Purple belt · Takedown · Key
High crotch takedown
You shoot to the outside of their lead leg and hug the thigh high. Use it when their lead leg is forward and close.
Step by step
- From a hand fight, get their lead leg forward and drop your level.
- Take a penetration step to the outside of their lead leg. Your head goes outside their body.
- Wrap your inside arm deep around the inside of their thigh, high near the crotch. Your other hand holds behind their knee.
- Bring your trailing leg up and stand, your head driving into their side.
- Turn the corner: pivot your hips away and drive them down at an angle onto their hip.
- Land with your chest on their hip and pass to side control.
Details that make it work
- Head outside, ear tight to their side.
- Finish at an angle on the mat, never by lifting and dropping.
Common mistakes
- Shooting with your head inside, which gives them a guillotine.
- Lifting them high to finish. Slams are dangerous and banned.
Drill it
10 shots each side to the turn-the-corner finish at half speed.
If it fails, or what comes next
- Double-leg takedown Takedown · Standing
- Single leg (run the pipe) Takedown · Standing
- Knee cut (knee slice) pass Pass · Passing
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