Mount Escapes - Elbow Escape Method Flashcards
What method of elbow escape do we use if opponent is in a TIGHT MOUNT with their FEET TUCKED IN CLOSE preventing us from trapping an ankle?
If we can’t access ankles we must access knees directly
Frame on the hips- one elbow across line of hips, other elbow at opps knee propping the hip frame hand up- our elbow frame across hips never crosses opponents centre line, and we never cross our legs
We need to get opponents centre of gravity offline with our own
We do this with the RISING SHRIMP:-
- With our frame across the hips, elbow in front of opponents knee, we perform AN INITIAL BRIDGE with the intent of getting the opp’s head outside his own knee - all his weight is on his knee and same side hand
- now we shrimp hips out and bring our knee and elbow together, making our knee get the inside position
Opponent will align himself, we keep our knee/shin in inside position, use a shrimp/serpentine motion to regain open/butterfly guard
the rising shrimp puts all of opponents weight on one knee, as a result his head shifts to that same side
This allows us to invert knee (point knee at floor) and our hip frame allows is to bring our knee inside opponents weighted knee, bringing our ELBOW AND KNEE TOGETHER - V FRAME
Once we get the first knee inside, opponent will recover his head position and we elbow escape on the other side
Recover guard
What are the steps to the ankle-trap variation of the elbow escape, where we the opp doesn’t have a closed mount and we can access the legs?
- make sure opp’s weight isn’t just on knees, if it is bump him forward to get his hands on the mat
- place a forearm across Opp’s belt line (hip line) with elbow at the outside hip
- your second forearm props/reinforces by putting your hand underneath the wrist, and the elbow just inside the Opp’s knee
- turn your hips to the side of your grounded elbow (be on your side slightly)
- configure your legs in the long-short position (elbow escape side leg turned out, slightly extended- ‘long’ and the other leg bent and bracing on the ground -‘short’)
- push your long leg into the ground as slide your knee across the ground until you gain the inside position at the opp’s ankle, and under the shin- while pushing down on the opp’s knee with your ‘grounded’ elbow
- pushing up with your long leg and down with your elbow with elevate opponent’s ankle/foot
- reach across and over with ‘short’ leg and capture the elevated ankle
- lock a triangle with your long leg over your short leg to trap opponent’s ankle
- ’switch’your hips (turn them from facing to the side to more facing up
- this makes opponents knee come off the mat
- place your elbow underneath the opp’s knee
- push the knee between your legs, capturing the knee
- now frame across the opp’s shoulder so he can’t crossface you
- plant your foot and shrimp hips out to the side of your opp’s captured knee, keeping tension with your legs, to keep the opp’s knee trapped
- put your bottom elbow inside of the opp’s other knee
- bring your bottom knee through the gap between your elbow and his hip, at the pocket of his hip
- align yourself with opp (your head at his centreline)
- frame on the other side of oops shoulder
- shrimp hips out to the same side of the knee at the hip
- bring leg out from the opps hip
- lock up closed guard
What is the key series of movements to make the elbow escape effective- the same movement you use to get rid of opponents high mount ..?
The serpentine motion of moving your hips side to side-
It’s used in elbow escape to trap ankles/knees, and to lock up the closed guard thereafter
It’s also used when an opponent has a high mount, you use a frame on the opp’s hips, and use a serpentine hip movement abs you push the hips away with your frame, to ‘shoulder walk’ yourself away from the high mount
When someone has you in their mount, what is the important demarcation line you need to be aware of if you want to elbow escape?
We need to be aware of the opponent’s belly button not being above our hips.
We cannot tolerate their centre of gravity (belly button line) being above ours otherwise it will make escaping very difficult
If their belly button line is above ours we must shoulder walk whilst framing to get the demarcation line below ours before trying our elbow escapes
