20160920 Class with Renan
It has been a while since I posted. The last 10 months has not seen me train very often but I’ve been getting back into it again recently.
On Tuesday this week Renan schooled us on escaping the mount using a hip escape and also by capturing a leg to go to half guard.
Firstly, use your elbows to stop your partner from climbing higher on your body/chest. Keep them braced against your partner’s knees. Take your right hand and put it on your opponent’s left hip, or put your forearm across the front of their waist with your elbow near their left hip. Open your opponents feet, put your right foot sole-down inside your partner’s left foot and walk it out to your right. Take your left leg and lay it on its left side inside your partner’s right foot. At this point you will be a little on your left side, you may have to buck your hips a little to get into this position.
From the above position push off with your right hand and foot, and hip escape back and to your right. Pull your left leg through and get your left knee and shin inside your partner’s left thigh. Then get your left leg/shin inside their other thigh and sit up to butterfly guard, if you can. If you can’t sit up, you’ll need to make space by lifting your partner with your feet and pushing them back. Use the momentum to sit up and keep your head low.
Capture Leg to Half Guard
From the above set up position, use your left leg on the floor to push your partner’s right foot out to the left. Step your right foot clearly across and over that foot and plant it flat on the mat. Slide your foot back across the mat and pull their right foot and leg over your left leg. Once you can plant your right foot on the mat inside your left leg, you can now focus on establishing half guard. Climb your left leg higher on your opponent’s right leg, then move your hips to the right gradually. Once your left thigh is on top of their knee and thigh you should be able to move your hips to face right, wrap your right leg behind their thigh and knee, and lock with tight with your left leg over your right foot. You could continue on from here to establish Butterfly Guard, but that’s for another post.
