Quarter mount
Where passes stall — the trapped knee, the opponent crunched small. Two honest roads out: the pressure pass as a labelled shortcut, and the Ezekiel that steers your partner into the mount you wanted.
Survival
Crunch small, chin in
Crunched small with the chin tucked, denying the space that would free a trapped knee.
Escapes
Frame the crossface, recover half
Frame against the crossface and slide back to half guard before the mount arrives.
Transitions
Pressure pass (the shortcut)
Forearm across the jaw, weight through the elbow — the old-school pressure pass, taught honestly as the shortcut it is.
Chest-to-chest, free the knee
Chest-to-chest to weaken the shoulder, bicep punch to free the trapped knee, then climb to mount.
The far-side Ezekiel steer
A real Ezekiel attacked on the far side — whether it finishes or not, defending it turns them into your pass.
The three-second mount hold
Got the mount? Stay. Three full seconds — collect the reward before you spend it.
Sprawl-to-mount chase
Head to head, sprawl heavy over the trapped knee — then chase to mount, the knee travelling to the hip bone, stepping over, arriving. The chase is mount, not a guard pass.
Back-mount option
When the chase can’t take the mount cleanly, the same sprawl pressure redirects to the back instead.
Submissions
Ezekiel choke
Knuckles visible, thumb as the measuring stick — deep enough to choke, shallow enough to keep your base.
Chest compression
The squeeze that denies breath through the ribs, not the neck — it arrives almost by accident from mount.
Arm triangle entry
A single carotid with structure — the arm triangle, off the same mount pressure.
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