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cathyr19355) wrote2010-03-01 10:12 pm
cathyr19355) wrote2010-03-01 10:12 pm
The Dangerous, Useful S-Mount
Tonight, in Mixed Martial Arts class, we learned about a new, slightly more advanced basic position called the
"S-Mount".
It makes the two basic positions, front mount (essentially kneeling astride the opponent's torso, with your knees as high up on his body as you can manage) and side control (kneeling beside him, with one knee against his hip, your arm around his neck, and your weight on his torso) look ridiculously inadequate.
The way we learned to get to an S-Mount is from front mount. The basic technique we're taught is to escape a front mount is to hook your foot around one of your opponent's feet, stabilize yourself by putting the other leg flat, and then "bump" with your hips to try to roll him off.
To emerge into a successful s-mount, when the opponent is hooking your foot, you should move your opposite knee as high up on his body as you can. Then, you turn the foot he has hooked over until the toes point straight up. This tends to unhook his foot, and you can then draw that foot inward till it rests against his hip, with that foot flat on the floor. Meanwhile, you move the opposite knee up his body until it's behind his shoulder.
And your hands? The one on the "knee" side lands on the mat in front of his face, while the other hooks under his arm. From there, you can do at least two different armlocks and a choke hold.
I wish I had seen this move sooner--it would have made a lot of other techniques they'd tried to teach me make a bit more sense.
"S-Mount".
It makes the two basic positions, front mount (essentially kneeling astride the opponent's torso, with your knees as high up on his body as you can manage) and side control (kneeling beside him, with one knee against his hip, your arm around his neck, and your weight on his torso) look ridiculously inadequate.
The way we learned to get to an S-Mount is from front mount. The basic technique we're taught is to escape a front mount is to hook your foot around one of your opponent's feet, stabilize yourself by putting the other leg flat, and then "bump" with your hips to try to roll him off.
To emerge into a successful s-mount, when the opponent is hooking your foot, you should move your opposite knee as high up on his body as you can. Then, you turn the foot he has hooked over until the toes point straight up. This tends to unhook his foot, and you can then draw that foot inward till it rests against his hip, with that foot flat on the floor. Meanwhile, you move the opposite knee up his body until it's behind his shoulder.
And your hands? The one on the "knee" side lands on the mat in front of his face, while the other hooks under his arm. From there, you can do at least two different armlocks and a choke hold.
I wish I had seen this move sooner--it would have made a lot of other techniques they'd tried to teach me make a bit more sense.