I haven't done much paired work during covid, due to the space limitation of often working inside. My son Brendan, agreed to try out a couple of techniques I had solo proacticed with my own Dojo and with PJ Broomy. On trying them out, we founf that due to body mechanics, a couple of improvisations seemed to work better for us than the original starting points.
I mentioned these to PJ and was asked to demonstrate, so we did the below video in response.
A couple of grappling teqniques
The first is from lock up, the original interpretation was:
Front leg mawashi geri to opponent's front leg, followed by a stomping kick to the back leg.
Ground the front foot, then Naihanchi leg sweep.
This turned into lock up, trap opponent's front foot with back foot, and deliver front leg knee strike to groint or midriff,
The second is from a guillotine head lock, the original interpretation was:
Pull down grabbing arm, deliver downward elbow to knee then upward elbow.
Head grasp then knee strike.
This turned into poll down grabbing arm, upward elbow and rising headbutt, head grasp and knee strike.
It's fair to say the first tecnique when reviewed, was thought to be genuinely effective, the second not so much, maybe a little too slow. The suggestions I got to inprove the second one included driving forward and using lateral movement. We haven't tried this out properly yet, but I'm thinking:
Grom guillotene headlock, pull down grabbing arm and drive forward whilst rotating, using a crashing elbow strike. Hopefully that should take the opponent's space, destablise and perhaps lead to a drag down with the pulling hand.. I'm hoping I might be able to video that in the near future.
It turned out that the second technique should have actually been used from a reverse headlock, which makes more sense for the downward elbow to the knee, but we had fun and probably learned a way of getting out of a guillotine choke anyway, so by no means a waste. 😊😊😊