Turtle Escapes Flashcards
What are the primary concerns we must address when defending from the turtle position?
1- strangles
2- our opponent getting hooks in
3- we need to turn into opponent and go from chest to back to chest to chest
What is the makikomi roll and where/when do we apply it when escaping turtle position?
When we are in a turtle position and our opponent has a single hand tight waist grip and an inside hip position, we can use the makikomi method of escape.
- we trap our opponents tight waist hand with a straight hand palm up fist tight into our body, keeping our other hand in tight not to give away strangle opportunities
- we shift our head and hips out with a pivot action so we are no longer parallel with our opp, we are at a 45 degree angle (swisher both feet out like wind shield wiper)
- head comes to the floor
- extend your outside/bottom leg backwards as you start rolling to your side (you’re rolling in the direction of where his trapped hand would base)
- roll completely over and you will land in a quasi-reverse sit out position with his hand still trapped
- with your free hand grip his far left leg, on the outside of his knee on the gi pants so he can’t immediately turn into you
- bring your far elbow up into his arm pit and bring your hips off the ground higher than his hips
- release his trapped arm and use your free hand to bring his two knees together and step over with your leg
- rake his legs in with your leg and take mount
What do we do, if while attempting to perform a makikomi roll to escape turtle, our opponent rips his hand out after we trap it?
We perform a shoulder roll.
The makikomi roll focuses on rolling away from our opponent to reverse him
The shoulder roll focuses on rolling back into the opponent to put him back in guard
When is the best time to use a shoulder roll method to escape the turtle position?
The best time to use the shoulder roll position is when our opponent has a tight waist grip or doesn’t have a grip at all, for instance if you stop him getting tight waist grip by peeling his grip etc
What is the critical sign that you are doing an effective shoulder roll, to escape turtle, and put your opponent back in guard?
When our head is symmetrically between our knees. If you try to put an opponent back in guard before your head is between your knees, you will have failed, and be in a bad position
While beginning a shoulder roll escape, what do we have to keep in mind, regarding our knees at the start of the roll?
After we have our head and one shoulder on the mat, BOTH KNEES have to come off the mat. You should be in a tripod formation with only your head/shoulder and your toes on the mat.
Then you walk your feet over head until your head is between your knees symmetrically,and your are now resting on your scapula, then you roll your hips into your opponent to put him back in guard.
What do we have to bear in mind, regarding our opponent’s hips, before we perform a shoulder roll escape from turtle position?
We cannot perform a shoulder roll escape if our opponent’s hips are covering our hips in turtle position.
We have to keep our outside hand (hand furthest from opp) by our neck to monitor/anticipate his strangle hand.
We then come down to a shoulder (the one closest to opp)
Then we swisher our feet out and away from the opp to bring our hips outside of his hips.
Then we pop up to the tripod position (shoulder and toes on the floor, in an inverted positivity extended legs). Keep your extended legs strong, anticipate him trying to flatten you out
Point your hips towards his armpit
Frame on his arm and push your hips into the back of his armpit to roll back down to guard
When and how do we perform a shoulder roll escape from turtle position?
From turtle position, when your opponent has a TIGHT WAIST grip and is covering your hips with his
- keep your car side hand close to your neck to monitor/anticipate any strangle attempts
- bring your hand and near side shoulder to the mat
- swisher your feet/legs out and away from the opponent to bring your hips out from underneath his
- extend your legs and come up into a tripod formation- with your head/shoulder still on the floor, and both knees off the floor with extended legs, pushing up from your toes, keeping your inside leg strong in case he attempts to flatten you out
- with your outside hand, thumb post inside the elbow of his tight-waist arm, and post/push his elbow out to expose his arm pit THE BATTLE HERE IS BETWEEN OUR HIPS AND HIS ARM, by posting on his elbow we are exposing his arm pit to our guard
- roll/push your hips down into his arm pit to put him back in guard
ONLY WHEN YOUR HIPS ARE UNDER HIS ARM PIT ARE YOU IN A POSITION TO REGAIN YOUR GUARD
What do we do when we encounter the battle between an opponent’s strong tight waist grip and our hips, when we are performing a shoulder roll escape?
