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cathyr19355) wrote2010-06-03 09:36 pm
cathyr19355) wrote2010-06-03 09:36 pm
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My Education Continues...
Meanwhile, I continue to acquire real-life advances to my personal Dangerous quality at MMA class. I intend to sum up the techniques we learned tonight for my own edification, but will place them under an lj-cut for those of my friends who have no interest in same.
Tonight's class was all about taking an opponent off his feet and/or controlling his movements so he cannot hit you.
Technique No. 1: Bend your knees a bit as you advance on the opponent, holding your forearms in front of you like a boxer. When you make contact, duck your head around the side of his body, move your arms to encircle the torso, and clasp your hands together without using your thumbs or interlacing your fingers.
Technique No. 2: From the Technique No. 1 position, if he tries to turn to hit you, step sideways so that the center of your torso is now pressed against the side of his torso. Maintain grip.
Technique No. 3: From the Technique No. 2 position, step behind the opponent, and as you do so slide one hand up under his armpit, placing your palm on his neck. Move your other hand under the other arm and join the first, or clasp the shoulder instead. From here, you can back up, forcing him to fall onto his rear. If he tries to bend forward, go with it, kicking his leg out from under him as he does so.
There were further techniques for holding him on the ground, depending whether he lands face down, face up, or on hands and knees. The first two both involve placing one knee across his midsection (right above the groin) while reaching under one arm, driving your shoulder into his body at or near his head, and clasping your hands together. Flattening yourself to the floor on top of him makes it harder for him to regain his position. Or, you can mount him (move so that you're kneeling astride him.) If he is on hands and knees, you move your knee underneath his torso as you clasp him under the arm and press your weight against his upper body. (I think there's something else to that last one, but my memory is failing me here.
Interesting useful stuff.
Tonight's class was all about taking an opponent off his feet and/or controlling his movements so he cannot hit you.
Technique No. 1: Bend your knees a bit as you advance on the opponent, holding your forearms in front of you like a boxer. When you make contact, duck your head around the side of his body, move your arms to encircle the torso, and clasp your hands together without using your thumbs or interlacing your fingers.
Technique No. 2: From the Technique No. 1 position, if he tries to turn to hit you, step sideways so that the center of your torso is now pressed against the side of his torso. Maintain grip.
Technique No. 3: From the Technique No. 2 position, step behind the opponent, and as you do so slide one hand up under his armpit, placing your palm on his neck. Move your other hand under the other arm and join the first, or clasp the shoulder instead. From here, you can back up, forcing him to fall onto his rear. If he tries to bend forward, go with it, kicking his leg out from under him as he does so.
There were further techniques for holding him on the ground, depending whether he lands face down, face up, or on hands and knees. The first two both involve placing one knee across his midsection (right above the groin) while reaching under one arm, driving your shoulder into his body at or near his head, and clasping your hands together. Flattening yourself to the floor on top of him makes it harder for him to regain his position. Or, you can mount him (move so that you're kneeling astride him.) If he is on hands and knees, you move your knee underneath his torso as you clasp him under the arm and press your weight against his upper body. (I think there's something else to that last one, but my memory is failing me here.
Interesting useful stuff.