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Alley Grappling 2: The Striking Clinch aka “The Head Clinch” by Mark Hatmaker




Let us talk Alley Grappling, let us talk vicious striking. Meanness so refined as to make a Muay Thai Plum Blossom clinch enthusiast jump for joy.

Let us talk an Old School Rough n Tumble tool with a staggeringly simple but, oh, so varied approach.

A tool to charm strikers, street scufflers, with enough control wiliness to make the pure grapplers salivate to the sounds of bodies slappin’ the pavement symphonic resonance.

Without giving away the elegance of this tactical cow, let us sample a little milk.

Sphere 2: The Striking Clinch

This is an Upright Position that assumes cohesion—that is non-striking body contact from which strikes can and may be launched.

Clinches are ideal for takedowns but…no takedown is addressed in the Striking Clinch Sphere.

The Striking Clinch can be over-under, Head-Tie, Collar and Elbow, Biceps Rides, Outside-2-on-1, or any other variation.

Here, we emphasize and focus 100% of our attention on The Head Clinch and beaucoup ways to…

·        Slap it on wisely.

·        Hide it with strikes.

·        Breakdown “Grips.”

·        “Shorten the Tall Man” [Breaking posture to my Muay Thai Cadre.]

·        Strike with Head-on-Collison love.

·        Toss with ease.

·        And….well, …

The watchword here being securing the clinch, riding the clinch, striking from the clinch, all in all being an effective KO or destruction artist from the clinch.

Again-No takedowns are addressed here but…a weather eye is on their possibility so all Striking/Clinch work must exist knowing that is a possibility

Clinch work that fears not a takedown is excised [the boxer’s clinch for example.]

Again…

Do not make the mistake that just because the Striking Clinch Sphere excises the takedown that the takedown does not loom large in the tactical demands.

A Striking Clinch trained as if there were no takedowns can be rendered body-crackingly irrelevant in .3 seconds.

Knowledge in all 5 Spheres is vital for complete tactical preparedness.

A Brief List of 19th-Century Gangs That Aid & Abet This Mayhem

Baxter Street Dudes

Boodle Gang

Corcoran’s Roosters

Humpty Jackson Gang

Molasses Gang

Crazy Butch Gang

Tub of Blood Bunch

Whyos

Yakey Yakes

Plug Uglies

Kerryonians

Daybreak Boys

Potashes

Sydney Ducks

Dead Rabbits

The Forty Thieves

The Bowery Boys

The Five Points Gang

The Eastgman Gang

The Molly Maguires

Bummers Gang

Fleagle Gang

Society of Bandits

Bermuda Gang

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