A Mount Escape that Works Against Larger Opponents 

I'm a beginner and tried this in practice. It worked beautifully. Now I have two mount escapes. I just came back to give props and thanks.

I am going to go out on a limb here and swallow all male ego and say that Emily Kwok is one of the BEST jiujitsu teachers around. amazing detail

Hey Stephan and Emily, I'm a less-than-a-month-old white belt and I stumbled upon your videos and seen this mount escape but never had the chance to use it until now. Today I rolled with another 2 white belts who were months ahead of me and physically larger than me (I'm a puny 5'4 63kg). Aim was to start mounted, person on top would try for a submission, guy on bottom would defend the submission or escape full mount then reset. I didn't have enough knowledge/experience to pull off any submissions properly, but with this one mount escape (which I've never practiced), I managed to escape their mounts repeatedly or keep them busy enough to avoid getting submitted at all. A tiny accomplishment, but I just wanna thank you guys for sharing your knowledge with us. Truly appreciate it. Btw, I bought and downloaded a couple of your apps and I find them extremely valuable, especially as a newbie to the ground game. Keep it up and keep em coming!

Emily - Jess here. I'm pretty sure we met at an MMA expo in New York a few years back. At any rate... I taught at the UFC Gym for awhile. At the time Alexander Crispim was the head instructor there, and I learned a really cool technique from him that incorporates the same foot scoop for taking the back . Unfortunately, we live a bazillion miles away from one another, but if our paths should ever happen to wind up crossing again, remind me and I'll show it to you. Excellent vid by the way. ;-) Jessi Taran

Thank you so so much Emily and Stephan. I was always stumped when the big guys mounted me. And being the smallest in my gym I was completely screwed. Now this little tip has changed the game completely. Today I refused to submit and kept going into half guard at least. With a little more practice I will go for the sweep and reverse positions. Thank you so, so much. I had Stephans book from the Kindle store and will always look for more stuff on small people bettering bigger people.

As a guy who weighs 145 I always had the hardest time escaping mount with most of the guys in my gym who were all 170-200 at least. A friend showed me this technique and I absolutely love it. It's an incredibly deceptive way to achieve half guard if you are keeping their arms tied up with yours. You can work independently of your arms and use this technique. Great for nogi.

I weigh 220 lbs and I still need this lesson.

I was practicing this on my livingroom floor at midnight lol will try it this week at club

So going training in about an hour, going to be using this when it's time to roll. I'm forever defending submissions and trying to escape.

Every time I watch this video, I see a little more detail. Awesome video.

all these men making sexist comments here are really disgusting :(

Defs helpful. Approx 90% of the peeps at the place i train are at least 2 weight classes above me.

It´s a nice move ... very good !! .. and with all respect ..she is pretty :) .. the people should respect her , do not leave those agresive comments

Once i saw the title of this video, i felt that sudden urge of relief......

Keep in mind that this technique is designed to be used when rolling against guys who actually know jiu-jitsu. I actually use this in class, but if you are in a street fight and punches are involved, this shouldn't be your first line of defense. This technique could be used in a street fight if used as part of a combo, but the truth of the matter is that against most people who haven't trained jiu-jitsu, you probably wouldn't even need such a complex technique. Bridging, hand trapping, and basic elbow escapes should be enough.

Everyone in my gym is smart enough to make sure their toes touch each other and their legs are tight so that you can't scoop their foot like that or get your legs flat on the mat. So this method won't work when they do that.

I've used this escape many times, and the only time it has failed me is when I rolled to far onto my side. Excellent instruction and illustration. Thank you!

This is one of the techniques found in Karate's Tekki Shodan.

Brilliant

A great, clear, detailed instructional by a respected black belt.... but this is RU-vid and of course, the racist/sexist comments must be said for every f'in video... sigh...

Wow. The presence of sexist comments on this video is disturbing. I really hope none of you people that give the sexist comments are actual bjj practitioners. That would just be a disgrace.

I’m a yellow black belt and I’m 12 years old! Definitely gonna try this tonight! What rank are you?

