Blue belt · Escape · Core
Mount defense: protect your neck and arms
How to survive mount: protect your arms and neck and keep them low while you set up your escape. Use it every time you're mounted, before trying the upa or elbow-knee.
Step by step
- Elbows tight to your ribs, hands high by your collarbones. Never push their chest with straight arms.
- Feet flat and close to your butt, so you can bridge any time.
- Keep them low: if they climb toward high mount, push their knees down toward your hips and bridge to slide them back.
- Chin down. If they push one of your arms across your face, pull it back to your ribs right away.
- Pick your escape: when they post a hand or ride high and light, upa. When they sit heavy and low, elbow-knee.
Details that make it work
- Defend first, escape second. Your escapes only work if your arms and neck are safe.
- Their posts tell you which escape to use.
Common mistakes
- Pushing their chest with straight arms (armbar).
- Lying flat with your legs straight, which takes away your bridge.
Drill it
Partner in mount hunts arms and the arm triangle at 50%, you only defend: 3 × 1 min. Then 3 × 1 min with escapes.
If it fails, or what comes next
- Trap & roll (upa) Escape · Mounted
- Elbow-knee escape (shrimp) Escape · Mounted
- Armbar defense: closed guard and mount Defense · In closed guard
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