Mount Escapes Flashcards
What are the steps to escape mount using the standard bridge escape method?
In the gi:
- take a 4 finger cross grip at the elbow pit on the Opp’s arm and push his same side hand towards the centreline
- take a straight arm grip with your other hand, on the opp’s same arm, at the tricep seem of his gi close to his tricep/armpit
- block his foot with your foot at the ankle, on the same side of the trapped arm
- use your hips to bump him forward so his free hand bases on the mat
- lock your elbow (the one with the tricep seem grip) over his same-side knee, and keep it pinned in close
- now perform an asymmetrical bridge, to displace him to one side, point your foot-blocking knee to the side you’re bridging, and the other knee faces more upwards, as the initial driving force in the bridge (don’t bridge straight up)
- look over your shoulder to where you want your opponent to land, as you bridge, in a quasi overhead/over shoulder direction
- as you bridge him over, your initial driving leg loses power, once the opponent is over, you push off your initial pointing leg to finish the movement, by whipping it over, to go from chest up to chest down, in your opponent’s guard
- keep the 4 finger elbow pit grip as inside position after you’ve bridged him over
- pummel hands inside his biceps to gain inside position and now go into passing etc
What do we do when the opponent bases in the direction we are bridging, when performing the bridge mount escape?
When our opponent bases out after our initial bridge, preventing us from easily taking him over, we must:
- turn and tilt our head, to look directly over head, almost behind us, basically look completely North
- this means as we push off our initial driving bridge leg, and transfer our weight to the initial pointing/directional leg, to whip around, his base hand means nothing
- gain inside position at his biceps and posture up to not give away back exposure and have good base
What do we do when our opponent shifts his weight away from our bridge, preventing us from performing the standard bridge escape from bottom mount?
After we have our grips (cross 4 finger elbow pit grip, straight tricep seem grip) and we block the foot.. our opponent bases his head/weight away from the side we want to bridge him. We must:
- Perform a small bump bridge to get his head towards centreline
- we then release our tricep seem grip
- reach up over toward his head and get a grip on the collar of his gi, where the tag would be, thumb in grip
- pull his head right back over to the side of your body that you are bridging
- now even if he bases it means nothing
- perform the bridge, bridge him over
- gain inside position at the biceps and posture up
What do we do when our opponent grapevine his legs in mount, preventing us from using our legs to bridge to escape mount?
When an opponent grapevines our legs we:
- externally rotate one foot outwards and extend our leg to pommel outwards
- once its out, bring that foot to inside position by your arse
- do the same with the other leg, bring it to inside position close to your arse
- you have now cleared the grapevines
How do we use a mis-directional bridge when attempting to use the bridge mount escape, after our opponent has based out, with his arm across our centre line?
When we set up the bridge escape and get our grips on one of his arms, and block a leg on the same side, our opponent will know he is about to be bridged, so often he will base out to prevent us bridging him. If he bridges across our centre line, we must:
- let go of our straight tricep seem grip and overwrap his opposite-basing arm.
- we then release our cross elbow-pit grip, and block his leg on the opposite side as before
- with our initial cross elbow-pit gripping hand, we now reach over the opponent’s head and get a scapula grip on the back of his gi
- now we bridge escape to the opposite side as before, completing a mis-directional bridge, based on our opponent shutting down our initial bridge attempt
How do we use misdirection to set up a bridge escape from mount?
We set up for the bridge escape as normal (trapping an arm with a tricep seem grip, and cross elbow-pit 4 finger grip) but:
- instead of blocking the leg on the same side as the arm traps, we block on the opposite leg and perform a bridge to the opposite side, forcing him to base out to the opposite side
- after he bases he will try to correct himself by basing to the initial side
- before he corrects his base we trap the initial correct side
- perform the bridge as normal before he gets a chance to base again
- bridge him over, get inside position on the biceps
- go into passing etc
how do we escape from mount, when our opponent has a crossface, making our attempts at bridge escape very difficult?
When our opponent is crossfacing us in mount we must:
- get inside position at the bicep of his basing arm
- get outside position at his ankle on the same side
- shoot your arm over the basing arm and overwrap it, bringing everything in tight
- perform a bridge to the side of the trapped arm and leg, this will likely fail as he will probably still be able to base with the trapped hand and his head
- but he has now released some pressure on the crossface
- now we gain inside position of the trapped ankle (bring foot back inside)
- keep the overwrap grip on the trapped basing arm
- press your head into the ground to trap his crossfacing arm
- trap the leg on the opposite leg with outside position on the opponent’s ankle
- bridge escape to the opposite side (the crossface side) to take him over
- gain inside position of his biceps
- posture up
- go into passing
How do we use the misdirection of a bridge escape attempt to set up the elbow escape from mount?
