This week the techniques are from side control or crossbody. Rodrigo showed us how to control the upper body and guy's arms so that you can easily take the mount.
From basic side control with your north arm hooking the head and the south arm hooking the near leg, you want to reach over the guy's body with your south arm and, sliding it along his body, underhook or cup his shoulder. It's a brabo type of move that has you turn your wrist out a bit.
With your north side arm, you want to reach down and move his near elbow, the one that is likely blocking you. To do this, you switch your hips as if moving to a scarf hold position. As you pull up on the guy's elbow, make sure that you use your body to push the elbow up and away.
This is a crucial step. Not only does it make it easier to move the arm of a strong or heavy opponent, but also using your body makes it easier to get the guy to turn more on his side - or at least his upper body will. This makes it easier to pin that near arm up (elbow above shoulder) and out of harm's way.
As you do this wedge, you should move into a very high scarf hold position. Your inside knee should be near the top of the guy's head.
Once you've got the near arm wedged up, reach with your north hand between that arm and the guy's head so that you are once again hooking head. This time however, you want to wrap both the head and the guy's far arm in your arms and seal it with a Gable grip.
As you do this, switch your hips over so that you are back to both knees. Do this buy bringing your back knee up to exactly the spot that your inside knee was. Again, you are switching from a high scarf hold back to knees.
With both the guy's arms bundled up tight, you want to twist his upper body away, bringing your elbows up. This will create space to wedge into knee on belly. Continue twisting to get all the way to mount.