Tell that to the next 250 lbs guy that rampages you see what happens

The fuck is wrong with the comments? I think this video is awesome. :D

Make sure you teach the basics to your loved ones too!

Love that girl, she’s no joke.

I can honestly say this is my favorite escape from mount. Especially if you start, instead of just pushing on the knee after you've snagged the foot, swivel your hips under his leg, you can still escape to half guard without necessarily using your hands, or at least not for long.

dude got rekt.

can a female handle 100kg male sitting on her stomach putting all weihgt on her stomach, not on his knees?

Really good stuff (Y)

@MrScoob1988 yeah ive been in a full mount before, but the reality is to protect the areas they can severly damage like your teeth, your nose, and points that can even kill you, thanks to me not lowering my guard im still alive and still pretty. Im guessing this technique is mainly for grappling in some sort of tournament or supervised fight. Im sure its useful outside the ring but in some circumstances this move might be hard if the guy has already knocked you out cause you dropped your defence

im not criticising this technique but alot of times these are being used is when someone is punching the crap out of your head, I know alot of MMA fighting is based on calm collected thinking, but taking away you defence for your head to move yourself doesnt seem right to me, since if you get knocked out through force of the other guy being bigger, it could be a threat. Is there a way to do this without lowering your defence?

@HiredGunGames Believe me i can take alot of punches but when your brain is knocked out thats it, you cant control when it happens or if it happens or not. So what im asking is is there a way to do this while still protecting yourself from being knocked out outside the ring and possibly continously getting punched while being knocked out.

That's what I need - high percentage moves - not fancy...Thanks

THANK YOU...OMG JUST THANK YOU! The STRUGGLE IS SO REAL!!! I'm like 5'11" 200 lbs and I'm not small but the guys I train with are like 6'3" to 6'5" and 250-280 lbs and I'm always in trouble :( This will help a lot

This escape works great but a few people I train with attack my neck when my arms are framing their hips. I know it's coming now so I'm cognizant of it, it's just one more thing to think about.

Wow this looks slick will have to try this

her voice is amazing

Great, I love it, my Instructor teaches it the exact same way. Thanks for sharing, I love Stephan's methods, he makes it more effective and I appreciate what you are doing.

Why would you dislike this video?

Wearing rings whilst drilling? ehhhhhh

She is a total beast

How to escape a mount. Dont fight a BJJ fighter.

Thanks for the nice video

I needed this two weeks ago when I couldn't get a 215lb-er off me. Gonna train at home with the wife and kiddos, and hopefully establish some muscle memory. Thank Emily & Stephan.

That's so good! I wish I knew this before my 17 stone partner sat on my ribs lastnight. It's all love though.

Stephan! This is my highest percentage mount escape, but I have a problem. Once my training partner catches on, sometimes he can just get super heavy on the knee which I have trapped, making it impossible to slide to half guard. What's a good adjustment to make?

nice video, this girl is awesome. Congratulations

I really like the tune that plays at the beginning and the end haha

Very well explained. Thank you SO MUCH

I was crushed today by a bigger opponent. I will try to utilize this in the future, thanks!

I to turn to much and get caught in modified mount lol. The leg trap ill be eploying and working not to turn to much. Thanks for your videos.

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I'd like to point out that I've pulled this technique on bigger, stronger opponents that are trying to strike me. In order to demonstrate something to someone learning it and especially at the beginner level, you have to have a static partner. Otherwise, the student will not pay attention to the technique. You're right. Not all techniques are MMA friendly. This is one. Now you just look like a noob.

Sucks while you're getting punched in the face though

how do i counter when someones just in the mount and choking me with their hands (thumbs) if fuckin terrifying

Thank you soo much

This is my go to mount escape.

i'm french and i only speak/understand scholar english ... i can perfectly understand what she say and i don't any special accent exept american one

How do you tuck your elbow and defend from strikes at the same time?

This has been my favorite mount escape for years. It works on everyone, no matter how big they are. It works on black belts, if you use it in combination with other escapes which prevents them from attacking your neck while your arms are at their hips.

No, this is taught in a lot of schools as a base mount escape and used often in sport competition as well as MMA.

