Mamazinho showed us a nifty little move tonight. It started out as all white belts, including some fairly new guys. Then Casey and a small, blond brown belt I remember seeing months ago, showed up. The brown belt rolled with Rodrigo. Casey joined us.
I led my first warm-up , by the way. 3 laps running, 1 lap high knees, 1 lap running, 1 lap high heels, 1 lap running, 1 side striding outside, 1 side striding inside, 1 lap 2 in/2 out, 2 sets of slow elbow escapes, 2 sets of front/back rolls. Mamazinho had us doing jumping jacks, squats, pushups, and cruches. The basic set of throws we always do ...
But there was the nifty move. You are in side control. You want to grab the guy's northside leg--the closer to the knee the better. I got a lot of back-of-thigh during drills. Basically, where ever you can find the material.
The move is in case the guy tries to move to mount. He'll signal this by switching to south-facing side control (Twister side control). What you want to do is, as he moves his legs over to take mount, you want to turn into him and trap his trailing leg with your inside leg.
The turn-in is crucial. The first leg in taking the mount is often high. But the trailing leg is always low. You don't want to have to pick it up, per se. You just turn on your side, almost as if you were going to give your back instead of being mounted. And trap that trailing leg with your inside leg, guiding it through with the grip on the pants leg (your outside hand).
From here, you want to switch from your outside hip to your inside hip, turning back into the guy and moving to take his back. There's no reason to rush it. If the guy was really moving to take mount, then the last thing he is thinking about is getting his back taken after a quick trip through a sort of reverse half-guard.
If there's a moment to be quick, then it's probably when you go to that "reverse half-guard" and trap the trailing leg. Even then, timing is more important than speed.
