How do I escape side control in BJJ?

Side control escape begins with protecting yourself from submissions by keeping elbows tight and hands near your neck. Establish frames using your forearms as barriers against their chest and hips. The primary escape involves framing, shrimping your hips away, getting your inside knee between you and your opponent, and recovering guard. The timing is crucial because attempting to escape when they have settled their full weight is much harder than catching them during a transition. An alternative approach is to frame on their far hip, shrimp your hips away, and come up to your knees with an underhook for a single leg or wrestling up escape. Going to turtle is another option but only if you have good turtle defense. The ghost escape involves framing on their hips and sliding your body underneath them to come out the other side. Practice multiple escapes because a single predictable escape is easy for skilled opponents to shut down.