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It's gotten to the point where I don't mind being mounted anymore. The reason being is that I hit the Hail Mary escape at least 99% of the time on everyone including my instructor. I rely on this all the time and it works. I just wonder if I should really worry about much else in the way of mount escapes? Has anyone experience being shut down on this escape? All feedback welcome
show a video of this mount escape. Can't find it on YouTube
It's on MTS episode 88.
also here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCTsS7s6tBw
Everything has a counter, eventually someone's going to shut it down. Gotta have at least a second option to get out.
Corkscrew foot lock and a toe hold are easy counters to the hailmary mount escape.
It's always good to have other options, nothing will work 100% of the time. I've found it can be difficult to pull off on larger and stronger (skilled) opponents.
Yeah I'm pretty good at the Hail Mary escape but guys in my gym are learning to keep their weight as low as possible to stop it. Sometimes I'll still get my legs in front of their stomach but you've Gotta have an alternative. Personally I quite like Alcatrazz or reverse Alcatrazz
As Eddie said in the Mastering the Rubber Guard DVD, "nothing in Jiu-Jitsu works 100% of the time" (something like that). So, it's indeed recommendable to have 2-3 options to escape from each position. That been said, I also like using the hail mary mount escapes and generally, I would let my opponent go from side control to the mount, just so I can escape with hail mary. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, but some times the opponent is so good in stalling on the side control that, if I am not being successful in escaping from the side control and I am running out of time, I will "invite" the opponent to mount, so I can escape right away. Again, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, but I do it sometimes too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mojoplata
It's a decent surprise escape. My fav escape is probably the deep half escape. I also like scooping with the foot but deep half seems to have the higher percentage.
I don't suppose you could direct me towards the corkscrew foot lock, please?Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Herzog
When I was a bluebelt I used to tell people that I let people pass my guard because I was super confident in my defense. I would go to tournaments and let dudes pass and start playing from there. About two years ago I was competing in the finals of a tournament and I got arm barred by this dude in like 45 seconds. I couldn't understand how I got arm barred because my defense was really good. But I didn't feel his arm Bar set up coming and I was not familiar with his attacks. I tell you this because I would not fall into the same trap that I fell in where I felt comfortable letting dudes take dominant positions on me. It's one thing to feel comfortable in bad positions when your opponent passes your guard and takes mount on you. But letting dudes take mount is a recipe for disaster when you go against better dudes. I know a few dudes who have insane mount games that I couldn't imagine just letting them take that position.