#mount attacks

Mount Offensive System I: Cross Choke, Armbar and Triangle

Do you want to improve your finish rate on top of mount? If so, this is the right place to be.

We’re going to do a deep dive on an effective and basic offensive system for mount. It cycles through the cross choke, armbar and triangle in a flow that makes sense. And I’m going to break it down for you beyond what you can learn just by watching the video.

Watch the Techniques in Action

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Monday 08/31/15 and Wednesday 09/02/15

Mount retention and mount attacks. 

If they push on your knees, lift and move that knee up to higher mount

if they have arms up by collar, push arm down for Americana

In Tuesday's gi class, coach Pat taught us arm bar from mount.  We spend the first part of class practicing the set up by kind of putting your arms like you're doing CPR, then jumping to one side. This simulates the trapping of the arm from mount position and quickly putting your leg over their head, sitting, and trapping the arm. We then worked that move with an opponent for the entire class only finishing the arm bar. It was good to spend a long time drilling the move as it is something I am very weak at.

Thursday, I got to the gym about 45 min before class and coach Avery was there. We rolled for about 30 min and by the end I was pretty much ready to go home. He, obviously, dominated the whole time, but I felt good with my submission defense.

The class focused on the scissor sweep from guard. This is a sweep I rarely use as I seem to get passed when attempting it against better opponents. Avery taught it by having us grab deep like a cross choke setup, then getting our other grip on the back of the opponent's elbow. We then shrimp out and put our shin across the belt line of the opponent. Using our grips, we sit up and pull the opponent down, loading him on our shin, then scissor kicking our legs and pushing the opponent's gi like a school bus wheel, ending up in mount.

We rolled for about 20 min. I was dead tired after having done the earlier session with Avery. Hit the sit up sweep once or twice and hit the scissor sweep once.

After class Avery handed out stripes to a couple of people...one of which was me!

Today I went to back to back classes. 

The first class was taught by Mike, a purple belt. I've never taken his classes before. We learned two triangle setups:

The first was pretty standard: Wrist control, open guard, shove the one hand to the opponent's stomach, hips up, turn and bring your thigh to their head, grab, shin, hook, angle, tap. :)

The second was setup when the opponent is grabbing your gi collar. You then grab the far side hand, weave your other hand under their arm and figure four using the hand you have wrist control on. Then you pull your guard up forcing the opponent forward, and jerk the arm out and under your head. With the opponent's arm trapped under your head, over hook that trapped arm and grab your gi. Then shrimp out, wrist control the other hand and finish your triangle as normal.

We drilled these two moves the entire class.

The second class was the intermediate gi class taught by black belt Chaun SIms. I've only taken his class once, but he is a great teacher.

We started off by learning the proper technique for pulling guard. This is having a collar grip with one hand, elbow grip with the other, stepping in to the opponent, bringing your knee to their shoulder and jumping up over their hips.

We then learned some knee on belly escapes.

First was simple. The arm on the same side of the opponent simply hooks the knee and you butt scoot out.

Second, you underhook the ankle of the knee on belly leg, and straight arm the opponent's belt and sit up.

Third, you butt scoot to line up with the opponent, and knee the back (similar to mount escape), and slide out the back door creating a scramble where you can grab the leg.

Class was taught by Avery. We basically did the same two mount attacks as he taught on Monday.

The cross choke is getting to be pretty good for me and I feel pretty comfortable with it.

The baseball bat choke is getting better, but still needs work to get smooth. Avery taught one good pointer with the baseball bat choke where, as you're finishing it, roll your writs apart to get the choke nice and deep. That made a big difference.

Today I took the beginner Gi class taught by Avery.

We focused on two chokes from mount. 

The first was the cross choke. I knew this one pretty well. Got a good pointer about using my elbow/forearm to lift up the back of the opponent's head before trying to get the thumb in to the gi collar.

The second was a baseball choke from mount. Similar to the cross choke, you get your hand in deep on the opponent's collar, but unlike the cross choke, you don't cross. You get your four fingers deep, get the thumb deep on the other side, jump to knee on belly, then move to north south while posting your head by their hip.