After tripoding up and trying to roll back into the opponent to regain guard, if the opponent has a strong tight waist grip still, he will be applying a downward force with his elbow to try and flatten us back out. We need to
- thumb post with your outside hand, and frame/push outwards to expose his armpit
- then you need to push into the back of his arm pit to ‘thread’ your hips under to put him back in guard
- only when you get your hips under his armpit can you regain guard, otherwise your position will be compromised and your opponent can pass you
What ‘trick’ can we apply to make the shoulder roll escape from turtle, a lot easier?
The main battle of the shoulder roll escape, is between our hips and our opponent’s elbow.
He has a tight waist grip and we need to come up to a shoulder, then onto our scapula then get our hips under his armpit to put him back in guard.
A trick we can employ is using HAND CONTROL to ‘put our opponent’s hand in our BACK POCKET’.
- from turtle, always use your far side hand to monitor his strangle attempts, then use your far side hand to feed his strangle hand to your near side hand and grip it
- then use your far side hand to grip his tight waist hand at the knuckle line
- take his tight waist hand and ‘put it in your back pocket’
- now tripod up and walk your feet around so your head is between your knees
- his armpit is now very exposed because his tight waist arm is extended because of your grip on his tight waist hand, so he now longer has the tight waist grip which was blocking your hips from rolling under his arm pit
- roll your hips under his armpit
- regain guard
What are the steps to the inside leg escape from the turtle position, when your opponent has a SEAT BELT GRIP & IS COVERING OUR HIPS, denying down the makikomi roll and shoulder roll escapes ?
- monitor the strangle hand with your far side hand, by getting inside thumb position on his wrist (if your opp is on your right side, then you use your left hand to do this)
- put your inside elbow inside his knee
- ’take your ear around the corner’- put your head on the mat by his knee towards his outside knee,this swishers your legs outwards so your parallel to your opponent
- bring your outside knee forward SPLITTING YOUR LEGS and slouch down to that hip, the slouching element is key to bringing his knee to the mat in order to step over it
- with your inside leg, step over your opponents near side leg and hook it, sitting to your far hip on the ground, bring your far knee in front of his near side knee
- if you can’t access the leg to step over to trap it, grab his gi pants with your non-thumb posting hand and pull his knee to yours then step over and trap it
- perform a backwards roll taking your opponent over behind you
- you will now both be on your backs and he will still have the seat belt grip, but you have his leg trapped, preventing him taking rear mount as you make the roll
- you can’t stay here though, or he will use his free leg to strip your grip on his trapped leg
- you must quickly take your inside elbow and bring it to the floor between you and the opponent, this prevents strangles as the angle would be wrong
- you must now focus on turning in towards him
- he will also try and regain top position
- you must bring your far side knee to your chest, so he will be climbing directly onto your butterfly hook giving you inside position to extend him away and regain guard
How do we perform the inside leg escape from turtle, when the opponent has a tricep wedge position along with the seat belt grip?
- always monitor the strangle hand with your inside thumb position at his wrist
- keep your other free hand in close to your sternum so he can’t trap it with his posting leg
- turn into your opponent bringing your hand close to the mat in towards his legs
- slouch and sit to your hip, facing your opponent, this will make his hips rise, taking his glutes away from his ankles, exposing his leg
- bring your bottom knee toward his knee
- step over his now exposed leg with your other leg and hook it
- perform a back roll
- your opponent is now on his back with you in his seat belt grip, but you have his near side leg trapped
- turn into him quickly enough to bring your elbow to the floor between you and him
- bring your knee to your chest, anticipating him climbing to top position
- with your knee to your chest, get a butterfly hook inside his knee/leg
- regain inside position
- put him back in guard
