Locoplata Escape
Locoplata escape — the gogoplata coming at you from mount instead of guard. Keep the near arm off the mat, stay square, bridge while their base is committed.
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The locoplata is the gogoplata arriving from above. You are under mount; the top player pins your near arm flat with their shin, overhooks your far arm to lift your shoulder, comes up onto their foot, and steps a leg over your shoulder and under your chin so the shin lands across your throat. Their free arm then presses your head onto it. For the attack, see Locoplata.
It is the same choke as the gogoplata and a completely different problem. From guard the attacker has to elevate their hips, hold a leg up against your posture, and press a shin upward — a great deal of work that you can interfere with by simply standing taller. From mount none of that applies to you. Their weight is above you, the mat is behind your head, and posture is not a tool you have. Everything you know about defending the gogoplata as a passer is the wrong end of the exchange.
What you do have is a long setup to interrupt. The sequence has four steps before anything reaches your neck, and the first of them is your own near arm being put on the mat. That is where this is beaten.
Elevated RiskLocoplata (defending) is an elevated risk technique. Tracheal compression with the attacker's weight behind it. The airway is cartilaginous, with very little travel before damage and no progressive resistance to read on the way. Unlike a blood choke it does not fade you out — it produces immediate distress, coughing and a strong urge to fight in any direction, none of which is a countdown. From underneath you also cannot relieve it by posturing, which is the one thing that works against the guard-bottom version, so the sensation arriving is closer to the end of the problem than the start of it. Serious injury can occur very fast — gravity is on the attacker's side and the trachea's tolerance is unchanged.
If you are new to this technique: read this section before anything else. Understanding the danger is part of understanding the technique.
The person applying the technique is responsible for releasing immediately.
Communicate before drilling. Know your partner's experience level with this position.