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Old School "Wedge" Exposure by Mark Hatmaker

 


Crew, to get that underhook, that duck-under, that roof, or any descending go-behind, there is often an affinity for flaring [lifting the obstructing limb] to get to where you want to be.

Counter-intuitively, I’ll tell you that is the opposite of what you want to do.

We discuss in this clip an easier wedge exposure [the wedge in question here will the be the right armpit wedge] and offer a hint or two at why flaring is…

1)    Wasted effort

2)    Poor bio-mechanics.

3)    Thinking “strength” not old school smarts.

4)    How you are unwisely opening your own wedge in attempting to gain a wedge, in other words creating the self-same opening on yourself that you want on your opponent.

[Would you drop your hands to throw a punch? Of course not.]

When a clinch hits, you can feel who wants to flare as soon as you “slap on.” Give ‘em a clock-tick and they’ll give you a wedge with their unwise “offense” and you’ll have the angle and be wearin’ ‘em out lickety-split.

We leave out the Oklahoma Pop and the AoI Head-butt here but suffice to say that is part and parcel of every old school wedge exposure once it goes live-fire.

For waaay in the weeds details on this topic I offer the complete syllabus for RAW 220/Black Box 7 below.

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The Black Box Project 7: “Floating Cages”/Clinch Hellaciousness/The Ground Correlate/Mark’s Candy Corner/Frontier Trade-Knife

Mark Hatmaker

www.extremeselfprotection.com

 

The Street Dentistry Parlor

Knuckle-Busting Versus Body-Shots: The Floating Cage

·        Jack London on This Borrow from Battle Royale aka “The Interposing Elbow”

·        Standard Body-Block Position: Forearm Caging

·        Standard Forearm Caging Drill—The Catch-All

·        The Battle Royale “Interposing Elbows” Floating Cage

·        Fluid Shoulders and “The Wise Drift”

·        The Floating Cage vs. Straights

·        The Floating Cage vs. Hook Angles

·        The Floating Cage vs. Uppercut Angles

·        Incorporating High-Line Knuckle Busting [RAW 219] & The Floating Cage

The “Dirty Dog” Parlor [Low-Line Frontier Kicking]

Three from The Lumberjack Scufflin’ Tradition

·        The Sharp-Shod

·        The Instep-Shin-Juncture

·        The Spiked Skid

·        The Spiked Skid + The Shove

·        The Spiked Skid + “The Maul”

·        Rossing

·        Rossing into Sharp-Shods

·        Rossing into Spiked Skids

 

 

 

 

Upright Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Getting Into the Single-Underhook: From Outside to Inside

o   [We build on the Street Single-Underhook detailed on RAW 219/Black Box 6]

o   The Bucksaw Drag as Clinch-Bait

o   Inverted Grips & Pit-Drags as Clinch-Bait

o   The Foolhardiness of Shallow Drags [You’ll need this for Frontier Trade-Knife]

o   Ease of Drag Loss

o   Poor Fulcrum

o   Flaring from the Proto-Clinch

o   Jerk to Wedge Exposure from the Street Collar & Elbow Clinch

Ground Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Bottom Scissors Single-Underhook Ground “Throws” Variations

o   Builds directly on RAW 219/Black Box 6

o   The Mechanics of Vertical Throwing hold for the Horizontal, we simply must adjust applications here and there.

o   Important: These are all offered in linear operational terms. Follow them ABC/123 and you will get your reversal.

o   Dealing with Corkscrew Failures

o   The Cross-Step Corkscrew Throw vs. Smother

o   The False Lateral Drop vs. an Exiting Opponent

o   The “False Outside Trip” vs.  an Exiting Opponent & Lost Far-Arm Control

o   The False Inside Trip” vs. a Rising Exiting Opponent & Lost Far-Arm

Mark’s Snappin’ Submission Candy Corner

o   Street Collar & Elbow Snap to Front Head & Arm-Control

o   BTW-Works just fine for Short Offense.

o   Turn the Corner Head-Pop Breakdown

o   Near-Side Non-Turning Cradle

o   To Overleg Non-Turning Cradle

o   To Cradle Crunch

o   Turning the Shoulders is never in the cards here, Crew—We’re looking for snaps not points or pins.

o   The Cradle-Crunch not mean enough for you? Then hit the next move but….only in slow-motion drill. Period. The name is no joke.

o   The Man-Killer

Vicious Weaponry: Frontier Trade-Knife & Tomahawk

Two-Stances, Not, One

This ain’t fencing and a trade-knife ain’t a sword, a foil, a saber, nor a rattan stick.

o   The Offensive Lead

o   “Stepping Into It”

o   “Drawing Into It”

o   The Knee-Bend

o   The Pivot

o   The Lead Hand

o   [We’ll alter the wording but…] “Hand on your…”

o   Advancing Shoulders

 

o   Tomahawk Version aka “You Have a Bigger…”

 

o   The Defensive Lead

 

o   Tomahawk Version

 

o   Walking the Two Stances

o   Walking the Stances w/ Grip-Drift

o   The “Hawk”

o   The Spine

o   The Skinner

o   The Digger

 

 

o   “Why So Low?”

o   We’re killing not counting coup.

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