MTS 93 "Reverse Alcatraz" is now LIVE!
Hello brothers and sisters I hope all is beautiful :-)
Mastering The System is the online instructional series of the unorthodox nogi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu style, "10th Planet Jiu Jitsu" filmed on location at 10p HeadQuarters in downtown Los Angeles. A few weeks ago I was rolling with a student of mine, and when I mounted him he kept throwing in an unorthodox butterfly hook that felt very strange, something I never felt before, I was a little confused on how to address it because I never felt it before. "What the hell is he doing?" I said to myself in a frustrated fashion. "Wtf?!?" I continued. "Is this a mini stomp i'm dealing with?" "Wtf?". But it couldn't be; A mini stomp is executed with the outside butterfly hook; and he's using his inside hook, plus I'm mother f'ing mounting him!! This can't be a mini stomp! But what the hell is he doing?!? Whatever it is I'm gonna get on this asap and start using it because its throwin a huge monkey wrench into my mount attacks, and I love dismantling my opponent's game when they mount me. But then I thought about it for a second and realized I was just experiencing a major case of brain flatulence; He was actually just reverse alcatrazzing me. He was using my favorite mount escape against me. The reason it felt so foreign to me was because very few of my students have mastered it to the point that it's in their DNA, and ready to fire from their fortress of defensive tricks. "Reverse Alcatraz" was born during my Metamoris training camp, a camp that included a daily dose of 60 minute shark tanks. Jean Jacques would line up 5 to 8 killers and they would all wait in line to jump in on me at 5 minute intervals, all starting on my back, in side control or in the mount. I got crushed hard, especially early in the camp. Within 15 minutes of this hour of death I would be completely spent, gasping for air, and on the verge of vomitization. The reverse Alcatraz became my go2 in rapid fashion when being mounted because it required the least amount of energy as my way to escape. If you know the "regular" Alcatraz well you will quickly figure out why I call it reverse Alcatraz. It really is just a first cousin of the original and works best in combination with it. No move works 100% of the time, especially escapes, but when you toggle back and forth between these 2 mount escapes you might find that you can rely on them consistently, specifically when you don't have the energy for the traditional hip escape mount defenses, which are also super vital but they do require a certain amount of gas to execute properly that you might not have at the moment. In this episode of MTS, I break down "reverse Alcatraz" to the bone and show you drills that will put this into your bloodstream immediately so that your ass can be saved the next time you're stuck with some dude mounting you. Enjoy! -Eddie
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