Roger Gracie's basic lapel choke: feeding the opponent's own collar and finishing with posture rather than arm strength.
Submissions
Submissions
Armbar, cross collar choke, arm triangle, americana, Ezekiel and mounted triangle - the mount attack chain.
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Techniques in this topic
Resources
20 resources
YouTube videos
Andre Galvao's americana from mount with the weight distribution that stops the bottom player bridging during the lock.
Nicky Ryan's twenty-minute no-gi mount class at B-Team covering how to hold mount and the main attacks that follow from it.
Danaher's perfect armbar: the top lock, head position and the small pivot that finishes when the classic two-on-one stalls.
Roger Gracie teaches his cross collar choke from mount in full: getting the wrist to the neck before gripping, shifting weight to the grip side, and going around the defence for the second hand.
Learn How To Do The Perfect Jiu Jitsu Mount Attack by John Danaher
Bernardo Faria BJJ Fanatics YouTube
John Danaher's long-form lesson with Bernardo Faria on how to attack from mount, focusing on how the position is set up before any submission is attempted.
Chewy's short version of the arm triangle from mount for beginners.
Rob Biernacki and Stephan Kesting build the tightest possible armbar from mount by breaking posture, wedging the arm off the body and taking out slack before the finish.
Gracie Breakdown on the triangle from mount for beginners, set up off the opponent's push.
Gordon Ryan on the mount attacks every blue belt should have, linking the head-and-arm and the armbar off the opponent's reactions.
Lachlan Giles on the armbar from mount: isolating the arm, controlling the head and the fall-back without losing the elbow.
Lachlan Giles on the arm triangle from mount: driving the elbow up, the bite on the neck and keeping the elbow low so the choke still works when you dismount.
Lachlan Giles on the americana from mount, with the details that stop the bottom player straightening the arm or bridging out of it.
Lachlan Giles' mounted triangle: entering from high mount when they frame, locking the legs from above and adjusting the angle to finish.
Jean Jacques Machado on setting up and finishing the Ezekiel choke from mount, including how to hide the sleeve grip.
Roger Gracie's finishing details for the head-and-arm choke from mount, including the slide off to the side and where the head goes.
Davies' head-and-arm choke, the kata-gatame finish from mount or the slide to the side.
Why Your Mount SUCKS
Ffion Davies YouTube
Ffion Davies on why most people's mount is easy to escape, and the weight, hips and attacks that make it hold.
Roger Gracie teaching the armbar from mount, including the S-mount step that isolates the arm.
Safe side-control-to-mount with an armbar finish, keeping the far arm trapped so they cannot elbow-escape.