Hey. Ando again from Happy Life Martial Arts. I was just sitting with my friend
Stephan Kesting, we were talking about politics, and I thought--hey, while we're here,
would you mind talking a little bit about mount defense? I know this is
probably one of the most frightening positions you might find
yourself in in a real life fight. So, here you are. Everything went wrong in your
whole day. You ended up with me on top of you. That's really a bad day. What are the
stupid things that people do from here that they just should stop? >> Okay, number one is
trying to punch their way out of here. Because I think my arms are a little bit
longer than yours. >>True. >> But if I'm trying to punch you from here, you've got that
extra space between your chin and your shoulder. >>Yeah.
>> So, you have got more reach. Obviously, you've got way more power because you
can drop gravity right and you can rotate your body, whereas I can just do
tricep punching. So, forget that. >> Don't punch your way out. >> Don't punch
your way out. Sometimes you see people going like, I can elbow strike to the thigh, or
I can elbow strike to the groin, or we talked about this in another video,
tickle your way out, is not going to work. >> It kind of works now. >> At the very best, you might get their
attention for a second, but I'm always worried if I try and hit you in the groin, I've just
escalated the fight. Maybe you're sitting, you're potshotting me, and
now you realize that I'm trying to eye gouge, well, you're in a way better position to eye gouge.
So, you want to be careful with that, of escalating the fight, because if
if we're not already a 10 out of 10-- >>You don't consider this 10 out of10?
Is that what you just said? You don't consider this 10 out of 10?
No, because you're not eye gouging yet or maybe you're just hitting me once in a
while and it's a dominance fight. >> Just because it's a commercial break at the
Super Bowl and I'm just kind of messing around. Alright. >> This is pretty bad, but it could get worse.
So, number one, don't try and punch your way out. Number two, don't
try to elbow the thigh, or elbow the groin. Number three, the
standard, the classic Brazilian Jiu Jitsu strategy, is to take the guy down,
pass the guard, get mount and hit me in the face
until I do this, at which point, you choke me... >> Right.
>> ...unconscious. So, much as I don't want to, I have to stay facing. Those are
the stupid things. Now, I've got to do a couple of things. I've got to deal with the
striking aspect-- we're talking about this being used in a striking context.
>> Street fight, yeah. >> Okay. There are a couple of different ways to limit how
much damage you can do. You're still going to do damage. You're in a terrible
position. The odds of me coming out of it completely unscathed are low, but I
want to come out of it, you know, somewhat unscathed as opposed to completely
demolished. So, if your hands are on the ground, you can't punch me. So, I
want to get your hands to the ground. There's a couple different ways to do
that. Number one, I could kind of block, kind of protect my face, this isn't great.
I can block your thighs with my elbows. This is not a strike, this is a block. And
then if I bridge, sometimes I create this lever effect where your hands go to the
ground. We'll deal with how to get out of there, what to do from there in a second.
I just wanted to talk about different ways to get the hand to the ground.
So, this is one. >> If I don't do that, I'm gonna faceplant and chip my teeth or
something ridiculous. >> Another way is if I can grab. I don't want to grab high here.
If you know what you're doing, you're going to break my arm. You're gonna do an armbar.
And not everybody's gonna do that, but this also doesn't solve a problem. Even
if you don't know how to grapple, you're still gonna be able to punch.
Exactly. So, if I can grab something and keep this elbow in, lock this elbow, block
this thigh with the elbow, and bridge, I can also get your hands to the ground.
Another way is I sit up, bear hug, and then drive down. If you're particularly
big, much stronger than me, really resisting back, I put up, I bury my face
in your belly, put my feet on the ground, and then almost jump
backwards. >> Can we see that again?That's pretty cool. >> We're here.
If I get crazy lucky, you hit your head on the pavement, you knock yourself out.
Problem solved. >> Almost. >> One in a hundred, one in a thousand. Don't count on it.
The point is to get the hands to the ground. So, we're here. Hands are on the
ground one of those three ways. What I typically teach, because it's the
simplest, is I want to trap an arm. I'm gonna reach up like a Thai clinch,
and I'm gonna pull this arm onto my chest. There are tons of different ways
to tie this arm up. If you don't like this, you might be able to do an overhook.
You might be able to grab the wrist, pull it across. Grab something here, grab
something here. I want to tie up this arm. I find that this is the fastest. Got this
from Erik Paulson. Here. Thai clinch. Step over the foot. I've got this side of the
body closed off. I'm gonna bridge as high as I can, put my head to the side, and
then roll. So, I don't do this. If I just show this by myself.
I don't do this. And I don't stay bridged. I'm going to bridge, stay high, look to the
side, and then turn over here while keeping my hips high.