Fuck yeah

i've used this escape so many times! simple and works almost every time! even against the largest opponents! great technique indeed!

I only see this move working against unskilled white belts. Anyone with any skill would not even let her roll to her side, plus she would not be able to move his leg..........I say this from my experience, I'm a 1 strip BB weighing about 132 pounds and been training for 2.5 years..........Better off waiting for the big guy on top to try something then exploit the holes they leave, then a move like this may come into play. But if they are just laying static on you, your stuck...........

Stephan, I turned to this video because I saw Brock Lester demolish Min-Soo Kim when he had a mount. The problem in applying Emily's move appears to be that while you are seated low, over the pelvis section of Emily, Brock was sitting up high, so there was no way for Min-Soo Kim to push out Brock's leg & cross over it and free his knee out. What would you did in a case where an opponent is the size of Lester and sitting up high?

Whenever I start teaching a new class, the first thing I do is have everyone do sprints. After I while, I ask if anyone can tell me why we did them. The answers vary quite a bit, but I have only had one student ever get it right. I explain that unless you are forced to defend someone else, then running is almost always your best bet. Avoiding physical conflict is the only sure way of staying healthy...and out of trouble with the police. This escape is pure gold... then run! LOL!

Also can u really be surrounded by more than 3 guys, and can they really attack u al together without getting in eachothers way? Especially if moving around? Don't wait till ur surrounded i'd say. I once had a short brawl with three guys, they basically took turns, and we moved quite some distance from where it started. It was quite overwhelming, not sure I would have won had it continued, but luckily they stopped. Though I keep wondering if I could have possibly beaten them. Maybe not.

Not necessarily a style, and takedown defense is not necessairily making contact and sprawling, striking can help too for countering a takedown, and avoiding (aikido style), just moving in a smart way, dancing around keeping ur distance and fact is u are more mobile on ur feet than on the ground. if u don't let them surround u, how will they shoot together? , how are they going to sh Ofc if one of the assailants happens to have a better takedown/shoot than your avoidance/takedowndefence, u lose.

Clinches in boxing and kickboxing are due to the clincher needing to either steady themselves from a knock or to rest due to fatigue. It's not an attempt by them to do a takedown. If a striker get's attacked by 3 men it's not a given that they're going to clinch, even so, if they do, BJJ isn't going to help. Whilst you're grappling with one the others are stuffing metal rods up your rear end. BJJ is certainly useful it's just that it's effectiveness is more suited to fair, even fights.

That there is no style that is good against multiple opponents is not really true, there's something like takedown defense, so if a good fighter has this and knows how to move in a way that they can't surround him, I think he might stand a good chance against lesser skilled opponents. I myself have practiced aikido for about 10 years but now switched to muay thai and mma/bjj. Bjj/mma is more useful against one person, but aikido is more useful against multilple, lesser skilled opponents imo.

claiming that the Gracie challenge wasn't open to them and was a lie. If the Gracies tried to suppress the evidence, they couldn't because any fighter who won the fight legally owned the video tape and could distribute it (that was part of the wager). We don't see many tapes of the Gracies losing a challenge, although it did happen on a few occasions. That means that the only likely option is C.

No, I am saying that qualified people would have accepted the Gracie challenge because, if bjj is actually crap, then the challenge would have been easy money for qualified fighters. That leads us to conclude that A. qualified guys were blocked from entering, B. all evidence of the Gracies continually losing to qualified guys was suppressed, or C. the Gracies were able to beat the qualified guys as well. If they were blocked from entering, there would be hundreds of testimonials from people

You said that bjj could not work in a real world fight. Since you refuse to count anything with even the most basic rules as fighting, and you consider the Gracie challenge a giant conspiracy theory, I have provided you with another example of its effectiveness. You seem to be refusing to accept common evidence for whether or not a style is effective. Tell me, what evidence could I feasibly provide that would convince you that grappling is useful?

