3 BJJ Mount Positions For Self Defense / Fight (Advantage of High Mounts)

[@JiuJitsuNerd]

Chewjitsu, dude I just think you’re such a great dude who represents the art exceptionally well in the community of Jiu Jitsu, grappling and self-defense. Appreciate you sharing the knowledge. Thanks, brother!

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Appreciate the message brother!

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5:25 my cat when I'm tickling his belly.

[@bjjbrawler1]

Lol too funny

[@Djavole]

Adam is the best. Didn't even blink once during the beginning of the video. That's impressive.

[@RealizeBJJLife]

Great video!

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Thanks Chew! My fifteen minutes of Fame!

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~ @7:00 “We’re gonna cut that out” 🤣

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Chewy X Adam The best 😁✌🏻

[@WeAreSoPredictable]

0:56 The editing on that transition! From now on, you're *Stanley Chewbrick* to me. :)

[@Chewjitsu]

Hahah.

[@johnsilva3122]

Hey Bro I just subscribed to your channel. I enjoyed the great instruction basic and very effective for a street situation. Thanks so much! John

[@Chewjitsu]

Thanks John! I appreciate the comment brother. Hope I can continue to help on your path with training.

[@checkmate5101]

I’m not heavy enough to keep mount so I just move around a lot. It’s more fun and a more active roll.

[@bipedalhominid6815]

Right. I never intentionally move to mount. If it happens by accident, I will actually move back to side control. Mount is wack.

[@love2fight205]

I'm a 147 pound lanky teenager, I just try to stay as low and close to the floor (pretend you're body is like melted chocolate) as I can while keeping all my weight on their chest (and not my knees!), then keep crawling forward to high mount then work arm triangles/ triangles/ armbars/ chair sit to back.

[@mjolnir9855]

Bipedal Hominid, I say this respectfully but are you a white belt, or a less than 2-3 years into your journey? Because cross side is easier in the beginning, but once you master the fundamentals of maintaining the mount, you’ll want to get That mount as much as possible. There’s so many more submissions front mount, you can gift wrap and force them to give the back, you can smash with vines as you attack the Ezekiel or set up arm bars and cross collar chokes, punch chokes. And the beauty of mount is you can also get Americana or Kimura on either arm. Straight arm locks, hello chokes, turn it into bow and arrow chokes etc. all the while you can punch your opponent when you are in high mount, and they can’t punch you back. I highly encourage you to fight for mount and practice maintaining the mount at all costs. On the street, it’s far superior to side control.

[@Crystals10000]

i rolled with a small friend on friday he got mount and i just pushed him up with 2 hands and threw him off me xD...obviously it wouldnt work with someone whos 200lb like me and i know that but it was funny anyways

[@bipedalhominid6815]

@@mjolnir9855 you're wasting your time and words. I'm a brown belt.

[@MA-xe7jz]

Great Video Chewy

[@Mplaesword01]

Hey Coach! Any tips on how to focus on one aspect of your game without becoming a “One Trick Pony”?

[@JiuJitsuNerd]

Paulsey So, there’s only a handful of positions and submissions. In my opinion, focus on the entry aspect of your game. For example, if you’re a “one-trick-pony” with a given submission, then focus on the numerous (maybe infinite) entries/setups.

[@apollotherandom5118]

Focus on more than one to become a “multiple trick pony”

[@rickhipson3899]

Steve's stone cold smolder has got to be the stuff of legend by now.

[@derekdakan2716]

I'm watching this video thinking, "Why is the guy mad-dogging me?"

[@Chewjitsu]

What is this?

[@rickhipson3899]

@@Chewjitsu I should add that Steve's smolder is secondary only to his outstanding jazz hands. Legendary indeed.

[@bullfrogjay4383]

Good stuff 👍 thanks Chewie

[@kiebhoy4874]

Hey Chewy! I've recently joined a local BJJ gym and am having an absolute blast! Since i'm so new I don't really know any submissions so I tend to just try my best to survive. I felt like I was doing a reasonable job managing to hold off opponents and making life a bit more difficult before getting tapped until I came across one of the bigger (Strength wise) guys at my gym. He started the same time as me so we're similar in skill but he keeps getting hold of both my arms (from my guard), I cant seem to break his grips due to his strength advantage, any tips? Thanks coach.

