Next edition that we got work on is the Side Mount and first we are just kind of go over a good side mount base and some of the different ways that you control your opponent. So we have our opponent in a side mount, one of the things that I like to do is take my sternum and put it directly on his sternum, chest to chest and you should be able to hear your partner's breathing and if it feels like he is straining to breathe you are doing it right.
So, you only put your chest flat down, there is a lot of different theories on how you should keep your arms and your legs. Some people keep all their weight down on their opponent and keep their legs straight out, some people will bring up one leg up toward his head and will take this hand and block his hips, some people bring both legs up. That's all in personal preference really and I like to change my base whenever we are actually competing. Anyway so, those are things that you need to keep in mind, this far side arm, you need one hand under it, if both hands are over it there is a escape that he can use to take your back and you'll lose your position. Also with this elbow he is going to be trying to create space, so I need to get this elbow out of my way.
One way I can do that is to reach and grab the back of his forearm and then I just switch my hips. Now when I switch my hips, this is actually a different position, this has another name, same concept here, but this is called kesa gatame or scarf hold, but it's the same theory there is lot of submissions from here, a lot of ways to advance your position but, whatever we feel our opponent getting this elbow in down our way, all I want to do is hold the back of his arm, pull it up and just walk under it okay and again always keeping this hand under, sometimes you don't have another options, sometime you have to go over, but you don't want to stay here long, if you end up in this position, you immediately want to switch to his back and start reestablishing your side mount, okay. So, we're going to show that from a different angle now, so that now you can see the position of the legs and everything.
Again, sternum to sternum, my legs are out on my toes to on my wait is on him and underneath this arm and I am hooking the hand here, I like to hook behind the head or I bug my opponents neck and I like to hold on to his shoulder if you are wearing a Gi and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Kimonos -- it's called the Gi, if not, you just drive your form across, hold it back in the shoulder, okay. While we are moving while we are maneuvering around, I can bring this far side knee up to block his hips or I can take this hand and put on the ground from the other side of his hips.
Again, if this elbow comes in, I grab the elbow lift it, shoot my hips through, now the scarf hold. One last angle. At my sternum, flat on his sternum, chest to chest, out up on my toes on my way to down on him. This hand is blocking his hips. I will always want to be blocking his hips, because he is going to be trying to move in toward me and put me in his guard, so I block his hips with my hand or I can bring this knee up, I can block him here, if this arm comes in, I am just grab it switching my hips going to scarf hold or if you prefer you can just pull the arm up, bring both knees up and isolate the far side on, that's just your basic control and based out of the side mount position, something we call side mount or side control.
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