So, what that might look like if you're mounted on me, we'll just show it from the
the other side, I'm gonna go this way. You're up here. You're punching. You're
punching. I block. Hands to the ground. Trap. Step over the foot and come here.
Now, especially in the modern context, I'm not necessarily out of the woods. If you
know what you're doing, I can get armbarred, I can get choked. There's lots of
guys out there who know jiu-jitsu, so you're not 100% out of the woods, but
there's no one-size-fits-all solution. A pretty good solution is pin the wrists on
the chest. If you can't do that, say you rip your hands-free, pin the biceps on
the ground. Not 100% solution, but we're dealing with 90% solutions here.
Stand up, back out, and keep going. So, that's my standard thing. Number one,
don't do anything stupid. I like how you asked that initially. >> That's how I think--stupid.
>> Well, what are the stupid things to avoid? And you're already off to a
better start. Number two, how do I stop the striking? How do I get the hands to
the ground? How do I get their posture forward? And that bridge and roll, that
trap, bridge and roll. There are other ways to escape from mount. If you train judo,
if you train ju-jitsu, you train no-gi, train submission grappling, catch wrestling,
hopefully, you have a bunch of answers for that--structural answers--and they're all good.
But that's the one that I would start with for most people.
And if I could just ask one more thing, sometimes
people aren't being struck, they feel that they're just being pinned. It's a
dominating position, a sexual-assault set up, something like that.
Does the bump pretty much answer the same problem in that? >> It can, but not
necessarily. If there's a huge size discrepancy, there's a problem. It's hard
to beat somebody who's 100 pounds heavier than you. There is hope, but I mean,
on the one hand, well, let's go down. I will grant you that you are much heavier than me.
You've really been hitting the weights. >> I had a milkshake. >> You had a milkshake.
If my hands are here on my chest, they're pinned to my chest, it's not so bad. What
I really need to watch out for is you suddenly letting go and punching. Exactly.
That kind of thing or trying to control both my wrists and punching. That's the
problem. So, when that happens--there. I bridge. So, the bridge solves it in
that case. Also, because my hands are together, I can grip fight. I can go here, get--
I control your wrist. Now, we've got two on one and, of course, I'm gonna try and
go out, if I can, out the magic space between the thumb and the finger tips.
So, I'm not gonna try-- sorry, hold on tight-- I'm not gonna pull out this way, I'm
gonna try and go out that way. If you're holding me some other crazy way-- exactly,
say you're here, well, now the magic space is there.
Two on one. Push, pull. Grab, bridge. Now, I go do that escape series. >>Yes, sir.
Harder is when both hands are to the ground, because usually this
is a big, big, big size discrepancy. The advantage here is you're not usually
hitting me. You're gonna probably be head-butting me, if you're gonna be--
which isn't as common. So, this is a terrible position. This is a big size
discrepancy. I want to see I can get a two-on-one situation, so I'm not going to--
let go, please-- I'm not gonna pec deck this in. If I was strong enough to
pec deck this in, you're not strong enough to hold me down. >> No. This isn't a
problem. >> So, if you're going there, I can try bridging out. I'm gonna
try bridging really hard and recognize I'd better get the escape down right
away. Because if Ido this, and you let go, and then we come back here, and I don't go
for the escape, and you push my hands down a second time, now you're gonna be
shifting your weight slightly to not get knocked over a second time.
Let's assume the bridge didn't work. Let's assume that I can't pec deck,
which I won't be able to, my preference here would be to bring my hands up to
try and get some kind of two-on-one situation. I can probably go up here.
The danger is here, of course, you're going to slide your knees up to go into a high mount
if you know what you're doing.
So, there is no great solution. I try and bring my hands together so I can get a
two-on-one-- hold it tight-- so I can get a two-on-one and rip free, trying
to go out through this space again. If you are sitting super high in the
armpits there, this is a terrible position again-- lots of terrible
positions today-- I'm gonna try and walk on my shoulders.
Two on one. Control the arm somehow. I'm using a different grip. Step over and
bridge and now what position were we just in? >> Perfect. >> Let's be friends. >> I'll link to the other video.
>> Also... those are some solutions anyway. >> Absolutely.
I hope you watch this video a second time at least to pick up some of the
details there. Some of that gripping might seem a little sophisticated at first,
but it's actually pretty normal once you get over the panic of it and just say,
"Oh, yeah! Why just settle for this? I can do this, I can do that, I can do this.
You have more power than you think, like in most areas of your life.
Thank you very much Stephan. As always, this is a goldmine of information. Please,
if you haven't subscribed to this man's channels over at Grapplearts.com, that's
his website, Self-Defense Tutorials, that's also his website, his YouTube
channels, there's just so much good information over there. I'm a fan. I hope
you will be, too. Until next time, keep fighting for a happy life.