Escapes

Crevar's kipping mount escape that lands in irimi ashi, a New Wave route off the bottom.

Danaher's mount-escape lesson: the elbow-knee escape and upa sequenced so you are not bridging into a higher mount.

Xande Ribeiro shows a frame-based mount escape that works against heavier opponents, with Bernardo Faria asking the questions. Gi, but the mechanics carry over to no-gi.

Chewy runs through the five mount escapes he still uses at black belt, starting with the upa and the bridge-and-shrimp elbow escape. A good first video for anyone who keeps getting stuck under mount.

Chewy diagnoses the five habits that make mount escapes fail: bad frames, no bridge, escaping too late, wrong timing. As much about the priorities under mount as about any single technique.

A mount escape Chewjitsu likes against bigger people, built on frames rather than a power bridge.

A twenty-minute Knight Jiu-Jitsu guide covering the upa, elbow-knee escape, heel drag and how to combine them against low and high mount. Thorough for a first study of the position.

Stephan Kesting walks through the four mistakes that make the upa fail: not getting a hand to the floor, staying bridged, trapping the wrong side and rolling without bridging. Ideal for fixing a beginner's bridge-and-roll.

Gordon Ryan on the elbow-knee escape from mount with an emphasis on keeping the elbows inside and clearing the knee line. Short and dense; assumes you already know the basic movement.

Lachlan Giles explains how to pick the escape based on where the top player's weight sits: bridge when they lean forward, hip escape when they sit back. Good decision-making framework.

Lachlan Giles on removing the grapevines before you can shrimp, a common sticking point when the top player rides low mount.

Jean Jacques Machado explains why the upa fails against people who know it is coming and how to fix the trap and the bridge direction.

A dedicated hydraulic mount escape: knees under the hips, lift, and slide the opponent toward your guard.

Giancarlo Bodoni's kipping-escape class, the New Wave version of driving the hips and knees to dump a mounted opponent.

Brian Glick compares the knee-elbow escape with the kip escape from no-gi mount and when each is the right choice.

Rosie Rollz (Rose Miller) on why escapes stall: survival and frames have to come before the shrimp, or the pin just resets.