rear mount and turtle escapes Flashcards
What are the steps to the rear mount sliding elbow escape?
opponent has seatbelt- move away from strangle hand
When someone has our back and has a seatbelt grip, our 1st battle is to get inside position on their stangle hand at the wrist, with our thumb, then we must
- the 2nd battle is to ensure we fall to the side on which his strangle hand is pointing, so if his strangke hand is his right hand and you imagine he pointed his finger out, he’d be pointing to the left
- you must now use your right leg as a brace leg to push off, and turn your left leg outward and sgraighten it as you push off your right leg, this will make you both fall to the left, where his strangle hand would ‘be pointing’
- our 3rd battle is fir head position, our opponent wants his head lower than ours. so we must now get a two-on-one grip on his strangle hand, and pull his hands down lower to our sternum, giving us space to move our own head
- now we must ‘beat the head trap’ we bring our head forward in front of his and rotate it through and down to the mat, beating his head trap. Once we have beat the head trap we now need to..
- beat his bottom hook. bracing agasint the floor with our original bracing leg, we must then point our other leg (the one we turned and straightened out to become the bottom leg on the ground), we point it toward the ceiling, bringing it up high between his two feet and stepping over his bottom hook
- now we use our bracing leg to stand on his bottom hook as we move our hips out to the side
- our next battle is for elbow position. as we shrimp our hips put further to the mat we must focus on bringing our inside elbow to the floor inbetween us and our opponent as a frame, this signals that you have now escaped your opponent’s rear mount
- our opponent will now try to regain top position, so we take our outside leg and insert it as a butterfly hook, so as he tries to come up to top position we can extend him away, elbow escape etc, put him in guard
What do we do if our opponent is threatening the strangle with a lapel grip when they have rear-mount?
-as soon as we feel him grip our lapel we take our arm on his underhook side and get a 4 finger grip at the cuff on his strangle hand
-our other hand grips at the sleeve at his upper arm close to the tricep and we pull it down towards our sternum
-now we use a bracing leg and an extending leg to push us to fall in the direction that the strangle hand is pointing
holding our grips still so he cant strangle we then
- bring our bottom knee up towards the ceiling in between his feet and over the top of his bottom hook to the outsude on the floor
- we then start turning into our training partner, bringing our hips out over his bottom leg
- we then stand on his bottom leg/hook with our original bracing leg to help us beat his bottom hook
- we keep shifting outwards to the side, to create enough space to get our elbow toward the floor inbetween us, now if we can, we bring our knee to our elbow to create a v frame
- as he tries to get on top of us we can either put him into half guard, then elbow escape agasin to full guard
- or as he comes up on top we insert our outside leg as a butterfly hook behind his leg and extend him away to realign and enter some form of open guard
When and how would we sliding-elbow escape on the opposite side of rear mount? (not falling the way his strangle hand is pointing)
-if we catch the opponent’s strangle hand early, where he hasnt sunk in a lapel grip that tight (see pic in Q card)
-then we can secure our grips (cuff grip and upper sleeve grip)
and we can start to slide down his body just enough to frame agasint his arm, elevating it just enough to slip our head under his elbow
- dont try to not slide down and just muscle his arm over your head like a shoulder press, thats fucking dumb, shrimp your hips out and away the other side to help
-now use your far leg as a brace leg to push off the floor, taking your head to the mat underneath his arm
- from this postition point your bottom knee at the ceiling and raise it through the middle of his feet and step over his bottom hook, or step on it with the same foot, then pass it off to your other foot to step on
- keep moving your body oiut to the side
-** as soon as you can, get your elbow to the floor between you and the opponent**
- as he tries to regain top position, insert a butterfly hook woth your outside leg behing his knee so you can extend him and come back to seated guard etc
- if you feel like you can beat him before he tries to transition back to top, then use your outside leg to pendulum up and try take top position yourself (this works if you have some from of weight on him after escaping)
How do we escape a face-down back mount?
