What is the mount position?

Mount (Spanish: montada) is one of the most dominant positions in BJJ: you sit on your opponent’s torso while they are on their back. Gravity, hip pressure, and free hands give you attacks (cross-collar chokes, armbars, Ezekiel, Americana) while they fight to breathe and shrimp out. How to keep it: wide base or grapevines, heavy hips, hands posted for balance, and do not let them trap an arm and roll. High mount (knees under armpits) opens submissions; low mount is more stable against big bridges. Why it scores: in IBJJF-style rules, mount is typically 4 points after control time. Being mounted is exhausting and demoralizing, which is why escape drills (trap and roll, elbow-knee escape) are fundamentals. Searches for “montada bjj” / “montada jiu jitsu” are this position. Learn to hold it and escape it before collecting fancy submissions from it.