Like I explained, either the Gracies fought some qualified guys (obviously not all the guys were qualified, but some had to be) or there would be hundreds of witnesses to prove it was fake. And OBVIOUSLY nobody uses it as a stand alone system! It isn't supposed to be one! Just like only using boxing would SUCK as soon as I ran into a guy that could kick or wrestle well! Furthermore, the vast majority of military forces implement at least some grappling training. In the U.S., it is a mandatory

actual fighters would have taken on the Gracie challenge, which would be stupid of them, because if bjj is actually crap, it would have been easy money. If the Gracies snaked their way out of fighting anyone legitimate, there would be a whole Mess of martial artists complaining that the Gracies wouldn't let them participate in a Gracie challenge! And obviously it didn't list the people's names! The people generally lost, and probably wouldn't want their names on tape. And that is assuming they

Search "no holds barred gracie" on RU-vid and it is the second video to come up. Biting, eye gouges, and crotch shots were all legal. So, you think that all of the Gracie challenge matches were fake? You are going to believe that it was an entire conspiracy of people pretending to be martial arts masters and then losing on purpose? If they were real people, but not actual fighters, don't you think SOMEBODY who fought a match would have stepped forward to call B.S.? And that is assuming that no

Great counter btw Stephan. Read my post again sir. I never said we train in Krav Maga. I said we train in everything. Since you are so experienced, why don't you tell us lowly bjj practitioners what the best martial art is? One discipline against one discipline. I know there are a lot of Gracie fans here who would agree that JJ, BJJ is the toughest stand alone martial art of them all. One discipline vs one discipline that is.

well what would you suggest as good mma? Surly ground work such as bjj is relative in a fight. Would it not be good to know how to get position and capitalise on that position. By the way most "Real" fights end up on the ground so its most likely a good idea to know how to fight on the ground. But of course bjj is some what an intelligent style of fighting which a non-educated delinquent like your self would find difficult to grasp. :)

haha dude, karate and those other 'self defence' techniques dont work in a real fight either...! UFC and other competitions that let you use practically any technique you like have proved that in a real fight where you just have to do what works things like karate go right out the window. Ironically however, (and something thats devastating to the point youre attempting to make) BJJ is used by almost everyone thats serious in mixed martial arts because it ACTUALLY WORKS in real fights.

You do not know martial arts. BJJ would help you out in a fight like any other art. But because someone is a world class competitor in BJJ it does not mean that they are good at street fighting. where there are NO RULES. what she is showing is helpful but BJJ is not the best at this stuff, do you know kung fu has been doing this stuff for 2000 years? BJJ lets see if these guys can take on 2 attacker at once. Yea go to the floor. BJJ looks very basic. Is it true that BJJ = Bascally Just Judo?

or she may have wasted countless years and money learning an art that didn't save her life. but at least she tried and committed to something that gave her life meaning, and hopefully she learns one thing from martial arts, that she is human and vulnerable and she respects physical violence. maybe she avoids trouble all together by being humbled by her art. but what does one learn by sitting at home criticizing others? she is a true warrior.

for all the naysayer internet critics/warrior tough guys who say this stuff does not work against a real life opponent who is resisting. like anything else in life there is no guarantee and yes she may take one punch and lights out, then she gets killed by head stomps. however, there is also a small chance that all her hours and years of training might, just might pay off and she lives to talk about how one technique out of hundreds she drilled through blood, sweat and tears saved her life.

The point of the video is to TEACH YOU the technique. It will do you no good if they simply break out into a full on practice roll or the guy on top begins to strongly resist. You would learn nothing because wouldn't recognize the techniques or know learn the Techniques at full speed. That is like watching a video of Mike Tyson showing you how to throw an effective Jab or hit a heavy bag properly and you saying "I guess your opponent is just gonna let you hit him".

bahahaha dude it seems llike you have never practice MMA before, you're right about one thing tho, this technique needs a noobish or too slow foe to be applied properly, other than that your comment is pure BS, i don't know you but i'm pretty sure by the way you think of this disciplines that your battle style could be striker (power punches only), you'd get a beaten in the ground.

Ok, so whats the point is of this defence ? I don't get it. Ok, it don't has to be for a street fighting, so for what ? If I good understood, jui jitsu is some kind of tournament fight right and If any1 will sit on you and will hold you there for a few second he's winning ? But still don't know whats the point is to train something if id doesn't have a chance to use it in a real fight.

