kesa gatame (sit out) Flashcards
What can we do in regard to elbow position, when we anticipate that our opponent is about to transition from side control to kesa-gatame (sit out position)?
-If we anticipate our opponent is about to switch to kesa gatame, we pull our elbow to the floor by his bottom hip as an anticipatory reaction, to frame against him.
- Now we can bring our second hand in front of his chest and frame against his shoulder line.
- Now we take 3 small shrimps out away from our opponents’ hips to create enough space to shoot our bottom knee into the gap at his hip that we created.
- now we extend our opponent away and realign our centerline with our opponent’s using the serpentine motion of the elbow escape
how do we regain the elbow frame at his bottom hip in kesa gatame if we have lost it and our opponent has it wedged on his top hip?
- we bring our secondary hand in front of his shoulders/chest
- then we start the action of shrimping and turning onto our side
-then we take our secondary hand across to his far shoulder and thumb post inside the opponent’s bicep
-now as we frame with our secondary hand/thumb post we pull our primary elbow to the floor at his bottom hip - now we shrimp our hips away from the opponent while pushing against him with our elbow frame to create space
- now we bring our bottom knee through to the pocket of his hip
- realign with opponent
- put him back into some form of guard
How do we create space for the elbow escape from kesa-gatame, if our opponent keeps following our hips when we shrimp, preventing us creating space for our knee?
when shrimping fails, we need to use the reverse shrimp
- we throw our feet out away from the opponent to create distance
- #plant our outside foot
- perform a reverse shrimp to drag our hips further wasy from the opponent, creating a far bigger gap, to we flip back to facing towards him
- get our knee in the gap of the opponent’s hip
- perform the elbow escape
- extaned away/realign
- put him back in guard
how do we escape the Reverse-sit-out, using the bridge to elbow escape?
we anticipate that our opponent is going to move into the reverse sit-out position, as we see his arm move into the reverse crossface position:
-we make sure we have our forearm frame at his inside hip
- as he sits out we turn on our side to face him with the forearm frame at the hip close to the floor
- our secondary arm is in a sort of bicep crass face position
- we now threaten a strong bridge into our opponent, forcing a defensive reaction (otherwise we would just bridge him over)
- as he defensively fights to base and realign, we elbow escape in the space that is created by his defensive reaction
- now we use the serpentine motion of our hips to lock up our guard
What do we do when our opponent ‘plays the waiting game’ before transitioning from reverse sit out to attempting to mount? (holding us in place, making it difficult to bridge etc)
-We take our secondary hand (top hand, not the hip frame bottom hand) and post it inside his bicep of the arm holding our gi pants
- then we take our top knee and post it in front of his bicep while gripping the sleeve with your secondary hand (like a quasi spider guard)
- now as we open our knee to the outside and pull him back onto his knees with the quasi-spider guard
- it opens up the space at his hips for us to elbow escape with our other knee/elbow
- now you can realign and put him in some form of guard
How do we use a bridge to counter an opponent when they are in reverse-sit out but manage to step over us to mount?
from the bottom of reverse-sit out we time a counter-bridge reversal:
we wait for the precise moment we hear our opponents foot hit the mat and we perform a hard bridge to take them over. It’s the timing that makes this simple reversal work
What do we do if an opponent steps over softly from reverse-sit out into mount, preventing us from hearing the foot hit the mat, to time a counter bridge reversal?
if he steps softly, then we must rely on feeling his knee touch the side of our hip
as soon as we feel his knee on the hip then we bridge into him to take him over
How do we counter an opponent when he manages to transition from reverse sit out into full mount, and we missed our chance to time the counter bridge?
-as our opponent takes mount we catch his arm and trap it into his side
-we also trap the ankle/leg on the same side
- he will be driving his body weight forward as he takes mount so we can reverse him with Upa
If our opponent is heavy and bridging seems difficult, how do we escape the reverse sit out to mount transition, focusing on the ‘trail leg’?
if our opponent is larger and we cant bridge reverse him we can time his transition to mount and trap his trail leg and use it to elbow escape:
-First we must be on our side, with our forearm frame at his hip
-As the opponent steps over us with his lead leg, his weight starts shifting with it, making the trail leg lighter
- from here we can reach over with our top leg and overhook his trail leg at the ankle
- now we can use our forearm to push down on the trapped knee, as our bottom knee slides up to meet our elbow, to elbow-escape into half guard, then elbow escape the other side to full guard or enter into butterfly etc
