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Also 9/5/09
Worked more escape drills, from mount and side control.

From mount, we started with Saulo's survival posture- on your side, top leg stepped over your bottom leg, bottom elbow tight with hand protecting your neck, top arm snug with elbow in front of opponents hip to prevent S mount or them sliding higher on you. Standard hip-escape from there, focusing on stepping very wide and high with your basing leg in order to push your hips out against their thigh. This opens maximum space, rather than having to squeeze your hips up and out from between his legs.

Side control was the basic bridge-in/frame escape. We focused on ducking the head in toward your opponent, under their top arm, while hipping out. This moves you almost parallel to them, your hips far back and your arms extended, keeping them from putting weight back on to you. Also, we worked on rotating to face them from the hip (head back, legs in) instead of swinging your whole body in to replace guard, which collapses the space just created and will most likely leave you with your foot stuck.

Good little tricks for basic escapes. I've drilled them before, but not enough.