Gi Takedowns
Aug 18th, 2014 by Josh
We worked on one set-up and 3 main takedowns from it tonight.
Set-Up
- From a collar/elbow 50/50 tie-up.
- Elbow hand moves to bottom of wrist on my lapel
- Collar hand comes and grabs the meat of the hand on my lapel
- Both hands pull his hand down and away while I lean backward to break the grip
- Pass the wrist gi grip to my opposite hand
- Arm drag from wrist while reaching around and over his back onto a belt grip.
Takedown 1: Judo-ish
- “T” my hips to his
- Bring inside foot around in front and stop between his legs from the front
- My hip should hit his and my hamstring should smash his quad backward and out of the way.
- Pull on the belt grip and sling him to the ground.
- If he falls flat, follow him down
- If he falls to turtle start taking his back.
- (Seems like a good one, but in live sparring I couldn’t seem to do this without getting tipped over. Find a way to stay in base while doing this, or go faster?)
Takedown 2: Fake to Rear Fall
- Same as Takedown 1 except you simple knee fake to the front, sometimes after 2 failed attempts
- Step behind onto the back of his ankle
- Fall backwards and pull hard on belt to spin him backwards and down to the ground
- Come on top immediately
- (Like this one, but in live sparring, it was hard to get him to put his feet in a way that I could pull it off)
Takedown 3: Body Lock Sag with Knee Block
- Same set-up, only drive in hips and get side body-lock
- Work around to rear body-lock
- Sag forwards diagonally while using bent outside leg to block his steps with your knee
- Use rear foot to drive him forward at the angle
- (Didn’t like this one that much)
