Mount Control
To hold mount: be in the middle with your knees pinched and hips slightly disconnected. Sit on your partner's hips with full posture and you'll get bumped off quickly.
1. Objectives & Mechanics
Find the middle — hips disconnected, knees pinched. When your partner bridges, place your weight in your hips: you should feel like a rock to them and go nowhere.
2. Execution & Awareness — common reactions
Beginners push your chest to posture you up: maintain weight distribution and posture and they cannot move you — or use the extended arms for an armbar. Beginners and intermediates also tuck their arms, aware that raised arms feed armbars and chokes.
3. How to practice
Feel right vs wrong at the basic level: sit on the hips and let them bridge you (wrong); find the middle and get bridged (you barely move); find the middle and weight the hips as they bridge (you're a rock).
Drills
- Wrong-on-purpose: sit high, feel the bump
- Find the middle: get bridged, barely move
- Middle + hip weight: be the rock
Training checklist
- You can hold mount against someone at your level
- You can defend against the common escapes
- Bonus: you can hit a submission from mount at high success rate
Frequently asked questions
Why do I keep getting bumped off mount?
You're sitting on their hips or posturing fully upright. Find the middle: knees pinched, hips slightly disconnected.
Where does my weight go when they bridge?
Into your hips — done right you feel like a rock and barely move.
What do I do when they push my chest?
Keep weight and posture — they can't move you — or take the armbar their extended arms are offering.
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