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s-mount
We’ve touched on s-mount a little bit before. See S-Mount Warm Up Drill and Mounted Armbar. We’ll start with the s-mount warmup shown in the first post, and work on some attacks.
Here’s some quick and simple advice for advancing your mount position. What if your opponent has tight, defensive arm position?
If you don’t have a collar to grab, can’t fit your hand in to grab a collar, can’t separate an arm for an armbar attack, and can’t get your knees up into the armpits, start by forcing their arm into an Americana position.
Here’s a longer explanation of protecting the mount from Roger Gracie:
I strongly prefer Roger’s insistence on keeping weight on his opponent, but as an entry to s-mount, this is a nice start. Note how Jean Jacques isn’t opening any space for his opponent to sneak out the back:
His arms are too low to force over his head and you can’t slide your knees up? Trap the arm down and step over:
This is probably the most like what I do from this position. I love starting with a cross choke grip and using that to turn to the side:
Side Control
When we returned to side control as a position, we started with transitions to mount:
I love me some Twister side, so this is the mount movement that I use the most:
We also talked about the more traditional knee-across transition:
I’m not a big user of Kimuras or Americanas, so we acknowledged but haven’t spent a lot of time on these yet. We can come back to them.
Boom brought out the Brabo choke a couple months back. I love it. We will also work on the cross and baseball bat chokes that exist in the same neighborhood.
In case you trust it more with an accent:
Escapes!
This is where we started. At the bottom, getting smashed. Danaher’s video shows the most straightforward approach to making space to pry your way out of bottom side control. In addition to this movement, always look out for free legs. Top players can get greedy or impatient and make sloppy transitions to mount or toward other positions. Be prepared to catch their leg in your half guard and start initiating offense from the bottom.
I’ve always had a harder time escaping side control compared to mount. Mount might offer better submission options than side control, but side control is easier to hold. It’s not necessarily wise in a scored contest, but I often let people move to mount so that I can escape from there. From mount, half guard is only an elbow escape away.
If you’ve had enough philosophy and detail and just want to see the move, this is another simple depiction of it. Here, he demonstrates escaping all the way into full closed guard if you’re into that sort of thing:
The other standard mount escape is a roll. The Umpa escape can be alternated with elbow escapes if the top guy is being tough to shake. Don’t forget that the Umpa will land you in your opponent’s guard. Cross chokes and Ezekiel chokes initiated in mount can still be finished in guard, so you can’t relax your defenses yet because you hit the roll.