Getting out of s mount

[machomang]

When I get mounted, I usually frame against one of my opponent's legs, turn my hips and scoop one of his legs to regain half guard. The way this gets countered is they'll raise that leg and move into s mount. From there, I go back to being flat on my back and then it becomes a back and forth thing where neither person is really advancing.

One s mount escape that I occasionally do is put both arms underneath the raised leg and bridge towards him to create a scramble,other than that I tend to get stuck, what to do?

 

[DushanS94]

That's not really s mount. That's a technical mount. S Mount is way tighter, and the leg is tucked under your armpit. S Mount usually means that you are about to get finished.

As for the technical mount, while it is a very nice way to counter the traditional half guard escape, it leaves the guy on top open to single leg x or leglocks.

Grab the ankle of the leg he posted, shrimp hard all the way to the opposite side and use your other arm to frame on his knee, while trying to get your knee out. As soon as it is out, put the other foot on his hip and boom, single leg x. You can proceed to sweep him or attack heel hooks, which is something I would do in this particular situation. If the heel hook doesn't work because you can't establish effective control, just do a technical stand up and you've swept him.

This is my favorite way to escape that position and I've done it and swept far better grapplers than myself.

 

[machomang]

That's not really s mount. That's a technical mount. S Mount is way tighter, and the leg is tucked under your armpit. S Mount usually means that you are about to get finished.

As for the technical mount, while it is a very nice way to counter the traditional half guard escape, it leaves the guy on top open to single leg x or leglocks.

Grab the ankle of the leg he posted, shrimp hard all the way to the opposite side and use your other arm to frame on his knee, while trying to get your knee out. As soon as it is out, put the other foot on his hip and boom, single leg x. You can proceed to sweep him or attack heel hooks, which is something I would do in this particular situation. If the heel hook doesn't work because you can't establish effective control, just do a technical stand up and you've swept him.

This is my favorite way to escape that position and I've done it and swept far better grapplers than myself.

i stand corrected, thank you, i'll have to try that. do you overhook that posted leg?

 

[DushanS94]

i stand corrected, thank you, i'll have to try that. do you overhook that posted leg?

As soon as possible, I forgot to add that. You grab the ankle for initial control and as a way to pull his leg closer to you, since his ankle is the end of the lever. As soon as you establish the knee that keeps the distance between you and the foot to check his hip, you need to overhook as soon as possible. It is by fat the most effective way to increase your leg control. And it's also already setting up the ankle lock, which is devestating if done correctly.

What you want to do with the overhook is pretend that you're doing an ankle lock at all times and that you want to be as tight as possible, but you only have one arm. So keep your thumb up and try to do something between raising your hand towards your own chin and grabbing your own peck on the far side. This creates a lot of tighness and he will be unable to pull his foot out, even if he manages to temporarily bypass the control you have with your legs. The idea is to keep so that, that even if he completely removed your legs from the equation, it would still be a pain in the ass to get out.

As for the escape itself, the only requirement is having good hips in order to quickly shrimp out completely to the other side. If you get that down, you'll actually start bating them to go to technical mount since it's so easy to pull this off it's not even funny.