[@I_leave_mean_comments]

Dude... the guy is black is a perfect "bad guy". He's just standing there motionless staring at me. It's freaking me out.

[@diagonalelbow887]

Used the gift wrap before on a rather large individual with psychosis. An excellent control position 👌

[@XxzephyrusxX1]

Chewy lost weight and is now looking like a snack.

[@Chewjitsu]

Always.

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Adam is making this videos fun to watch LOL

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Thanks for the vids

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You're welcome!

[@andrewovermyer4345]

Chewjitsu i use to go to a BJJ gym for about 8 years, i was in a car accident, and had several surgery's on my ankle, i can not run on it, but i still can roll. any thoughts on how i should deal with this when a BJJ gym tells me that if i cant do the running portion of the pre rolling workout, i cant attend?

[@elenchus]

oh dude, just talk to the professor, people are constantly dealing with injuries in BJJ. there's always a guy or two sitting out from the run.

[@andrewovermyer4345]

@@elenchus sadly it was the professor who told me this, he didnt want anyone who couldn't keep up with the rest of the class on everything.

[@elenchus]

@@andrewovermyer4345 wow what a jerk, and this was a school you'd been at for 8 years? Find another gym man.

[@philippehabra388]

Hey, really like your videos. Just started rolling, and been loving it. I'm 5'7' but I've been training since I was 14 years old so I have a really good cardio and I am usually stronger than my opponent, however I roll I find myself always doing the same thing. I let myself get taken down, or if we start on the floor I let myself get into a defensive position, defend until I tire out my opponent and counter him. I realized I do this because I don't know what to do at the beginning of a roll. I.e. after a take down I try to go for mount, side control, or go for the back, but when I start on the floor in any of the guards, I have no idea how to attack or defend, can you help with this. Again your videos are awesome.

[@daveb5416]

thank you chewie

[@cristianramirez2609]

The guy the bit your friend probably ended up with a messed up elbow 🤣

[@diegohernandez1205]

It's so nice to look back and think, "I coulda fucked up the me before jui jitsu so bad"

[@stevenconnolly28]

As a white belt just started 7 weeks. Should I focus on drills rather than rolling and should I only roll with people at a higher level than me? I have a slight worry that if I roll with people who are no stripe white belts and I get trashed it will knock my confidence. Keep up the good work

[@apollotherandom5118]

I say roll anyway @Steven with anyone that is ultimately the best way to get better because at some point you are going to HAVE to start rolling so why not start now? And if you let rolling with a higher belt bring down your confidence then you are only hurting yourself because no one is going to expect a brand new white belt to beat a blue belt, the only thing we expect white belts to do is stick with the sport and become something greater.

[@stevenconnolly28]

@@apollotherandom5118 thank you

[@strangelove6757]

Just started myself and have only rolled with purple belts. I expected to get crushed but seeing/feeling how these guys move is killer. How they press and use weight/gravity to wear down energy, move with efficiency and set up their moves is free lessons. Trying to mentally take notes and process keeps me up to the early morning hours. School of hard knocks training is gold.

[@stevenconnolly28]

@@strangelove6757 keep me updated with your progress

[@Damin-Danger-Ledford]

What it's the name of that last move? Say from mount, into the 'gift wrap'? In learned that my 1st day as a drop in 3 months ago. Haven't seen it since.

[@elenchus]

I've always heard it called the gift wrap too. He says that some people call it perfect mount, but I've never heard that before. If you're talking about the step he takes leading up to it where he blocks the opponent's arm across the opponent's neck or face, it's part of the set up for kata gatame AKA the scarf choke AKA an arm triangle. It's a really good one from side mount, but if you do get it in mount, you can just jump out of mount and get the angle you need to finish. Happens all the time. It's a slow choke though, so if you do get it, you need to hang onto it for a little while. It's not like an RNC where when you get it the opponent will tap out almost immediately.

[@jammydodger222Xxd]

Hi Chewy, I've got a question about getting started in jiu jitsu. Today I had my first ever lesson at a gym in my home city, not really knowing what to expect as I'd never done it before. I had two key issues, firstly the instructor didn't speak great English and I really didn't understand half of what he was saying so I don't know how I can follow instruction if I'm just trying to vaguely mimic what I see. My second issue is that I was taught two techniques which I don't really understand and then the rest of the lesson was just me getting the crap kicked out of me in open sparring. I was told to just try anything and do my best, is that normal for a jiu jitsu gym? Like I said I've never done it before so I have nothing to compare it to but I would have thought you'd at least be taught some techniques to use before being thrown into open sparring?

