You can learn a lot about leg lock defense in this one, this one will be studied for years, enjoy!
http://youtu.be/elEX7R0v1T8
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You can learn a lot about leg lock defense in this one, this one will be studied for years, enjoy!
http://youtu.be/elEX7R0v1T8
Tonon going for those kneebars was a thing of beauty. Darabedyan's defense was sharp though and he never got flustered. He was definitely in his comfort zone. It seemed that a lot of the preemptive leg lock defense came from good open guard principles, i.e. having points of contact established and not leaving things dangling. If nothing else, this gave enough time to already start working towards defending one way or another with hip rotation and/or attacking the other guys legs. Their knowledge of leg locks was impressive though. They were going for a number of things I've only seen in that Zogopedia but haven't really gone for. Things that were used as counters to other things. Countering leg locks with leg locks. :cool: Non-leg lock related, I think it was at about 3:35 into the video that Tonon had an outside lockdown and brought his legs up to set up a stage 1.5 triangle (sort of a meathook-esque position). I've been having trouble switching btwn lockdown to rubber guard so it was nice to see that variation.
Awesome match. Interesting how Gary defends the back paritcularly the RNC, with that high elbow 'ansering the phone' style tactic. Eddie, what are your thoughts on this and have you messed with it at all?
I'm not sure if i would call that defense per say. I think I would call it awareness more than anything. I only saw a couple of times when both Garry and Karen had to "defend" the foot locks. I enjoy watching the transitions more than anything.
Yeah I agree some of those bites tonon had where nasty. For sure Karen just gritted thru some of those. But damn the transitions and entries where slick. This match and Cummings X Cocco where my favorite for leg attacksQuote:
Originally Posted by Scott Yockel