Escape From The Sprawl PositionFiled Under: Instruction
Don’t you just hate it when you shoot in for a take down and your opponent sprawls nicely, flattening you out on to all fours with him on top of your back? Me too. From this sprawl position, the top grappler has plenty of options – anaconda, guillotine, taking the back, you name it. But what does the bottom grappler have? Not much. I think the best option is to try to escape into a better position. Here’s one idea:
It’s basically the high school wrestling “sit out”, and I think it works pretty well. I’ve been experimenting with a couple of other ideas for this situation, and when I refine them I’ll post. If you have any techniques you like from this position, let us in on them!
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Tags: escapes, failed take down, grappling, sprawl position, wrestling
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- BartB
- 20 Jan 2009 9:30 AM
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January 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Just a few of comments on the move: First, if you watch the move you’ll note that the bottom person int he video is placing one hand on the ground, and using it as a pivot point. That’s key. One thing that can really help wit that is to make sure that the pivot hand is centered, rather than off to the side. In the video here it seems to be slightly to the right. Try it with it more centered and I think you’ll see that it helps.
Another item is to try to grab their hand or fore arm with your hand that is on the side you are doing the “duck under” on. In the case of this video that is the left hand of the bottom man grabbing the wrist of the right hand of the top man. This gives you a lot more control over the should as you duck under it, and allows you to put on some pressure if you need to.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Oh yeah, you can check out the guys from Crazy Monkey Defense drilling the sprawl escape here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYgUHj0oxQM
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 am
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