Let’s keep it real: there have been lots of times when you were stuck in your training partner’s or opponent’s Mount when you’ve resorted to doing the bridge and roll technique – otherwise known as the Upa – to escape… But failed doing so more often than not, coming to believe that: „Shucks, the Upa is just not practical! It’s too easy for them to prevent it!“
Well, as somebody once said – BJJ is perfect, it’s the practitioner that makes mistakes. And so is the case with the Upa; there are details which, if you get them right, will make this technique work wonders for you.
In this video, BJJ coral belt Pedro Sauer, a student of the great Rickson Gracie, shows some never before seen details to the Upa mount escape. Sauer shows a unique way to block the opponent’s foot, which twists the body.
Once he sweeps his opponnent and ends up in the guard, he has a follow-up trap which gives him a straight arm lock.
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