Positional Game · GAME-LEI-05
Caught in 70/30 — Escape and Reverse
The hardest rung of the inside-position leg-entanglement ladder. The grappler starts caught in the opponent's 70/30 — hide the heel, escape to a neutral 50/50, or reverse to your own inside control.
Start position
POS-LE-7030
Round length
3:00 rounds
Reset rule
Reset when the caught player escapes to neutral or reverses to their own entanglement, or the controlling player forces a tap or holds 70/30 for ten seconds. Role rotates after each reset.
Top wins by
Hide the heel and escape the 70/30 to a neutral 50/50, or reverse to your own one-sided entanglement.
Bottom wins by
Force a lower-limb tap, or hold the 70/30 with confirmed control for ten seconds.
Game Description
The bottom rung — the hardest place on the inside ladder, where the grappler starts already losing. The opponent owns a dominant 70/30 on them, and the inside-position game is now defensive: hide the heel, survive, and fight back to neutral or better. By the time a grappler can solve this rung, every easier one above is theirs — which is why finish-first climbs down to it last.
How to Run This Game
Setup: The opponent has 70/30 with control established. The protagonist is the caught player, heel on the firing line.
Top wins — the caught player — by hiding the heel and escaping the 70/30 to a neutral 50/50, or reversing to their own one-sided entanglement. The escape starts with heel exposure: take the heel off the line before working the inside space back.
Bottom wins — the controlling player — by forcing a lower-limb tap, or holding 70/30 with confirmed control for ten seconds.
Score: One point per win condition. Role rotates. Default: no heel hooks unless agreed with established tap-release reliability.
Coaching Notes
The rung trains the first principle of leg-lock defence: the escape begins the instant the position is recognised, not when the heel is gripped. The caught player who waits to feel the finish has already lost the window. Hide the heel, clear the knee line, and fight to neutral before reversing. Elevated tier: this is live inside-heel-hook territory — tap before rotation.
Progressions
This is the bottom of the inside-position ladder. Its mirror is the outside-position ladder, and both meet at the neutral 50/50. For the full picture, see reverse phase progression and the phase-ladder library.