RIDING HIGH
Alright, the next mount basically we're going to talk about, is riding high and trapping his shoulders. We've talked about in the Americanas and in the Armbar, how we want to set up the submission, by getting our knees underneath his elbows and underneath the shoulders.
There's couple of ways we can do that. One, we can keep our base really low, and our elbows above his shoulders. That limits how he can move away from this. Also, I could bug the neck as we talked about. Whenever I am bugging the neck, I can bug the neck, and as he is moving, I just drive my legs up a little bit higher. And allows us to move up higher on his chest.
I eventually will be sitting directly on his sternum, with both of knees up under his shoulders, his arms are going to go look like this over his head. That's when I have a high mount. If you call riding high, sitting high, high mount, whatever you want to call it.
So we're here and James wants to get out from underneath the mount. So he is going to try that Knee to Elbow Escape. When he does, I am going to take this knee, push it up behind his shoulder. I like to hold the head and pull it either side to bug the neck, but I drive that mount. When he goes the other way, I go to the other side, until literally, I am sitting in a high mount. I have my mount on a high mount. I can set up my Armbars, my submissions, my Americanas. From here it's a really controlling position, if you think now is bad, wait till you get a high mount on your partner which is really a dominating position, okay?
Alright, look again. We're here, I like to get it low base. I use my chest and my arms to bug my opponent's neck, I like to turn his head. When I am doing that, I am driving my knees up until I am here. So shoulders are up, his arm is up around his head. I have a lot of control from here.
Other way to get that, he's trying to escape. I am just moving with him, and literally going up higher and higher, until I laid my high mount. From my high mount, we're going to work on some of the submissions that you have from here. It's a very dominating position. If you can get a high mount and you can keep the high mount, you're in a good position.
One of the ways to really keep the high mount is run low. I am going to pinch my knees behind his shoulders hard. So he can't get his arms back down the ground. If I don't have him pinched, he is just going to get his arms back and he is going to maneuver all.
Now I've lost my entire position. When I get him up under there, I am riding and high, I would have pinched him in hard. Another way that I like to reinforce is to put my feet on his hips on both sides. We are going to show this from the side view next. I like to get here, keep my base really low, and now even if he tries the bridge roll or if he tries to bridge up, if he tries to bridge, literally all he's going to do, is just lift my leg, but since my weight is on his chest, he is not going to be able to throw me off of, alright?
From a side view, we're here. I've established a very high mount. I put my feet on his hips. This generally control his hips, what it does, is it let's me know what his hips are doing, alright? So I am riding low, I've got my base out wide, he goes to throw me off of his hips. All I am going to do, is drive it up. All I am going to do is just keep moving with him, and keep my knees pinched really tight. So there's are lots of submissions we're going to go into, sets up another position called the S-mount, that we're going to go right into work and work on some submissions from there. That's your Cowboy variation, that's riding high, high mount whatever you want to call it. That's your next base for the mount.
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