#mount escapes

[themostinterestingbeard]

BJJ Class #51

Wednesday 08/26/15

Started Class with some Judo led by Andy Sensei. Just walking back and forth taking turns stepping in for a hip throw with either your hand around the waist or holding both sleeves. Then James took over and we looked some more at escaping mount. He really emphasized the importance of turning your knee out and down to the ground on the trap and roll. And when you elbow escape people will sometimes try to window wiper pass to side control and we looked at how you can trap their leg if you keep your knee on their butt. Some people will try to go to technical mount. Switch your frame from your hand to your elbow to prevent that. If they do get to technical mount, defend your neck with your cross hand grabbing high on the wrist, get to your knees, grab their ankle that’s by your waist, bridge up, shrimp back and pull your knee in under theirs, trap the ankle with your other foot and roll them back. I struggled getting my knee under but my partner was pretty stiff in the hips and there were a few points where I could have just gotten straight out without sweeping.

[mmawelshy]

MMA Mount Escapes that I use

Hip - hop Palm and knee BJJ hip escape

Bridge if someone is holding me down

http://youtu.be/diySqEsix0Q

[jvonlembke]

September 18, 2013

I did two hours tonight, both in Gi and both taught by Chaun Simms black belt.

The first hour was continuing with half guard passes. We learned two.

The first was pretty simple: move to position 3, bring the trapped leg up as close as possible to your butt, then wait for them to try to bridge you and kick up and move to side control.

The second was a new one for me. You go to the same position 3 with the trapped leg up close to your butt, but then you put your hand through their locked legs/feet, post your other knee on their stomach/hip, and push down with your other leg while pulling up with the hand. This breaks open their half guard and allows you to then move to side control.

The second hour as mount escapes. We worked mostly on one that Avery taught a variation of a  few weeks back.

From your back you essentially throw one leg over your other leg and trap their foot, then drag it across your other leg and trap to 3/4 mount. You can then work back to half guard. Drilled that most of class.

[jvonlembke]

August 6, 2013

Class was taught by Avery. We are in the midst of mount escape week.

We reviewed three mount escapes. 

The first was a simple shrimp, obtain half-guard, obtain full guard/butterfly. The difficult part was turning enough to trap the opponent's leg under your far leg without having your back taken.

The second escape was the "table" escape or "buck and roll". Covered this one many times.

The third was new to me. Avery called it the "Nate Escape" because, apparently, Nate Marquardt taught it to Amal Easton. You essentially, bridge straight up, then, concurrently, lift the opponent even higher with your hands on their hips, then bring your knees inside of his guard, so the opponent lands in your butterfly guard.  It was a pretty good escape, but not sure if it'll be easy to hit in live conditions. 

We didn't do any live rolling and spent the whole class drilling.

[jvonlembke]

August 5, 2013

Today's class was taught by Avery. We did some review of mount escapes.

Started off with a few minutes of practicing good bridging, then practiced moving the opponent from high mount down to low mount.

We really only drilled one escape; what I think is referred to as the table escape. You essentially knee the mounted opponent in the back to get them on their hands, trap one arm, trap the same side leg, and bridge/sweep.

Followed all this up by live rolling.  Got matched up with Avery at one point who said, "Sweep and I'll give you your stripe..."

"Fuck."

Pretty much spent the next, what was probably 1-2 minutes, but felt like 4, attempting to escape. Came pretty close to giving up a few times (Avery is a beast; heavy, tight and doesn't give up position). In the end, I think he let me sweep him...still felt good and got my second stripe!

[kellymagovern]

BJJ mount escapes - Part 2

I really debated whether or not to make a second gif set of mount escapes. I thought it might be overkill, but there were just so many tiny details that I feel were left out of my first gif set. So, here is my second mount escapes gif set.

[kellymagovern]

BJJ mount escapes - Part 1

Part 2 can be found here.