Rear Mount Escapes Flashcards
What are the key grips on the opponent’s strangle hand to negate the strangle?
Grip the cuff and tricep seem to pull the opponents elbow in front of our shoulder, preventing the finish of a strangle
How do we know which side to escape the rear mount?
The ideal side to escape to, will be the side of which the opponents ‘strangle hand’ is pointing.
The strangle hand will be the one that’s over the shoulder, the opponents other hand is usually underhooking your other shoulder for control
How do we make sure we fall to the side of the strangle hand, making it easier to escape?
We have the advantage of having our feet on the floor, our opponent doesn’t.
- we must use one leg as a ‘bracing leg’ to brace against the floor so our opponent runs into this resistance when he tries to fall to his ‘strangle hand’ side
- we must then move our head towards the side we want to fall to
- our secondary leg then turns outwards (point toes in the direction of fall) and it straightens as we push to with our brace leg, to fall to the floor on the side with the Opp’s strangle hand is pointing
What are the steps to the sliding elbow escape from rear mount when the opponent has a seat belt grip?
- Secure a 2on1 grip, ideally with a cuff grip and tricep seem grip (Gi) or a 2on1 cup grip with inside thumb position (no gi)
- have active legs (not feet in narrow making it earlier for Opp to topple you ) to give yourself base
- have a bracing leg (same side leg as your Opp’s strangle hand) and an extending leg (the same side leg that you’re falling to)
- turn your toes out on extending leg and straighten it as you push off your bracing leg to fall to floor and keep head towards mat
- once we are on the floor on the desired side, we must beat our training partners feet
- we want to attack the Opps BOTTOM foot, by straightening our leg and bringing it to our centre line and then bend our knee brining it through the Opp’s feet and pummelling it over the Opp’s bottom foot
- once we have escapes the bottom foot we now need to get our head to the floor and beat the head trap
- bring your head forward (towards your chest) and around the Opp’s head and to the floor
- now head is on the floor, we can walk our body out, shifting our hips towards the floor and standing on opp’s bottom foot with our ‘trapped’ secondary foot
- as we are sliding/shifting our hips and body towards the floor, we must bring our top elbow (the elbow not close to floor) between us and our Opponent
- as we inch out further from opponent our elbow must come closer to the mat before it’s finally on the ground in between us and opponent
- there is no longer any threat of strangle now
- if the opp is naive and doesn’t move instantly we can now use our grounded elbow/forearm to frame against opponents hips and turn into opponent
- if the opponent tries to scramble back to top position we can insert a butterfly hook with our outside leg to extend him as he tries to get back to top position an we can frame and put him back into open guard, butterfly guard etc
What can we do to our opponent’s hand position (seat belt grip), to make it easier for us to beat the head trap in the sliding elbow escape from rear mount?
We need to make take his hands closer downwards to our sternum, to create space to get our head in front of theirs and down to the mat.
The higher their hands are towards our neck/head, the more our head movement is restricted
What are the positional battles we face in regards to the sliding elbow escape from rear mount?
- 1- the battle for inside thumb position at the wrist of the strangle hand
- 2- the battle for direction (falling towards the side that the strangle hand is pointing (using a brace leg and straightening the other leg and turning to the floor on our side)
- 3- head position (get his seatbelt grip lower and bring your head forward, in front of his, then lower than his, to the mat)
- 4- beating the bottom hook ( point knee at the ceiling in between his feet, step over the hook, then stand on the bottom hook with your other foot and move out to the side)
- 5- the battle for elbow position ( get your elbow between you and opponent and to the floor as a frame)
6- get inside position with your legs and recover guard ( after you have the elbow frame between you, insert a butterfly hook with your outside leg to create distance, regain guard)
How do we still complete the sliding elbow escape from rear mount, while the opponent has lapel grips and is starting to strangle?
- as soon as we notice the opponent get his strangle hand inside our lapel we get a 4 finger cross grip on his cuff and a straight hand grip on the sleeve of his upper arm, with the goal of getting his elbow in front of our shoulder
- the next thing our opponent will want to do is get an angle on us and use his leg to strip the grip we have on his upper arm, you must use the Method of using a brace-leg and an extended turned out leg to fall to the mat on the side that his strangle hand is ‘pointing’
- pulling down on his elbow still, keeping it in front of your shoulder, get your head to the mat, beating his head trap
- point your bottom knee to the ceiling, bring it between his feet and step over his bottom hook, stand on his hook with your other foot and shrimp your hips out from your opponent, clearing his hook
- turn into your partner, keeping your four-finger cross grip on the cuff, focus on getting your other elbow between you and the opponent and onto the floor as a frame
- get inside position with your legs (get a butterfly hook with your outside leg to extend him away as he realigns and tries to get top position, or get half guard, or elbow escape and get closed guard etc)
When is it okay to escape to the opposite side of the direction the strangle hand is pointing, and still perform a sliding elbow escape from rear mount?
- if the opponent doesn’t have a seat belt grip, or lapel strangle grips, or a very loose/poor lapel grip.. we can get a 4finger cross cuff grip and a straight sleeve grip on his upper arm as usual, and we have control of his entire one arm
- we can now pull his elbow in front of us and slide our body down to duck under his arm as we pass it over us and hold it in place on the other side of our head
- we can now use a brace leg and extended turned out leg to fall in the opposite direction as usual (away from the direction his strangle hand was pointing
- keeping our sleeve grip on him, we can now point our hips and knees up at the ceiling, we bring our knee between his feet and step on his bottom hook
- if we are now on top of our opponents bottom hook/leg, turn into your opponent, put your top hand on his hip, pinning him to the floor and realign with him to get top position
- if we are more out to the side then we beat his bottom hook, we make sure our elbow comes between us and him and if he scrambles we get inside position with our legs (butterfly hooks) and extend away to regain guard
What do we do if we are in someone’s rear mount face down ? (Turtle position with opponent who has hooks in)
We perform a forward roll.
- put your head on the mat
- perform a forward roll over one shoulder
- you will now be in a fave up rear mount
- perform sliding elbow escape
We can perform this forward roll whether the opponent has grips (underhooks etc) or even if they have hands on the floor over head
