The Mount and the back! Is it harder to maintain than side?

[Adonis]

Really? what angles you do or how you place or balance your weight on the opponent. when going for a key lock from mount my body has more weight leaning towards that side. So how you keep from getting rolled over?

Thats why I focus on Key lock from side mount.

[AndrewGreen]

Well, if you're looking at it as a transition to something else you don't need to fully pin it, just get the grip.

It you are looking to finish a keylock the trick is to use your shoulder to pin his face so that he is looking away. Then don't twist on it, slide his wrist down, imagine his wrist is a paint brush and paint a arc. Your elbow goes up your leg, but don't lean in and twist like many do.

[AndrewGreen]

Ok, here's some more mount ideas that I posted elsewhere, figured they'd fit nicely here too:

1) In order to attack the arms or the neck you generally need to get the elbows away from the body. So, with your right hand grab there right shoulder, use it as a folcrum to apply a forearm choke across the neck. You won't get a tap but they will have to defend it, often by grabbing your wrist. As they do this grab there right wrist with your right hand, slip your left hand between there forearm and bicep and grab your right wrist. Same grip as a keylock/Americana. Push this to the floor to try and finish, you likely won't get it, but you will get pressure back from them, switch directions and pull it up, swing your left leg over there head for a arm bar. Or, after pulling it up duck under it for a arm triangle.

2) Another way to get there elbows away is to punch them in the face, they will bring there arms up to defend, when they do this use your hips to drive into them, and force one of there arms across there face. It is important to do this with your hips and body weight instead of your arms. Reach under there head and grab there wrist, their arm should be wrapped around there head almost as if they where trying to rear naked choke themself. Sit up and pull it tight. From here you have a few options, you can go to an arm triangle fairly straight forward, or: assuming you are grabbing their left with your right, bring your left knee up, foot tight to there belly and pull them up so that they are on there side, your right knee tight to there back. Feed your left hand threw and grab your wrist, in one motion pop yours (and his) arms over his head and swing your leg over and fall back to a arm bar. Alternatively from the sam position up to the arm feed threw, grab his free elbow and sit him up, scoot under and take the back.

3) From a low tight pin, left arm under his head, right arm out to the right, head on the floor. You will often get the opportunity to gain control of his right wrist, use your right hand to aid but you want to get a hold of it with your left (the one under the head). Set up your keylock hand postion with your left still around his head, you won't be able to finish it from here though. In one motion pop it over his head and free, and use your left shoulder to press into his face forcing him to look away. "Paint the line" to finish by slidding it down and bringing his elbow up, not twisting on it.

4) Bottom guy has his elbows tucked tight, push his left down and pop your right knee over it, bringing your foot up under his head, drive your hips forward and grab your right foot(which is under his head) with your left hand forcing his arm up, take the triangle while mounted, or roll to your back if you prefer. If he plants his hand on your hip to stop it, take the arm bar.

5) Grapevine his feet and suck them up as tight as you can, keeping the hooks pivot your self to face the left, bringing your left leg up and sitting back slightly. This will bring his hips up and cause him a fair bit of discomfort on both feet, Grab his right foot and pull it in to finish, there are a few other leg lock finishes here if you like, and the discomfort of being in this position will likely cause him to break posture and open up arms.

Anyways, there is a few different approaches, pieces can be swapped around as needed, anyone else got any they'd care to add, I might add a few more options later as well....

[Adonis]

Hey thanks for the info some of those moves I already do.

You ever go Eddie Bravo's Jiu-Jits unleashed book?

It shows a good half guard game there.