The Basics of Mounts
by Kephri Ra on Feb.25, 2009, under Grappling, MMA for Beginners, Techniques
There are a small group of techniques which are absolutely fundamental to mixed martial arts and which any would be MMA fighter must know inside out and back to front. One of these techniques is the mount.
Anyone who has ever watched and MMA fight will know that most fights go down to the mat at some point, and that many fights are won and lost through grappling in this ‘ground game’. During this phase of a fight – when both fighters are grappling on the ground – there are two primary techniques (each of which has a number of different manifestations) which almost everything else is based on. These basic and fundamental techniques are the defensive ‘guard’ positions, and the offensive ‘mount’ positions. Basically the mount is when you have your opponent on their back and you assume the most dominant possible position for either moving into a submission hold or a ‘ground and pound’ knockout. The guard, which I will deal with in another post, is used to prevent the other person from gaining an mount position.
Here’s my pick of the two best online video tutorials demonstrating the basics of the MMA mount
