Regaining Back-Mount and Submissions from Back-Mount

11/28 - Downtown
I thought it was going to be a small class, but more and more folks strolled in and we ended up with about 8 or so. Our warm-up was two 5min rounds of flow-rolling. I had terrible flow to start with...would think of techniques that I wanted to execute but couldn't do them, or did them very poorly. Felt like a total n00b. The second one went a little better. I kept trying for the flower sweep, but wasn't having much success with it. Did the scissor sweep over and over again instead of pulling something else out. Meh.

Stretched, and then rolled for a solid half hour. Sara (twice?), James, Antone, Wayne(?), guy who's name I don't remember. Kept nailing Sara in the head, once pretty hard with my own head. I was apologizing pretty much the entire roll. Had good rolls with her, did a good job of staying in advantageous positions. Good roll with Wayne, tried very hard to stay out of bad positions and did a fairly good job of that. Guys bait me into the triangle so they can push my leg down and pass...I need to learn what I'm doing wrong there. Antone had me in knots, as per usual. Got me in a slick sub...don't remember what it was, but good. When I was rolling with James, he gave me a tip on passing the guard for points. I was passing his guard and ended up with my butt on the mat instead of pressure on him. You get points for passing the guard, so finish it. I think that's what he was trying to say...

Set-up:
You have opponent in back-mount, with right arm over, left arm under and left hand over the top of your right hand. Your head is tight to theirs, almost ear-to-ear.

1. Regaining Back-Mount
Opponent attempts to escape back-mount by turning to their left side, holding your left leg down and clearing their legs, ending up perpendicular to you. Maintain your grip with your arms, and rotate your lower body to the left and get flat on your stomach. You want to end up with your body in line with theirs, so that by pushing forward you roll them up. Chop your right leg all the way across their body, fall to your right side and get your left hook back in. The chop across the body isn't a violent motion, but rather a cue to get your right foot all the way to their left hip instead of just to the inside of their right thigh.

If, as they are escaping, they try to roll up on you (i.e. their back is on your stomach and they are putting weight on you as they move into the perpendicular position), you can hip out to get to the in-line, stomach down position. However, it would be even better if you kick off their right leg with your right leg as they are clearing their hips/legs. This always you to initiate the movement to line up with them before they get their weight on you.

2. Ezekiel from Back-Mount
Put the four fingers from your left hand into your right sleeve at the bottom of the wrist. Kick your feet out to the right (left foot should end up on their right hip, right foot on the floor?), push them down and bring your right hand around their head so that you are making a fist in the crook of the left side of their neck. This one is going to take a lot more practice to understand.

3. Head-and-Arm from Back-Mount
The set-up is that you are going for the ezekiel and they flatten out. Bring your left arm around the back of their head as deep as you can. Deep, deep deep. Flatten out to your stomach, get your head LOW and CLOSE to their head. Work that arm around, taking your time to get it deep. Once it's set, gable grip your left hand over your right hand and squeeze your arms. If needed, stay very flat and walk your legs to the right.

Some basics from this...  to escape the ezekiel (in this case), flatten out. To escape the head-and-arm, move to your side. James showed us a slick modification if you have a head-and-arm and the opponent attempts to block by putting their elbow in the air and their hand on their ear (like they're talking into a phone). Keep your left hand on the mat, use your right hand to move their right arm across your head and then back for a kimura. Bomb. Probably didn't explain it well, but it looked evil.