Marcos Santos: Hi! My name is Marcos Santos, I am a Black Belt in Rigan Machado, official Machado representative in East Coast. Now I have here today, my good friend Raz, and Brandon. They’ll go ahead and demonstrate some techniques, they have been trained under me for a long time, and they had some preference in training and fight techniques. I want to leave up to them today to show great, good techniques for you guys.
Speaker: Well, hey guys! How is it going? I had a one time of chance to train with Roger Machado. And he told me a very good technique, I would like to demonstrate for you now. Let’s say, I have got at this point where I am mounted. I am in a good comfortable mount, right? I have very long legs so sometimes it's hard for me while I am mounted to attack and keep control. So what he recommended for me was with towards the high guard. So my high guard were lagging in. I start first, he’s locking my knees, let's say, right?. And I stop, put my base down below, and to control his head, I am going to start to walk my knees up underneath his arms. So I’ll get to a nice high position.
At this point, high mount, right?. I said, high guard; I meant high mount. So now from here, I am going to slap his arms to the side, when he gives me the chance. He’s strong or whatever, maybe I can't push his arm out of the way, I can't force it, he’s too tough. So when I get an opportunity, I am going to hit the arm and drop my hip down, and I’ll put my weight on him. I keep the pressure, all of my weight on his arm, he can't fight back, typically unless he’s extremely strong. At that point if you are fighting Superman, go get a gun. But if you are not, you are fighting a normal human, you are going to use this technique. Slap him on to the side, drop my weight down, control the head. Now I start to walk my knee up next to his head.
What I am doing here, you can't really see. But what's going on under here is his shoulder and his head are now both elevated off the ground. What this is going to do? It is going to prohibit him from having a base to bridge and to push me off. This is extremely useful. If he’s has five points and he can push off of, let's say, in this case seven; he’s got his head, his shoulders, his hips and his feet. If I take two away, now it's very difficult for him to bridge it back to play. Okay? So I have got my weight down, control, knee is high. At this point now, he’s in a lot of trouble. But I am going to make it worse, and how do I do that? If I come around to his side, you can see, I have got the control, let's say, his arm is out of the way, and he trying to stop me. I am at this point, I can just grab the sleeves, pull it up, and I am going to switch to what's called S Mount.
This position is called S Mount because of the shape that my hips and my legs make, where it looks almost like an inverted S. And the greatest case what he did here was, his arm was already up. So I didn’t even need to pull his arm to S Mount. I can just go here but sometimes if a guy knows what I am trying to do, he’s going to lock through this arm, I’ll have to grab. So coming back one more time.
Controlling his hands up to the side here. I have got his head, I have got my knee high, I will just grab his knee and pull it up. Now it is not. This is a great position. It puts a lot of pressure on you, to my partner I apologize that it's too hard. When I am putting my weight down, it's squeezing his chest, putting all of this pressure on to him. It's very uncomfortable and some guys will refer to this, some guys like Chawon has the word of suck, and that gives you description of just how awful this can be. So from here, I have many opportunities to attack. First and obvious one is this arm. If his arm is available, I can cover it, control, keep everything tight and switch to arm-bar. This is one position.
Let's say, he’s a little slick, he’s savvy. He knows that I want his arm so he’s going to defend it, he puts it inside. Okay, I switch, I control this arm now, behind the bicep, or behind the triceps, I here have now a good base. I
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