SINGLE LEG TAKEDOWN
The first Takedown we want to work on, is just a basic single leg. We are going to work it out in a really common position, that is a wrestler's clinch, or a head and arm clinch, okay? So we are here. We call it head and arm clinch, because both of us will have our opponent's head and our opponent's arm. A lot of us call it a wrestler's clinch, because wrestlers end up here a lot, is a very common clinch. You will see a lot people when they get here, they'll start throwing punches and will start working Takedowns, very common position. What we are going to do is, we are give our opponent a good bump with our arms. I am going to use this part of my forearm across my opponent's chest. I am going to bump him really hard. So when I am here, bump, when I create that space, I am going to drop down, and see how one leg, in this case this one, is closer to me.
When I give him that bump, I am going to put my knee on the floor directly between his legs in front of my toe. So literally like this. I am going to step behind him with my other leg. When I do that, I am going to put my ear on the outside of this thigh, and my shoulder directly on the front of his knee, okay? So I am here, I am going to give him a bump, I am going to push this knee to the ground ,and step behind him. When I am here, my head is glued to his thigh, I am here, now, I just push him forward and I don't want to just jump up, because I am going to lay in his guard, that's no good. I want to stay low, and I want to keep contact with him, walking around into side control. Come up in a good side mount, okay? Just look at that in another angle. We are here. I am going to give him a good bump, and my lead leg, I am just going to put my knee down in between his legs, in outside leg steps behind his. So a good bump, knee down, step in deep, ear on his thigh, shoulder on his knee, I pick this leg up and move it up from under me, drive forward my shoulder here.
When I do that, keep contact. I don't want to end up in his guard. So I keep contact. I go all the way up into a good side control position. Another angle, we are here, I give him a good bump, my knee goes down, this leg goes across. I drive forward, keep my shoulders glued to him, come up in side control. I end up in a good side control position. That's your basic single leg, just couple of variations off for that, couple of different ways to set it up. That's your basic single leg, work it carefully.
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