Side Choke Difficulties

[Andrew Sarasin]

I have been getting reversaled by someone recently from mount when I go for a head and arm or arm pit control.

Does anyone have any tips on how not to get rolled on my back in guard?

Even with pointing my knee outwards on the side he roll me is not enough.
Ankles crossed seems like a bad idea since its easier to roll me on my back.

Any ideas?

[Tom Carbone]

I have been getting sweeped by someone recently from mount when I go for or am at head and arm or arm pit control.

Does anyone have any tips on how not to get sweeped?

Even with pointing my knee ouwards on the side he weeps me is not enough.
Ankles crossed seems like a bad idea since its easier to to sweep.

Any ideas?

Hard to say without seeing what it is your doing wrong. I would assume your knees are just too low on his body if he's able to sweep you. Are you stabilizing position at the chopping block before you attempt head & arm choke?

[Joachim Hoff]

Andrew, sure you are being swept, not bridged off?
If people try to bridge me and I don't want to let go of head and arm, I sometimes extend the leg hooks and collapse their base, then hurry back up high again, that works for me.

[Brandon Mccaghren]

When he starts to take you over, let the choke go and keep the top position. Get better at holding position and then start to evaluate the individual technique.

[Isaac Atley]

I assume youre in skydive mount? be mobile, if youre in skydive and think you ight get swept, be ready to throw a leg out to base better. and you can use your elbows and your head sometimes as well as points on the ground to help with ur base. work on the clinch and putting your weight on them.

also be ready to move into side control if you can keep mount. much better than getting put back in guard.

id even suggest working on other attacks from mount. gangster lean, s mount etc. if nothing else this will mean they arent sure what you will do and they will have more to worry about when your mounting them.

[marc luu]

andrew, i know exactly what you're talking about. lets say i'm in skydive, and i am trying to get his left arm up. i'm using my right arm to walk my fingers up to get head and armpit control. my LEFT arm is around his head/neck. the opponent will bridge hard to his right, getting the reversal (i don't think that's considered a sweep, just reversal.) is that what you're talking about?

if so, i have been having similar troubles, my only way of countering it is to anticipate that bridge and to let get of the head and base out with my left arm, but then that means i have to bail on the arm triangle attempts because he'll do the same thing over and over. so lately i've been doing two on one and trying to work kimuras and arm bars from mount.

but yeah, i am curious to know if anyone has any solutions to that problem. am i not applying enough shoulder pressure on his face/head? should my left hand already be grabbing his armpit so that i give him no space to even use his head to bridge?

[David Rosado]

Post with your leg. Seems to do the trick for me. I've learned that you have 5 posts. 2 legs, 2 arms, one head. You can only get swept 4 ways. Left, right, over forward, or backward. When you go for head and arm, you're taking away your arm as a post for that side so you need to make another post available to stabilize that side. If I go for head and arm with my right arm behind the head, I keep my right leg ready to post if they buck. And if they buck, it should make getting your head deep for the katagatame even easier.

[John Mejia]

When he starts to take you over, let the choke go and keep the top position. Get better at holding position and then start to evaluate the individual technique.

This,
the longer you can ride a position, the longer the person on bottoms going to feel helpless. The mounted arm triangle is a move that in my opinion you grind out and crush your opponents will on the way to submitting him. Rarely do i "snatch" up arm triangles, but I have to set them up from a long ways out, isolating the arm, grinding my way into position, smashing with good pressure, and by that time the squeeze comes super easy, eddies arm triangle is one of the nastiest I've ever felt, followed closely by Brandon's, Johnny Ho's and Geo is surprisingly deceptive because he's a 145'r and he squeezes like a heavyweight, he also posts on his head every time you try and buck him off, or shrimp out or attempt to throw his balance off. (goodLuckwiththat lol)

[Joachim Hoff]

This,
the longer you can ride a position, the longer the person on bottoms going to feel helpless. The mounted arm triangle is a move that in my opinion you grind out and crush your opponents will on the way to submitting him. Rarely do i "snatch" up arm triangles, but I have to set them up from a long ways out, isolating the arm, grinding my way into position, smashing with good pressure, and by that time the squeeze comes super easy, eddies arm triangle is one of the nastiest I've ever felt, followed closely by Brandon's, Johnny Ho's and Geo is surprisingly deceptive because he's a 145'r and he squeezes like a heavyweight, he also posts on his head every time you try and buck him off, or shrimp out or attempt to throw his balance off. (goodLuckwiththat lol)

”The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

[Greg W]

watch Rener use those hooks from mount. BJJ 101