3.7
Beginner
BJJ For Beginners: How to Hip Escape (the most important movement you will ever learn in BJJ)
Coach's take: Complete, principle-first teaching that actually takes you to guard recovery - excellent.
3.7
Beginner
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Hip Movement/Shrimp with Henry Akins of Dynamix BJJ in Santa Monica, CA
Coach's take: Precise, credible teaching from someone who clearly drills this daily - explains the why before the how.
3.7
Beginner
How to Shrimp (Hip Escape) | Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Warmups 101
Coach's take: Explains the purpose as well as the mechanics - genuinely good intro material.
3.6
Intermediate
BJJ / MMA Solo Drills - Perfecting Hip Escapes and Shrimping with Peter Irving
Coach's take: Calls out the sloppy version of this drill everyone does and fixes it with a clear rule. Excellent.
3.5
Beginner
BJJ Beginners Tutorial - How to Hip Escape / Shrimp
Coach's take: Actually explains the WHY with a clear mental model, not just the WHAT.
3.5
Beginner
BJJ Hip Escape Made Easy with Henry Akins
Coach's take: Doesn't just show the shape — gives you a resistance drill to make the escape actually powerful.
3.4
Beginner
BJJ Hip Escape (Shrimp) - Level 1 Essential Movement for Beginners | Grappling Tutorial
Coach's take: Clean, no-fluff explanation of both the movement and why it matters.
3.4
Beginner
Hip Escape / Shrimp & Bridge Solo Details!
Coach's take: Excellent, detail-rich teaching that doesn't talk down to beginners - a standout in this batch.
3.3
Intermediate
The Biggest Mistake In The Hip-Escape by Bernardo Faria
Coach's take: Simple, specific, correct — fixes a mistake most people don't know they're making.
3.3
Beginner
Stuck on Bottom? "Shrimp" Back to GUARD! | the Hip Escape
Coach's take: Teaches the shrimp with the actual problem it solves — frame, wedge, slide out. Good stuff.
3.2
Intermediate
Make Your Hip Escape (Shrimp) Unstoppable by Henry Akins
Coach's take: Legit high-level insight on what the shrimp is actually for, from a genuinely elite source.
3.2
Beginner
How to do hip escapes or “shrimp” in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Coach's take: Solid, gentle intro for someone who's never set foot on a mat. Correct, not fancy.
2.8
Advanced
Hip Escapes- Advanced Shrimp
Coach's take: Clear drill description, thin on the why — 'stay loose' is doing a lot of work here.
2.7
Advanced
A Much More Powerful Alternative to Hip Escapes by Ryan Hall
Coach's take: Excellent conceptual framing on what the hip escape costs you — just know this excerpt stops before the actual alternative.
2.5
Beginner
How To Do A Shrimp | Kids BJJ | Jiu-Jitsu | Hip Escape
Coach's take: Gets the one cue that matters right, but there's not much else here.
2.5
Beginner
How to Shrimp/Hip Escape. First day BJJ at Brampton Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Coach's take: Correct fundamentals for a day-one student, just doesn't go much beyond that.
2.3
Beginner
BJJ Beginner's Movements: Hip Escapes, Beginner Level.
Coach's take: Accurate but bare-bones - a demo, not really a lesson.
1.9
Intermediate
BJJ Beginners Tutorial - Hip Escape / Shrimp to Turtle (Guard Retention Drill)
Coach's take: Good drill concept, but the delivery makes it a rough watch and it assumes you already have the basics.
1.6
Beginner
How to Do the Hip Escape aka Shrimping | Jiu Jitsu
Coach's take: Technically accurate but too thin to actually teach someone the movement.
1.5