Mount Escape (Elbow Escape)

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Escaping Mount Outside Knee Elbow Escape Details by Brian GlickPerfect Elbow Escape From Mount by Henry AkinsUsing frames to Elbow Escape from MountMount Retention Against The Elbow Escape (BJJ Basics)

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Key principles

• Get your elbows back inside their knees — the whole escape is about winning the inside space.
• Shrimp to one side at a time and pull the knee through on that side; chasing both legs at once achieves neither.
• Bridge to create the moment of lightness, then shrimp into the space the bridge produced.
• Half guard is a legitimate destination: getting one knee in already downgrades their position.

Common mistakes

• Shrimping with your elbows outside their knees.

  Why it failsThere is no path for the knee to come through, so the hips move and the mount stays.

  FixFight the hands and elbows back inside first, then move the hips.

• Trying to escape both legs at once.

From this position

• Americana from Mountsubmission→
• Arm Triangle Chokesubmission→