No Holds Barred Fighting: The Clinch (eBook)

Offensive and Defensive Concepts Inside NHB's Most Grueling Position

Mark Hatmaker (Autor)

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2006 | 1. Auflage
Tracks Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-884654-45-9 (ISBN)

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With its complete focus on a single fighting position, this handbook unsparingly examines the clinch. In the clinch, theno-holds-barredcombattechniques of striking and grappling meet,posing new challenges andcallingfor newstrategies. With these detailed explanations of each aspect of positioning in the clinch, fighters can set up their own clinch takedowns and beatthose used against them in the ring. The unique striking tools, protection strategies, and takedowns the clinch requires are explainedfor both offense and defense, moving smoothly between each fighting element to maximize advantage. A clinch situation is an inevitability in NHB fighting, and this reference gives fighters the most complete education in turning the clinch to their advantage.

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1 Clinch varieties There is a staggering number of ways two competitors can choose to clinch. Some involve gis or other forms of jacketed wrestling grips. Others utilize various forms of wrestling belts, while others start the wrestlers in grips that may seem a bit artificial to our UFC/Pride jaundiced eyes. Each tie-up has its value within a given game. For our twin sports,we limit ourselves to three main clinches and provide variations within each on aper-technique basis. Head clinch The head clinch is also known as the Muay Thai tie-up or the plum blossom.This clinch is ideal for the striking game but less effective in takedown potential. Clasp your hands behind your opponent's head. Use a palmto-palm grip.Caution: Do not interlace your fingers. Doing so puts you in jeopardy of breaking or dislocating a finger.Squeeze your elbows together.While squeezing your elbows together, strive to drive one elbow/forearm ahead of the other. This cants your opponent's head at an awkward angle. Anytime you can get your opponent's head out of alignment, do so.Do not leave his head free between your bodies - pull his head down with a series of short jerks and place his forehead on your upper sternum. Jerking the head is far more effective than a smooth pull. The jerking makes it harder for your opponent to resist, even if he is stronger.Once his forehead is planted on your chest, drive your chest up and forward and drag his head toward you as if you wanted to make his chin touch your solar plexus. This places his head at an even more precarious angle, and as you can see, makes the placement of strikes all the sweeter. Two ways to grip - Overgripping on the right. Undergrippingon the left. Both work. Head to head - Drive to push him off balance. Collar and elbow clinch This clinch is the bread-and-butter of many wrestling styles, and we covered it in moderate detail in Takedowns.We won't repeat that material here, but we can't ignore this position and its relative value to the clinch game.The collar-and-elbow clinch is versatile for use in setting up takedowns, but due to the space between bodies that can be used to set up strikes, it is of negligible value in the NHB game. Place your right hand on the back of your opponent's neck. He will do the same.Grip his right forearm - the crook of his arm - with your left hand.This grip can be an overhook or an undergrip with a pinch.Use head pressure against his head to drive him off base (balance) or place your forehead against his right shoulder to defend against strikes (particularly headbutts if you choose to use this clinch in NHB). Over-under clinch This is the go-to clinch seen most often in both NHB and submission wrestling.We will spend most of our offensive and defensive efforts on this topic. It only makes sense to play the percentages. It occurs commonly because: It is a fallback to thwart shots.The lack of space between bodies makes the fighter less susceptible to strikes than the previous...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• ISBN-10: 1-884654-45-2 / 1884654452
• ISBN-13: 978-1-884654-45-9 / 9781884654459