Blue belt · Control · Core
Mount: stay & climb
How to stay in mount when they bridge and push: low base, grapevines, and climbing high. If you can't hold mount, you can't attack from it.
Step by step
- Low mount: knees tight to their hips, chest low, hands posted wide.
- Grapevine their legs (hook under them) when they bridge.
- When they push you, climb: walk your knees up toward their armpits (high mount).
- Keep your weight on them, not on your knees.
- Answer every bridge by widening your base.
Details that make it work
- High mount stops elbow-knee escapes because they can't get their knees up.
- Sit on them, don't kneel over them.
Common mistakes
- Sitting upright with your hands off the mat.
- Letting them trap an arm and bridge.
Drill it
Mount retention: partner tries upa and elbow-knee. 3 × 1 min.
If it fails, or what comes next
- Armbar from mount Submission · Mount
- Arm triangle (head & arm) Submission · Mount
- Mount to back take Back take · Mount
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