We set up for the bridge escape as normal - get 4 finger elbow-pit cross grip, and the straight tricep seem grip on the same arm BUT :
- we PURPOSELY DON’T trap the leg with outside positon at the ankle, we keep both feet inside his legs
- THE ELBOW OF THE CROSS GRIP GOES INTO HIS HIP BONE AS A DRIVING ELBOW- DO NOT PUT IT ACROSS HIS CENTRELINE as this EXPOSES OUR BACK
- do we perform a strong asymmetrical bridge into our opponent DRIVING WITH OUR ELBOW to take our opponent over
- he will base out with his leg on the floor
- perform a rising shrimp (shrimp while bringing your bottom knee to your elbow of the tricep grip side and elbow escape on the basing leg
- get inside position with the butterfly hook you now have
- extend it away to create space between you and opponent
- realign with him
- regain butterfly guard
When and how do we use the ankle-trap mount escape method?
When our opponent has mount and his feet aren’t in tight towards our hips, theybare further out than they should be, so he is vulnerable to the ankle escape. Firstly we need our opponent’s weight off of his knees as much as possible, so we must:
- get our elbow frame across his hips, one forearm goes across his hipline, with the elbow at one hip and the hand on the other
- our secondary hand props up our primary hand, with the elbow on the floor, inside the opponent’s knee, on the ankle trap side
- you now need to slightly shrimp and turn toward the ankle trap side and obtain the ‘long/short’ position, where the leg on the ankle trap side extends and pressures down into the floor, and the other leg is bent
- your ‘long leg’ now bends and pressures up into the knee, while the elbow pushes down on the knee at the same time, this will elevate the opponents ankle
- now your bent leg can reach over and capture the ankle
- lock a triangle on the ankle
- now switch your hips from facing outward towards the ankle-trap side to more facing up (think hips move from facing East to West)
- this will elevate his knee off the mat
- put your elbow underneath the knee and brush it between your legs, capturing the knee with your legs
- you have now captured the knee after capturing the ankle
- quickly put an elbow frame across his shoulder so he cant crossface you back to the mat
- now plant your outside foot on the ground as you shrimp your hips out ot the opposite side as before, BUT KEEP A SCISSORING FORCE ON HIS CAMPUTED LEG TO PREVENT HIM FROM ESCAPING
- now put your bottom elbow inside his other knee and bring your inside-bottom knee to your elbow, then slide it into the pocket of his far hip
- now realign your body with him
- now shrimp your hips the opposite way again (back to the same side as the initial ankle trap side) to give you space to free your other knee thats at the pocket of the hip
- realign with opponent
- lock up closed guard
- get cross collar grip etc, go into forms of attack
What is a common error people perform when trying to execute the ankle trap escape, regarding the knee?
A common error that is seen often, is people often successfully trap the ankle, then they try and turn into the opponent to elbow escape the other side WITHOUT CAPTURING THE KNEE FIRST ON THE ANKLE TRAP SIDE, they then fail the escape. You MUST:
-Capture the knee!!! only then is it safe to turn to the opposite side to begin elbow escaping the other knee
What is the demarcation line that lets us know our opponent has a high mount and what method do we use it to fix the issue?
The demarcation line of a high mount is our opponent’s hips being above our belt line. We cannot tolerate this as we are more vulnerable to attacks, and elbow escaping from here would be dangerous. To counter this we must:
- get our hip frame (one arm across the hip line with elbow on one hip bone, hand on the other- then our secondary hand propping up the primary hand, with elbow on the ground)
- we then use a serpentine motion were we shoulder walk by shuffling our shoulders and using our legs, while framing/pushing against our opponent’s hips
- once the opponent’s hips are below our belt line, we can now go into the ankle-trap escape
How do we use ‘foot-fighting’ when an opponent has tightly locked his feet, preventing us from completing the ankle trap escape?
First we must use our elbow frame at the hips to prevent the opponent getting a high mount
Then, no matter how tight he locks his feet, we can always get our right foot to his right foot, and our left to his left.
so take your right foot to his right foot, push down and out to sperate his feet then bring your left foot to inside position of his right foot and then your knee to the floor inside and under the right foot
perform ankle trap escape
how do we use a ‘fish hook’ method to help us gain access to the ankle for the ankle-trap escape, if we for whatever reason cant slide our knee directly under the ankle?
During an attempt at the ankle trap escape, if we are using our elbow pushing down, and knee pushing up on the knee/ankle but still can’t get our knee under his ankle, then we can:
- use our secondary foot to reach over and ‘fish-hook’ underneath the ankle we want to trap to elevate it and get our primary knee under neath
- capture his ankle
- lock a triangle
- perform the rest of the ankle trap escape
When and how do we perform a mount elbow escape, by capturing the knee directly?
