I got caught in the twister for the first time today. By Brent Weedman, the Bellator fighter. Kinda a surreal experience.
Need to learn the defense.
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I got caught in the twister for the first time today. By Brent Weedman, the Bellator fighter. Kinda a surreal experience.
Need to learn the defense.
Staying out of the truck is my best advice!
Tough to say without video but as with most submissions, recognition is your first defense and by getting caught in the twister that probably has already increased your awareness. If in the future you recognize your opponent attempting to go to the truck, do everything possible to avoid allowing your opponent to control both of your feet/legs. When my students realize that's what I'm going for they will try and prevent the lockdown, try and kick out of my grip, everything they can think of... this will allow you to spin/roll out of it. It'll be a scramble but at least you are not in that disadvantageous position. If your opponent does get the truck then baseball bat control your %'s of escape continue to decrease because of positioning plus other submissions i.e. armbar from there. I don't know any "text book" defenses or escapes but that's what I have seen work on occasion.
If you are to late and get caught in the truck, then it would be a good idea to use the windshield wiper defense. Take the leg that is locked down and swing it in a rainbow like arc towards your other foot. Most often two positions occur depending on his hip placement before the defense. Either you will reverse the position and take his back or he may end up in your half guard you on bottom. If this occurs, I love going prison guard or throw up a pyramid and getting a meat hook. Prison guard can take you to the back or spiderweb, Pyramid takes you to triangles, or an array of other submissions.
Excellent tips! I would also work on Lockdown escapes. Without control of your hips, there is no Twister. And as Jay said awareness is King ;)
I'm no expert of the truck/twister yet, but some of the people I've been rolling with have started crossing their legs soon as I begin the grapevine on them from twister side. If I get them into the truck (off the Muffle or Dodge or anytime they're on all fours) soon as I roll them over they'll cross their legs too to defend from the calf crushes and crotch rip/banana split). I would concur with the earlier advice too on trying to kick your leg free to break the grapevine, or shift so that their inner hook on you (for the lockdown on your trapped leg) falls below your knee, once they lose that you can pretty much start to escape out. And of course don't let them get to baseball bat, at that point it's a wing chun that you'll likely lose...
Thanks to all for the tips- I will incorporate all of this into my thinking about how to defend. Brent…. Love the Pyramid
This is how I escape as well. I also extend the locked down leg away so that way the calf crusher option is taken away and C cup the hip so to help with the rainbow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brent Alvarez
SIDE NOTE: This will be a battle. Especially against good guys.