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Just curious if any of you have a specific technique you like to use when you are trying to stand up using the cage? Fighting in the cage (grappling) next month against a very worthy opponent. I want to be prepared if I'm trying to get out of a bad spot.
Great question. I am interested as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by stan myaskovskiy
Do you have a cage to practice in? As far as specific technique it would vary depending on exactly how you and your opponent as positioned. We do a drill with a round timer, one guy starts with his back on the cage standing or sitting and the other guy tries to keep him there.
From sitting I kinda rock against the cage like your doing the worm (but obviously not laying on your stomach) I just try to push them down and away while bouncing off the cage (doing a worm motion with my hips spine). Fries your legs worse than squats. I notice most of the guys seem to twist their hips more side to side as them come up, doesn't really work for me.
If you're standing then there's the move we're all familiar with where you bounce against the cage and as you come off, pull your opponent on the side you have an overhook and twist to change positions.
You should practice in a cage if you can to learn to ignore the discomfort of the actual fence grinding into you and to get the bounce down.
Hopefully some actual fighters will answer this for you. Good luck.
It's really very position-dependent. For example, if you're taken down against the cage with a double leg, it depends on whether you wind up with your legs under him, or to the side (if he cut the corner). Try to keep your hips as close to the cage wall as possible, so you can use your shoulders most effectively to wall-walk. Push his head away.
Really, this is a very difficult thing to discuss in text, unfortunately.
Shoulder walk up the cage. You alternate shoulders rocking from side to side. It is the easiest way to work up the cage with someone on top of you. Its like you are walking with your shoulder blades up the cage. Practice on a wall if you dont have a cage.
Alan Belcher made a short video that is pretty good: https://youtu.be/8w7ltBrdyig
You could probably watch every Bisping fight also, he is super hard to hold down.
Watch how tony got up off the cage against Kevin lee, he used a can opener from the bottom, it was glorious and worked to perfection