from a face down turtle rear back mount we must:
- put our head down to the floor
- perfrom a forward roll over one shoulder
- this takes us into the rear mount position where we can perfrom our sliding elbow escape
how do we escape a face-down rear mount if our opponent is basing out wiht his hands?
the fact that he is basing out with his hands, thinking he will prevent a forward roll, will not stop the roll because we are going to roll at an angle not in the direction of his base, its more to the side (see danaher pointing in the Q card pic)
- even if he hooks in tight and bases hard, our angle of roll will still take us over into the rear mount position where we can start performing our rear-mount sliding elbow escapes
what do we do if our opponent has a tight-wasit grip on us while we’re in a turtle position, how do we counter?
we utilise the Makikomi Roll.
when we are turtled and an opponent has a tight waist grip we must :
-take our same side arm as his (if he has tight waste with left arm, we use left arm).. we take a palm up grip and overwrap his arm and trap it tight into our ribs, preventing him from snatching it out
-we then turn our head inwards towards his hips (se epic in Q card) so that his elbow gets ‘caught in the geometry of our ribs)
- now from here, our head goes down to the mat and we extend our outside leg and roll over our side, in the direction of his trapped elbow is pointing
- we should now end up in a quasi reverse-sit-out position (see pic in A card)
- now our elbow slides up to his armpit as a reverse underhook, and our hips go higher than his hips
- we release his trapped arm and grap the knee/pants by his knee of his far leg and drag them intowards us, bringing his 2 knees together.
- we step over his pinned legs and use our heel to rake his legs back in to take the mounted position
what do we do if we are in turtle position, the opponent has a tight waist grip, we elect to use the makikomi roll, but he manages to rip his hand out, preventing the makikomi roll escape?
we utilise a shoulder roll.
after the opponent frees his trapped hand, he will lose contact with us, therefore we lose the ability to use the makikomi roll.
we must perform a shoulder roll to realign with our opponent
opponent has tight waist
What are the steps to the shoulder roll escape from turtle?
we never want to perform a shoulder roll escape while our opponent’s hips are covering ours so:
- we cover our neck, bring our head/shoulder close to the mate a we swisher our legs out to the side (see pic in Q card) to bring our hips out from under the opponent’s hips
- now we must come up to the tripod position where we push off our feet, extend our legs and come up to a tripod stance where only our feet and shoulder are on the floor
- he still has his tight waist in place, so now its his tight waist vs our hips
- our hips must go behind his tricep
- to avoid him pushing down agasint our hips and flattening us out, our back leg (the one closest t opponent’s legs) must be planted strong to resist
- once our head is between our knees and our weight is against the back of his arm we can push into him, with his armpit as the target we push against
- our opponent will pull his arm out to turn to face us
- now we can get our legs back to an inside position
- from here we can come back to seated guard into an offensive position, getting our grips
During the shoulder roll escape from turtle, where the opponent has a tight waist, there will be a battle between our opponent’s elbow vs our hips. how can we use ‘posting hands’ to assist us in this battle?
when we have come up into the tripod position, our opponent will want to use his elbow to push our hips back to the ground to flatten us out, neutralising our shoulder roll escape.
we can use a thumb post to help us win this battle:
- we take our thumb and post it inside our partners elbow
- as he tries to hold our hips with his tight waist elbow, we can push it away, exposing his armpit (see pic in Q card)
- and as a result our hips can gain the inside position inside his armpit
- now we can bring our leg behind his arm pit (see pic in Ans card)
- our second leg can come around the corner as we realign and lock up a closed guard
how and when can we use the idea of ‘putting his tight waist hand in our back pocket’, to assist us while performing a shoulder roll escape from turtle, when our opponent has a tight waist?
usually we would use our opposite hand to monitor the opponent’s strangle hand (our left against the threat of his right hand).
