Kesa-gatame Escapes (Sit Out Escape) Flashcards
What initial battle needs to be won, before we can escape from sit out?
The battle for elbow position. Our opponent will be working to elevate our inside elbow and keep it close to his top hip, to keep us pinned.
We need to work to get our elbow to the floor at his bottom hip
What are the steps to the anticipation method of escaping kesagatame?
- opponent has us in side control
- he releases the crossface and makes a reach for our elbow
- before he can get a grip of our elbow we bring it in close to our side and on the floor, so when he sits through, our elbow is already at the hip
- as he sits through and makes space at our chest- bring our outside hand through and frame with forearm across his chest
- take 3 smallish shrimps out with our hips away from opponent while framing to make space at his hips
- bring our bottom leg through the space at his hips , inside our own elbow - Vframe
- extend our body away from opponent by pushing off and away from him
- align ourselves with opponent
- frame where you can and out him back in guard
What are the steps to the kesagatame (sit out) escape?
•anticipate your opponent sitting out when he grabs your inside elbow from side control and put that elbow by your own hip, so when he sits out, you already have inside position at his hip
•if you can’t move your elbow, frame with you outside hand, forearm across Opp’s chest and thumb-post inside the armpit/bicep, frame and push agasint the opponent and pull your inside elbow out of his grip and to the floor inside his hip
• now that you have your inside elbow frame at the hip, frame against the hip and take 3 shrimps out with your hips away from Opp’s hips to create space
(IF OPPONENT FOLLOWS YOUR HIPS THEN TURN AWAY FROM OPPONENT, use a REVERSE SHRIMP TO CREATE A LARGER GAP then turn back towards opponent and carry on
•bring your bottom knee inside his hips and connect with your elbow frame to create V-frame
•extend your body away from your opponent/put him back in guard
What do we do if the opponent already has our elbow elevated, making it difficult to just pull it out of his grip, towards the floor, when trying to escape sit out?
- we take our outside hand and frame across the chest, putting a thumb post inside the opponents far armpit/bicep (like a reverse crossface with a thumb post)
- using this frame we simultaneously push with the frame hand and pull with our trapped elbow towards the floor to free it from the opponent’s grip
- put it straight on the floor inside the opponents hip if there’s space
- if the opp is tight to you, quickly shrimp out a little to make space then put your elbow inside
What do we do when we have our elbow frame in place, but every time we shrimp out to create space with our hips to make a v-frame, our opponent follows us shutting down the space?
- we slightly turn away and pendulum our legs/hips away from opponent slightly
- we then extend our outside leg out and away and perform a REVERSE SHRIMP and pull yourself away from the Opp
- the reverse ‘pulling’ shrimp will always create more space than a small standard ‘pushing’ shrimp
- turn back into the opponent with the larger gap
- bring bottom knee through to your framing elbow
- create v-frame
- extend away
- put opponent back in some form of guard
What steps can we do to anticipate the reverse sit-out pin to put us in a better position to escape?
When our opponent switches from a crossface to a reverse crossface, more often than not, they are going to transition to a reverse sit out pin
•keeping the elbow frame at the hip we always have in regular side control bottom, as the opponent starts to sit out we turn on our side, towards the opponent to make sure we keep inside position with our elbow frame at his hip
Our opponents goal is to get inside position inside our bottom elbow and walk it away from our centre line, and extend it above our head, blocking us from regaining inside position
•your outside/top hand stays in a bicep crossface position, hidden behind the back on the opp’s scapula so he can’t make grips on it
How do we use a misdirectional bridge to put the opponent back in guard from the bottom of a reverse sit-out pin?
After getting the reactive starting position on your side, facing opponent, with a frame under the opponent’s hips
If our opponent just holds the pin
- We threaten a strong bridge, forcing our opponent to react with a defensive reaction so he doesn’t get bridged over, he will push back into us to realign
- we create a v frame under neath our opponent
- put him back in guard
WE BASICALLY USE A BRIDGE TO GET THE OPPONENT TO REACT, CREATING SOACE TO ELBOW ESCAPE UNDERNEATH AND PUT HIM BACK IN GUARD
What do we do in a reverse sit out scenario when the opponent sits out and then grips our gi pants, extending his arm, blocking our top knee so we can’t perform a bridge into him?
- we take our top hand and post inside our opponent’s bicep
- shoot your knee inside his bicep (like a sort of spider guard)
- now you extend/open your knee to the outside, pulling your opponent back into his knees to align with us
- elbow escape
- put him back in guard
What reactive measure can we take when our opponent uses a reverse sit out and transitions to mount?
We use a method of escape based on anticipation.
- when the opponent transitions to mount and steps his foot over, his foot hitting the mat will make a sound
- as soon as you hear the sound you perform a strong bridge back into the opponent as he will have very little base behind him to stop a strong bridge based on his posture as he transitions
If the opponent is smart and he transitions without a strong step over, making it hard to hear the cue of his foot hitting the mat you must:
- anticipate the feel of his knee touching the side of the hip- NOT FEEL IT HITTING THE MAT, then it’s too late
- perform a strong bridge based on the feel of his knee on your hip
What do we do if our opponent transitions from reverse sit-out and manages to get mount?
•as soon as the opponent gets mount we trap the arm and leg just as he attains mount before he settles and bases and we perform an upa
What method of reverse-sit-out escape do we use after the opponent has stepped over to transfer to mount, focusing on the trail leg?
After assuming the correct position on your side, with your bottom arm framing on the hip:
- when the opponent steps over and his foot hit the floor, he will start transferring his weight into this leg, making the trail leg light
- you can now elbow escape on the light trail leg by bringing your bottom knee and elbow underneath his shin/knee..
- reach over with your top leg to trap the ankle
- start to realign with your opponent
- elbow escape to trap the knee
- elbow escape on the other side to trap the other knee
- use the serpentine motion to put the opponent back in guard
