Get better at Escaping Mount
Your guide for better Jiu-Jitsu
Being able to escape bad positions should be a priority in your Jiu-Jitsu. This guide will cover the best ways to escape the mount.
What we cover:
Making them a part of your hips
What to do with your hands
Trapping their arms
Bridge and Roll
Building a frame with your legs
How to practise mount escapes
Training checklist
How 2800 students feel about escaping mount
Mechanics of escaping
When you're stuck under the bottom of mount your job is to survive first then to escape. Your main objective is to make your partner a part of your hips. That way every time you move they move. This will be the building blocks for your escapes.
Your hands have an important job in your mount escapes. You should not extend your arms or try to make grips on their collars. This will do nothing but invite submissions. Instead your elbows should be focused on creating a barricade so your partner’s hips remain on yours. Your arms should be focused on trapping theirs.
Once you have the mechanics set up properly you can do the ‘bridge and roll’ or the ‘upa’.
Secret Tip
For your bridge and roll your goal is to get out of your own. Instead of rolling to the side, turn your head and try to bridge them over the centerline of your body. This will make it difficult for them to post and find base. From here you can start to turn to come up.
Watch Video | Escaping Mount Objectives and Mechanics
2. Get them on your hips
The biggest struggle you will encounter is making them apart of your hips. To do this you need to understand ‘connection’. In this case you will not be able to move your partner by bench pressing them. However, you can move yourself. By keep your elbows connected to your partner and walking your shoulders back, you will be able to make your partner apart of your hips.
Watch Video | Escaping Mount Execution and Awareness
3. Common Reactions
The common reactions from your partner include trying to get to high mount or shooting the hooks to stabilise. The good news is that these are quite easy to deal with.
High Mount
If your partner is trying to get to the high mount you can use this as an opportunity to collect their arm. By leaving your elbow connected to the mat you can trap your partner's arms as they start to climb up the mount. This makes for an easy bridge and roll.
Hooks with the Legs
If your partner tries to use their legs to establish hooks you need to remember that they are close to your guard. This is your time to do an elbow escape. You can build a frame and push the legs back into your guard.
Watch Video | Escaping Mount Invisible Details
4. Building a frame with the legs
The best way to escape the mount is doing a hipescape. But it’s not the hipescape that you are probably thinking of. The hipescape is a frame that can add and bear weight. It can be used to off balance your partner so you can have space to escape.
Watch Video | How to practice escaping mount
5. How to practise
You need to find a partner that will feed you the reactions you are looking for. Not someone who is trying to win the ADCC Open Weight Division.
Practise doing a proper hipescape. This can be done by yourself.
Practise making your partner a part of your hips. Keep your elbows connected to them.
Practise trapping the arm correctly. One hand on the wrist and one on the back of the tricep.
Practise the bridge and roll correctly.
Practise doing the hipescape with your partner on top of mount.
Watch Video | How to practice escaping mount
Escaping Mount Training Checklist
So you have watched all the videos and now have a better understanding of what you need to do to escape mount. Now it’s time to tick off your practice and progress.
Actions
Practise the hipescape. This means building a frame legs and getting your hips and shoulder off the ground.
Let your partner start on your chest. Practise moving them onto your hips with the correct technique.
Practise trapping the hold correctly. One hand on the wrist and on their tricep. They should not be able to recover their arm back.
Practise the bridge and roll. Make sure your hips stay pointed to the sky as long as possible. See if your partner can post easily.
Practice the elbow escape from low mount.
Progress Check In
You can escape mount against someone equal to you.
You can escape mount against a higher belt.
You feel confident escaping mount.
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How Other Students Feel About Escaping Mount
The data from our BJJ Journey Score shows that on average most students feel okay escaping mount against someone their ability. But your goal should be confident against higher belts.
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