but if we can use our usual(opposite) hand to grip and pass off his strangke hand to our other hand (straight grip his strangle hand), then we can use our usual monitor hand to:
- seize our opponent’s tight waist hand at the knuckle line
- gripping at the knuckle line we ‘put his tight waist in our back pocket’ by putting it on our glute
- swisher our legs out as we do this, taking our hips out from underneath his hips
- this greatly rreduces the effectiveness of his tight waist
- now as we tripod up, its a lot easier for us to push our hips into his arm pit and a lot harder for him to stop our shoulder roll
what are the steps to the turtle inside leg escape, when the opponent is covering our hips with his?
we are in the turtle position, our opponent has a seatbelt grip and his hips are covering our hips. we must:
- firstly, monitor his strangle hand. If our opponent is on our left side then our right hand takes an inside thumb-post on his left overhand strangle hand
- from here we bring our other elbow inside his leg on the floor as we start the action of ‘turning the corner’ with our head. as though we want to take our left ear to our opponent’s left knee, our feet swisher out so we become more perpendicular to our opponent.
- this will make our opponent’s right near come down to the floor
- now we take our left leg and step over his right leg, overhooking his leg
- we take our right knee and slide it to his left knee (see Q card pic) so we are now on our side/hip
- we are now in a perfect position to start a back-rolling action to take him over
- we should have his lower right leg trapped so he cant transition to rear mount as we rolled
- once we our both on our backs we must immediately take our inside elbow (left elbow in this example) and bring it to the floor inbetween us. this means that even if he did get lapels he couldnt strangle because the angle is all wrong
- now we turn in towards him, and he will be concerened about recovering top position
- we anticipate him transitioning to top position so we bring our outside knee (right knee in this case) and bring it toward our chest
- so as he comes up on top he will come onto our butterfly hook
- we can now regain inside position with our limbs utilise open guard
during the inside leg turtle escape (opp covering hips). What detail makes it easier for us to capture his leg?
-opponent is on our left, has a tight waist, and is covering our hips we start by monitoring the strangle hand
-take our feet and swisher them out and away from opponent
- we turn our head around the corner t his far hip, with the goal of making us more perpendicular to him, bringing our hips out from underneath his hips
- this makes it easier for us to bring our inside leg up and over his near side leg to capture it, as we are not being blocked by his hips (see pics)
- as we sit to a hip we hook his leg tight, using both our legs to hold his trapped leg, so he can’t pull it out or step around to our back
- now we can perfrom a back roll to take him over
- now we are both facing the cieling
- we focus on getting our inside elbow between us and to the mat, so the stangle is no longer a threat to us
- if he is naive we can turn into him and take top position
- however if he isn’t naive he will try to regain top position so we put our outside foot inside his thighs and as he tries to come up on top, we use a butterfly hook to extend him away and come up to butterfly guard
How do we use the inside leg escape, when the opponent has a tricep wedge turtle position?
-as always we monitor the strangle hand (if his right hand is the overhand/sttrangle hand then our left hand gets a thumb-post on his wrist
-we must be aware that our free/basing hand is vulnerable to his basing leg trapping it and going into ‘cricifixes’ so we bring our free hand intoward our sternum
- our head comes to the floor as it turns around the corner towards his hips inside his legs
- we start the action of slouching to our hip and bringing our bottom knee to his knee
- our outside leg steps over his near leg to capture it
- we back roll him over
- now we focus on getting our inside elbow to the floor between us and the opponent.=, rendering his strangle attempts useless
- if he’s naive we turn into the strangle and take top position
- if he’s not naive and tries to take top position we bring our outside knee to our chest and focus on putting the foot between his thighs, so he comes up onto a butterfly hook
- we use the butterfly to frame/extend him away, bring our other butterfly hook in and regain guard
when using the inside-leg escape from the tricep-wedge turtle position.. why is the detail of ‘slouching to a hip’ so important?
when we turn into the opponent and slouch to our hip, this makes our opponent’s hips rise away from his ankle. this is key for us to be able to expose his ankle to capture it.
our bottom knee slodes to his knee and our outside leg steps over to capture his leg before we back-roll him through