When we are mounted and our opponent has his feet in close together and we can’t access an ankle to trap, we must capture the knee directly to elbow escape:
- Firstly we must get our elbow frame across his hip line
- perform an asymmetrical bridge and turn to your side with the goal of taking his head position from centerline to OUTSIDE HIS OWN KNEE
- make sure you POINT YOUR KNEE DOWNWARDS
- shrimp and slip your knee inside his knee and inside your own bottom elbow
- plant your foot on the floor and extend backwards to realign with your opponent
- you now have one butterfly hook in
- frame on his shoulders on the other side
- repeat the elbow escape on the opposite side
- get cross collar grip
- you’re now in full butterfly guard
why and how do we move our opponent’s head offline, when they have the mounted position?
when our opponent has the mount, and his centerline is aligned with ours, this means his center of gravity is also aligned with ours, giving his good base, making our escapes harder to perform. to move his head offline we must:
- use our hip frame
- perform a RISING SHRIMP, by first bridging asymmetrically to the side of our hip frame, with the goal of getting his head past the line of his knee on that side (his knee being his primary base of support, with the hand on that side also supporting him
- this means that all of his weight is now on one side, supported by the hand and knee
- this makes it easy for us now to SHRIMP our hips away and bring our bottom elbow and knee together forming a V-FRAME
- as our opponent corrects himself we now have the inside position on one side and we can bring our other limbs into the inside position and regain some form of guard (butterfly/closed depending)
Why would we use a hand to help with the elbow escape instead of the elbow to get elbow-knee frame when elbow escaping?
if an opponent is taller than you and you cant get your elbow inside to knee when performing the elbow escape, it is safe to use a hand to assist in pushing on the knee instead:
- get the hip frame
- asymmetrical bridge to the side
- your elbow doesn’t reach
- use your hand instead
- frame/push with hand
- invert your bottom knee and bring it inside to touch your hand on the inside position
- extend and align with opponent
frame on his opposite shoulder as you shrimp out to the other side
elbow escape the other side
regain guard
What is the iron rule of framing for the elbow escape?
While obtaining the hip frame for the elbow escape our hip frame, our primary frame is the arm/elbow that goes to the mat that goes inside the opponent’s knee.
the secondary frame is the arm that goes across the opponent’s hip line with the elbow on the bone of the far hip.
the iron rule of framing in the elbow escape is:
- OUR SECONDARY ELBOW DOES NOT PASS THE CENTRELINE (NAVEL)
- THIS MISTAKE WITH GIVE OUR OPPONENT BACK EXPOSURE
How do we deal with a ‘trapped leg’ when performing the elbow escape, and our opponent locks his leg tight, making it hard to just invert our knee and bring it inside?
When this happens we obviously keep our frame on the hips and then :
- plant our ‘top’ leg on the floor to push into it
- then we ‘shimmy’ and shake our bottom leg as we bring it inside
- then extend and realign with opponent
- from on his other shoulder
- perform the elbow escape on the other side
- regain guard
how do we deal with a crossface when going for an elbow escape?
When the opponent has mount and a crossface, if we don’t already have the hip frame we must:
- put our primary hand on the hip and perform a little hip bump to make space to shoot our secondary frame through across his hip line (elbow on the hip not going across centerline)
- then lock up the hip frame by supporting the secondary hand with the primary hand
- position your feet ready to perform the asymmetrical bridge (foot/knee turned out on the side of the hip frame, other knee pointing up)
- as he puts the crossface pressure on we go with the crossface by performing the rising shrimp (we perform an asymmetrical bridge that takes alll his weight onto his basing hand and knee) then we shrimp our hips back away from his base
- now that all his weight/ base is on his one side, he can’t apply crossface pressure
- now even if he tries to apply his crossface and lock his feet tight, we can simmy out bottom leg while framing and bring our bottom knee inside his knee to out elbow
- align with opponent
- frame on his other shoulder
- elbow escape on the other side
- gain all the inside position
- regain some from of guard
How do we escape when an opponent is transitioning to mount from side control, when they are using the knee-drive method?
when we are in side control and our opponent choses to use the ‘knee-drive’ method to transition to mount we must:
- turn on our side and split our legs if we don’t do this and stay facing the ceiling we won’t be able to trap his leg
- by splitting our legs we create a space, where as he continues into mount, we can trap his ankle by triangling our legs
- once we have his leg trapped we shift our hips in the opposite direction to bring his knee off the mat
- now we can frame/push on his knee with our hand, and then capture his knee with a triangle
- now we can frame on his far shoulder
- elbow escape on the other side
- lock up closed guard
how do we escape when our opponent is transitioning to mount from side control, using the knee drive method, and has gone too far for us to trap the knee-driving leg?
we must capture the rear leg
when our opponent’s knee-drive knee goes past our centerline his weight is transferred to that knee, making his rear trailing leg lighter so we must:
-put your hip framing elbow under the knee of his rear trailing leg and push down
- bring your knee underneath his leg to your elbow and capture his trail leg
- you can capture the knee directly from here, no need to trap the ankle first
- you’re now in half guard
how do we escape when an opponent is transitioning from side control to mount, using the step over method?
we perform an ankle-trap on the rear leg.
when an opponent sits through facing our feet, its safe to assume he is going to try to step over and take mount. To escape this transition we must:
- listen for his foot hitting the mat when he steps over, as he’s doing this we bring our foot close to his trail-leg ankle, which is lighter than his step over leg now
- now we bring our knee underneath his ankle, step over with our other leg to hook it, trapping the ankle
- now if our opponent stays here he is exposing his back, which we could take advantage of, however he will most likely try to realign
- now we complete the elbow escape by framing and escaping the other leg to regain guard
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