[@elenchus]

It's totally normal, and it's definitely a problem in the jiujitsu pedagogy. If you need tips on the techniques your professor is doing, presumably in Portuguese, you can just ask the nearest purple belt/brown belt/black belt for clarification--it helps to drill with those guys anyway since they can usually correct where you're screwing up as a white belt. As per the rolling, welcome to the demoralizing world of jiujitsu, where you will face soul-crushing defeat a dozen times per week, every week, for maybe 6 months. Eventually you'll get a clue (it happens automatically, even if you think you have no idea what you're doing) and you'll get some fresher white belts in and you'll destroy them and wonder how you did it since in your mind you suck. The important thing is to just keep rolling. Keep going to class. You ARE learning, maybe not the technique the professor taught (again, a pedagogical problem in which new techniques receive insufficient attention), but you will figure things out. Right now you just need to be learning good habits and defense. Try to survive longer. Try to avoid getting your guard passed. Try not to give up easy submissions. You almost don't even need to worry about using submissions yourself. As time goes on and you're more experienced, you'll start to work your submissions on the fresher white belts while continuing to try and survive against blue belts.

[@jammydodger222Xxd]

@@elenchus I guess that's fair enough then. I need to question whether or not this martial art is for me if that's the case, I am going to try out another couple of gyms just for comparison but with my Asperger's it's impossible for me to "pick up" new skills without manually being taught them so if there isn't going to be any direct instruction on what some different techniques are and how and when to execute them then I'm seriously gonna struggle. I have to say it does seem like a strange way of "teaching" a new skill if that's what all gyms are like. I've always thought that the best teachers are the ones that understand a student's individual goals and self-grievances and help them to overcome and achieve. If you're just throwing people into fights and you don't speak the language so you can't even communicate with your students to get to know them.... Having said that I don't have a problem with live sparring in fact it's the reason I wanted to get into jiu jitsu since before I've only practiced traditional martial arts that proved ineffective due to lack of live sparring. It's just that I expected to receive some level of basic training before sparring openly.

[@elenchus]

​@@jammydodger222Xxd Well, I wouldn't say all gyms, just most I've been to. Generally the pattern is a short (maybe 5-10 minute) demonstration by the professor on a student where a new technique is gone over, maybe 10 minutes of one on one drilling of that technique with the student and a partner where the professor walks around correcting technique, and maybe 20 minutes of rolling (setting aside warm up/cool down aspects of a one hour class). During the roll, if you have a good partner, you might ask to be put in a situation where the technique de jour might be useful. For instance, if you were working on the armbar from guard that day, you might ask your partner if you can start in guard. After class students will usually get together to do some extra drilling on the mats too before the next class starts. In my opinion, this needs to be an extra stage in the drilling of every class, but that's not currently the BJJ pedagogy. Go ahead and try a few gyms, but I'd also recommend you try judo. Judo is almost the inverse--there is usually rolling (randori in judo terminology) every class, but the focus of judo is much more on drilling individual techniques. It's still fully grappling and there are still jiujitsu skills taught (ne waza) so if you do want to go over to BJJ, you will have a nice advantage from that training. That's my personal path.

[@jammydodger222Xxd]

@@elenchus ok thanks man I'll bare that I mind but yeah what you described isn't what happened at the gym I went to, there was about 2 minutes of him quickly demonstrating a technique then like an hour of me just getting destroyed but not even in a way that I could have tried that technique. I actually was planning to look into judo as well so hopefully I'll find another bjj gym and then once I'm settled in I'll start judo as well

[@elenchus]

@@jammydodger222Xxd Yeah, that does seem pretty extreme. I don't think I've been to a gym where there isn't at least some drilling (not enough in my opinion) between the lesson and the fighting. But wherever you go, getting destroyed many times a night is going to be part of the process. It's pretty demoralizing. But everyone goes through it.

[@nanoellis5366]

Had my first BJJ class today, I'm hooked!

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why is the guy in the black gi mad at me?

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The bald guy looks like danger mouse

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