Mount

Funnel of Control:

• Defender's legs on the ground

• Defender on their side

• Weight Distribution

• Arm control

• Escapes:

  • How you can escape without protecting your face Henry Akins
  • Trap, bump, and roll
    • Get the direction right, it's not to the side, it's the corner. Look with your head to 1:00 or 11:00.
    • Shift your hip and turn your knees to improve trapping the leg
    • You can still do this even if they are sitting up high in mount, just trap their arm against their hip
  • Shirmp towards their light weight side if their weight distribution is far to one side
    • to ashi
  • Knee Elbow escape Bmac
    • Caution: keep arm tucked on the inside
    • Frame the opposite hip, frame on the inside
    • We want Attacker's weight up because that makes their leg light
    • The finishing movement is in pinching your knee and elbow together
  • Kipping / "Pants off" to butterfly guard
    • for when they have their ankles crossed
    • you can do it one knee at a time
  • High Guard - feed to armpits
  • Alcatraz
    • Related to Elbow escape The body movement of shrimping is the entire basis of mounted elbow escapes.

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