Survival Concepts

Chewy diagnoses the five habits that make mount escapes fail: bad frames, no bridge, escaping too late, wrong timing. As much about the priorities under mount as about any single technique.

Chewy on the sequence that has to happen before any mount escape works: free a leg so you can bridge, get the hands together for inside frames, then start the escape.

A beginner's guide to staying safe under mount before trying to escape: where the hands go, how to breathe and what the top player wants you to do.

Short clip on surviving under mount: elbows in, hands protecting the neck and not giving the top player a straight arm to work with.

SBG's three fundamentals for surviving the bottom of mount: posture, frames and not letting them climb. Concept-first rather than a single escape.