If you’re caught in a fully applied heel hook you should tap, but IF you catch it early, hide your heel, and strip the grip off your foot you can hit him with a sweet rolling backtake and choke him out! From Rolling Backtakes for Everyone, available at https://www.grapplearts.com/rollingbacktakes

Knowing how to defend, escape, and counter the heel hook leglock attack is super important. In this excerpt from https://www.grapplearts.com/modern BJJ black belts Matt Kwan and Rob Biernacki show how the berimbolo can be applied to defend and even counterattack the heel hook when your opponent has you in ‘ashi garami’, the most common and popular entanglement for leglocks. The berimbolo isn’t just a guard attack – it can be used to escape many different situations in both gi and no gi grappling.

Here’s how to escape from a heel hook, one of the most feared submission grappling. From the ‘Leglock Defense’ volume of The Modern Leglock Formula – more info at http://www.grapplearts.com/leglocks