The Great Escape - E17 BJJ Weekly Newsletter 18/08/2025
- e17bjj
- Aug 18
- 2 min read
Hope you all had a great weekend! Lots of excellent progress last week on controlling from mount and chaining submissions to get favourable reactions.
Instructor Note For This Week
Monday & Wednesday: Classes led by Jon. Jon is a brown belt at Inglorious Grapplers under Jude Samuels—a personal friend of mine, super friendly, and an amazing instructor with years of experience. You’ll be in great hands!
Friday: I’m back on the mats and taking class.
This Week's Classes
Fundamentals:
Monday and Wednesday: Jon will be taking you through some of his favourite moves from closed guard!
Friday and into next week - We will be covering Mount escapes. We’ll cover decision-making, timing, and common pitfalls (reaching, straight-arming, turning too early), plus of course a couple escapes for you to work while you are denying your opponent submissions!
Open Class (Immediately After Fundamentals): Stick around to roll, drill, and ask questions—perfect time to pressure-test your mount escapes and ask Jon a bunch of questions! If you haven't stuck around for one of these before, its a great way to improve your BJJ!
New Classes! Fundamentals No-Gi
Next week we launch our 3 new classes! These will be at a different venue as our current space does not allow for us to expand into any other days. All existing classes will continue at St Mary's Welcome Centre!
New Classes will take place at - Crate17, 17& Central (The Gallery Space). This is in the food court, upstairs in the Mall at Walthamstow.
Tuesday & Thursday: 18:30–19:30 - giving you that extra bit of time to make it after work.
Saturday: 10:00–11:00, our first weekend class.
You will find that No-Gi compliments your Gi game, with a stronger emphasis on frames and hooks and less on grips.
For those that have never trained No Gi before, you will need a Rash guard or fitted top, shorts/leggings (no zips).
This brings the amount of days we have classes on a week to 6!
Tip of the Week (White Belts) — Mount Escape Basics
When you’re stuck under mount, the instinct is often to fight with strength, but the escape is less about power and more about patience. First, you create stability — frames that stop your opponent from climbing higher or isolating your arms. Only once that foundation is in place do you begin to escape. Think of it like setting up scaffolding before you build: without that structure, everything collapses.
Good mount escapes come from composure. If you can breathe, frame, and wait for the right timing, you’ll find the path out much easier than if you panic and thrash.
See you on the mats!
-Mouncif
E17 BJJ
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