12. Elbow Escape

Question 1

Elbow Escape
Slice 1: Shrimp Drill

Position: Mount

Indication: How do you shrimp for the Elbow Escape?

Answer 1

Lie flat on your back. One leg flat, the other as close to your bottom as possible.
Lift your hips so that your weight is on your posted foot and your opposite shoulder.
Roll to the side and extend your posted leg to move your hips out.

Question 2

Elbow Escape
Slice 2: Standard Elbow Escape

Position: Mount

Indication: Op has you in Mount with wide arms and heavy hips, preventing you from using the “Trap and Roll” technique

Answer 2

Wrap one arm around Op’s chest. Punch protection.
Your opposite arm pushes Op’s knee down with your elbow (or hand if you are shorter than your Op).
Post your leg on the hug side and rotate your hips to allow your other leg to lay flat on the ground with your knee parallel to the ground (and heavy, so that your Op can’t slide his foot under it).
Crunch your body so that Op’s knee comes off the ground at the same time your legs slips up through.
Your freed leg wraps around Op’s leg (or you can wrap with your inside leg and post with the other leg, but you must wrap).
Switch your arm positions and hold Op’s knee low with your elbow or hand.
Shrimp towards your freed leg to allow the leg in the middle to pull your knee up against Op’s thigh.
Hook your outside leg on Op’s back and shrimp towards the caught knee to allow it to swing through.
Shrimp back into Guard.

Question 3

Elbow Escape
Slice 3: Hook Removal addition to the Standard Elbow Escape.

Position: Mount

Indication: Op has you in Mount with wide arms and heavy hips, preventing you from using the “Trap and Roll”. To make matters worse they get their hooks in to immobilize your legs.

Answer 3

Point one leg at the sky and circle it to clear hook.
Use the freed foot to push Op’s other hook off.
Proceed with previous Elbow Escape, Slice 2.

Question 4

Elbow Escape
Slice 4: Fish Hook addition to the Standard Elbow Escape.

Position: Mount

Indication: Op has you in Mount with wide arms and heavy hips, preventing you from using the “Trap and Roll”. To make matters worse their knee is so heavy that you can’t pull your knee through on the “crunch” of the elbow escape.

Answer 4

When set up for the elbow escape (Elbow or hand against Op’s knee. One leg flat on the ground.)…
Reach your free foot over and slide your toes under the gap between Op’s ankle and the ground.
Move your down leg at the last second to hook you foot under.
Lift Op’s foot with the “crunch” of the elbow escape.

Question 5

Elbow Escape
Slice 3: Heel Drag addition to the Fish Hook Elbow Escape.

Position: Mount

Indication: Op has you in Mount with wide arms and heavy hips, preventing you from using the “Trap and Roll”. The “Fish Hook” escape doesn’t work because your Op keeps their knee heavy and allows you to ineffectually lift their foot and ankle while their knee stays heavy.

Answer 5

You’ve attempted the “Fish Hook” elbow escape and failed.
When Op lifts their ankle, swing the hooking foot over and bite their ankle with your knee.
-I can use my hand to hold their calf up to give me time to swing my leg around.
When you roll your hips away from your down leg, Op’s knee will be lifted up.