805BJJ Class 28: Mount, escape from mount

Mark’s Saturday class was essentially a review of mount and how to escape it back to guard. No submissions, just this. Mount isn’t just sitting on someone – it’s squeezing the knees together and making an A-frame above the opponent. Guard recovery when you’re mounted involves three hip bumps to get the knees to slide and collapse the A-frame before shrimping, wrapping a leg in a loose half guard, then turning the other way to secure the underhook, possibly coming to the elbow and getting back to the knees.

Then we rolled for a half hour before everybody got tired and Mark got a little disappointed in our conditioning.

I started rolling with Cosmo. He’s figured out to slam me back down when I try to sit-up sweep him, but I was able to overbalance him from half guard. That’ll be a theme for the day.

Next I rolled with Sean. He’s really slick, and we had a pretty flowy roll. I thought he was going easy on me until he tried to land that mounted triangle on me (I slipped out the back as soon as he moved to set it up, so I was proud of that) and then I thought maybe not. But neither of us were going nuts trying to submit the other. I managed to stay calm and focus on techniques, and everything was over too soon.

After that was Jen. She basically sat back and worked open guard. I was able to pass a couple times but she always recovered. I probably need to be heavier on her after I pass, but that somehow doesn’t seem very nice. Plus, Mark was coaching her through the whole thing. So I essentially worked to maintain good base as she tried to separate my arm from my body.

After that was TJ. He’s becoming a beast. Solid guard passing, heavy side control. I was able to reverse him from kesa-gatame once, which garnered applause from Mark. He ended up sweeping me and arm barring me once. Good stuff.

Next was an optional roll, which devolved into TJ showing me his triangle setup. Mark was a little dissatisfied by our lack of conditioning, but hey that was my 2nd hour of martial arts training for the day. I think I did great!

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