Mount
Being under mount, and escaping it, is one of the first survival skills in jiu-jitsu.
Survival
Protect your neck
Keep your elbows in and hands defending — stop the choke before you worry about escaping.
Frame and bump
Build frames on the hips to make space without giving up your arms.
Escapes
Elbow-knee (hip) escape
Shrimp your hips out and slide a knee through to recover guard.
Bridge and roll (upa)
Trap an arm and a leg, bridge over your shoulder, and reverse the position.
Transitions
Recover to closed guard
Once your knee is through, close the legs and take back control.
Mount retention — become a ball
Retention isn’t stretching out, it’s becoming a ball. Compact wins; sprawled leaks.
Arriving from the sprawl chase
The mount that arrives at the end of a takedown chain — knee to the hip bone from the sprawl, no guard-pass detour.
Submissions
Armbar from mount (top)
When you hold mount, isolating an arm is the highest-percentage finish.
Chest compression choke
The squeeze that denies breath through the ribs — it arrives almost by accident when they turn in.
Know your chokes (taxonomy)
Five categories — carotids, single carotid, trachea, crank, chest compression. Named pressure is technique; unnamed is just squeezing.
Detailed notes for each cell are part of Mat Notes Inside. Everything above is free to read.