Alias · Top Positions
Half-turned mount
Also known as Technical Mount — Bottom — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: colloquial
Informal — half-turned under the mount
Half-turned mount is a colloquial name for the technical mount bottom position — describing the bottom player half-turned onto a side under the mount.
Etymology. “Half-turned” describes the in-between posture, rolled partway toward a side as the mount follows into technical mount; the label is informal, naming the body position from underneath.
Mechanics. Escape requires destabilising the top player’s following weight before the turn exposes the back: bumping and re-facing unsettles the technical mount so the bottom player can turn back in rather than continuing to the back. A settled technical mount takes the back, while an off-balanced one can be turned back under.
Cross-reference. “Step-out mount bottom” and “Back-exposed mount bottom” are sibling aliases. Full mechanical coverage on Technical Mount — Bottom.