Take the right leg and drop it over the attackers left ankle. If he's on the ball of his foot (it isn't flat) you can damage the ankle immediately. Use that point of leverage to roll hard to the right shoulder and push him over. Simple. The technique doesn't work as well if the person is well up towards your neck, but if you can get the back on your thigh on his ankle, you've got him! Go for it!

@HiredGunGames This is a good BJJ escape, but for MMA it does compromise your head. MMA, self defense, and BJJ are all different games that share some moves and concepts, but not all. You need to train specifically for your goal. Personally, I use a different strategy than this in MMA. I find that it is important to close your opponent's striking range down if you are mounted. Then you can try reversing or escaping the position.

@1iguerra The other works directly off the traditional one. Sometimes the person on top will get wise or will just through sheer chance stick their foot far enough out to the point where you cannot hook it with your own (again, talking about the traditional mount escape). In this case, you can trouble shoot easily into a half guard situation because there should be a gap with their leg. From there you essentially have their leg trapped to follow through with the traditional mount escape.

@lochn For self defense purposes, the majority of people you run into in a street situation do NOT train in any ground fighting techniques, or take the time to learn them (even to this day). So the traditional Gracie hip-bump escape is probably the best for that as it allows you to immediately wrap up either their neck, arms, or chest and pull them to you to prevent hits. Iv'e experimented around with it, and there is another if that one fails which works well off of it.

I don't think it had to be said, but of course that you will have some sort of set up to get to this move. You could make this work against alot of people if you had a good set up but that would be for another lesson. I think it is a great technique and used a variation of it myself many times against different opponents.

No, sadly you didn't. You said it twice. I hate to say it, but go reread it dude. Once in the beginning and once in the end of your comment. I'm sorry you're so angry though, I was just joking. It's really not that big a deal. We're here to talk about Jiu Jitsu, not typos. I really am sorry I offended you.

OK, stupid question (more so about the DVDs). The "How to Defeat the Bigger Stronger Opponent" 5 DVD set, will these techniques be as effective if you are a big person working with a weaker smaller opponent? I always try do work on not using size or strength to do techniques (if you need to be stronger than your opponent to do them, they aren't effective)...

I'm thinking the guy you replied to was talking about regular street fights. The average bloke on the street isn't going to know BJJ nor is his primary aim to take you down - my guess is they'd try and KO you. With that in mind a striker would do better than a grappler. If you were against 3 BJJ practitioners you're obviously going to lose.

even gave the Gracies their name to begin with, and I am sure some didn't, because it wouldn't have been necessary. Basically, if the Gracies faked the whole thing, we would have hundreds, if not thousands, of witnesses to prove that they did. Saying that all of those fights are faked is a ridiculous claim!

Even Krav Maga emphasizes getting the crap out of there as quickly as possible. There are tricks to surviving, but no martial art is going to be used in a successful escape besides one or two strikes and basic principles. Not even top Krav practitioners think that they could take multiple opponents their size. They get the crap out of there!

Stop trolling please!!!!! Why are u even ranting on a Bjj channel if u don't believe in it. Go some where else please!! Or even better go to a local bjj place and train for a day for free as most places offers trials before u join. See how well you do then come back a tell use about your experience. Anybody and sit in front of a computer and talk shit. Now Go Try IT.

yeah i get your point, some MMA wrestlers are amazing grapplers, im just saying that sometimes you don't have enough time or breath to do this escape properly, i'd rather bump my hips and throw the guy aside than do all this steps with high chances of lost my breath completely in the process, but then again, is all up to you and your JJ style.

I end up on my back alot as a beginner and i have never had an opponet yet that sits up on me like that in mount.. they are usually laying on top of me... :( with all their weight. i do try to frame the hip out and push them back as i try to bridge and hip escape.... this is good to see thanks for posting it :)

I don't really think that this was intended to be used in an MMA cage, lol. Your comment suggest that they are saying this technique is for a real fight or MMA cadge, but it's just a BJJ technique simple as that. This isn't the first time I have seen this. Also, every technique is harder when attempting during live rolling!