#mount escape

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning gi class with Keith. After warm-ups we drilled a bit and then got into a nice detail for the oompa mount escape:

With opponent in top mount, they reach their right arm in your collar to set up a cross collar choke. 

Wrap both your arms around opp’s right elbow.

Step your left foot outside opp’s right foot to trap it.

Bridge to reverse opp. Opponent bases their left hand out onto the mat to maintain mount.

With your left arm, wrap up their left at the elbow. 

Reach your right hand over opp’s left shoulder and pull him towards you.

Step your right foot outside opp’s left foot to trap it.

Bridge to reverse towards your right.

Then some live rolls, baby!

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning with Keith. Today’s focus was more mount escapes.

Under mount, fight to establish your arm frames against opp’s hips (right forearm across their waist, left elbow tucked next to their right hip).

Bridge to your left by opening up your left knee and pushing hard off of your right foot.

When opponent shifts to the side, slide your left knee under opp’s thigh.

Use that knee to push and free up your left leg and get into half guard.

Turn to your right and shrimp away as you frame against opp’s left shoulder.

Reguard.

Then we played a bunch of king of the mount with some higher belts staying in. Live rolls after that.

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning with Keith. After warm-ups we got into some bridging practice in preparation for some nice details on the oompa escape from mount.

With opponent mounting you, use your right hand to get an inside sleeve grip right next to their right elbow. 

Use your left to grab the seam behind opp’s right arm and pull the arm down so their elbow is centered on your belly.

Use your left elbow to push opp’s right knee down, and then trap it with your left foot. In this variation, you want to turn your left knee to the left so it’s almost parallel with the mat. 

Clamp your left elbow over opp’s right knee and bridge up hard, turning your head to look directly behind you. 

Once you get about halfway, you can turn over your hips to finish the escape. 

We also worked on a couple of variations based on the opponent defending. 

If opponent brings their far arm to the mat to base out and prevent the escape:

Wrap your left arm around their elbow

Settle back onto your back

Reach your right arm over opp’s left shoulder and grab behind their collar. 

Bridge and roll to your right.

If opponent bases out hard to their left once you’ve trapped their arm:

Reach your right arm over opp’s left shoulder and grab behind their collar

Pull them back to the center, then continue right away into the bridge and roll.

Some tough rolls after that work. Did some positional and some good old fashioned live.

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Thursday morning with the no gi kids. Keith’s still out so I led the group with more escapes from side control and mount. We focused on the modifications you need to make it work in no gi. Also added the elbow escape from mount to the mix. A good sweat was had by all.

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning with...me. Keith’s away this week so I led the early bird class in drilling some basic escapes. We covered the stone squirrel reguard from bottom of side control and the elbow push. We talked about how it’s best to have two options for escape and to alternate between them to keep your opponent off balance and have a better chance of success. We did the same for mount escapes - the oompah and the hip push to butterfly guard. Did a bit of situational sparring after that to reinforce the escapes against a slightly less cooperative opponent. 

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning with Keith. After warm-ups we drilled some basic movements from standing: getting grips, off-balancing opponent, etc. They we did the same from guard and did some positional sparring there. Then we reviewed a mount escape:

Opponent has you mounted, with grapevines in and a wide base.

Place your hands on both opp’s biceps to keep them from gaining head control.

With your left hand, grab opp’s right triceps and pull it to the right side of your head as you move your head to the left. Your right hand should immediately make contact so you have 2-on-1 on their arm.

Opponent may try to re-establish the wide grip or pull their arm out. When they move, pull both elbows in tight to your body to lock their arm.

Free your right foot and bridge up to roll them. 

If you can’t free the right grapevine, bridge and then kick your right leg to continue he momentum. 

Then a bit of live after that. Good times.

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Tuesday morning with Keith. We jumped right into some mount escapes after warm-ups:

From a mounted position with your opponent’s right arm on your chest, grab their arm with both hands - left pinches at the elbow, right circles over the wrist for a monkey grip.

Opponent will try to pull away (difficult) and probably eventually rotate their arm to escape your grip. When they do, push your right hand into their belt (maintaining your grip) and pull the elbow with your left.

Set up the oompah escape by bending at the waist and pushing your left elbow into their right knee, then stepping your left foot around theirs (pointing your knee out to the left instead of up will help keep this tight). 

If you can’t roll them, bridge to your right instead and once they base on the mat with their hand, hip out to escape. 

We did a long positional roll from mount after this. I went with a newer white belt and focused on escaping from bad positions. Good stuff!

[bephf]

BJJ Class

Dropped into a 6am class at Bay Jiu-Jitsu after a long night of traveling. Only got about 3 hours of sleep and wasn’t feeling my best, but was excited to train. We did a super quick warm-up, then some drills on the torreado pass and a variation where you have to step over an opponent who turns into you to defend. Then we worked on a technique to take the back from the bottom of half guard:

On your right side, on the bottom of half guard, block opponent’s left arm with both of your hands on their arm. 

Make some space and then swim your left arm under and grab onto opp’s belt (or pants by the waist).

Lay your right leg flat on the mat and get your left butterfly hook in.

Grab opp’s pants by the knee with your right as you lift up the left foot.

Pull your right leg out and get your hook in for a back take, establish seat belt grip.

This felt very foreign to me and I’m certain I wasn’t doing it right, but something to think about and work on! Then we did about 30 min of live rolling. I didn’t have any success against a similarly sized, similarly skilled white belt and a bunch of blues. I got a few sweeps in but mostly wound up in a lot of bad positions and got tapped. Also rolled with the brown belt instructor who gave me some good tips on escaping the mount and let me drill that a bit.

When you’re mounted, bridge up your hips immediately and keep them up.

Keep your elbows down inside opp’s thighs to keep them from climbing up you.

Look to capture either arm for the oompa, but if opp reaches way forward to stay out of your range, you can grab the sleeve and circle it out.

Once you have an arm (left in this case), bring your head towards your right shoulder and bridge higher to sweep.

Tough class! Looking forward to sleeps so I can get back on the mat tomorrow.