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Clinch “Spears” & Palm-Turnovers by Mark Hatmaker

 


Crew, we all know the clinch game is a huge part of both the sport and the down & dirty side of vicious rough ‘n’ tumble. We wanna make this game as wise and wicked as we can while not working against ourselves.

The following “spear” or palm-turnover is just one of many tiny tweaks we can make towards the wise and wicked ways of old.

Below you’ll find the complete syllabus where this material came from.

ESP RAW 221

The Black Box Project 8: Street-Dentistry “Hair-Triggers”/Clinch Hellaciousness/Facelock 101/Frontier Trade-Knife Spheres of Attack & A Two-Fold Numbering System

Mark Hatmaker

www.extremeselfprotection.com

The Street Dentistry Parlor

Hair Triggers Versus Body-Shots: The Flanks

·        Triggers: The Modern Definition.

·        Hair-Triggers AKA Loaded Triggers: The Street-Dentist Definition

·        Flank Blocks, Fore & Aft

·        Flank Blocks as “Pre-Loaded Counter-Punch”

·        Aft Flank Block + Trigger

·        Fore Flank Block + Trigger

·        There are obviously more Hair-Trigger options but…if these two are drilled as Alpha & Omega, they become the only real and/or viable street options to Flank Attacks. Street does not require the same choices of extended sport play—it requires General Forrest’s “Get there firstest with the mostest.”

Upright Scufflin’ Hellaciousness

Much Ado About the Over-Under Clinch & Getting Into the Single-Underhook

o   [We build on the Street Single-Underhook detailed on RAW 219/220/Black Box 6 & 7 respectively.]

o   The Over-Under Clinch Form

o   “Running in Neutral”

o   Clinch Swimming is NOT the Street-Dentist way.

o   I repeat pummeling is revving the clinch-engine but does nothing to educate Clinch-Fighting.

o   Two Tools to Get Out of Neutral

o   One: The Pledge-Pry [Hand position is key, any tension in the hand is working against the self.]

o   Two: The Mid-Bump

o   Drilling the two Tools in Neutral

o   Getting Out of Neutral into the Fight

o   The Pledge-Pry to Single-Underhook

o   The Mid-Bump to Single-Underhook

o   More Toys for the Toolbox

o   The Low-Inside Bump

o   Contrary Motion of Hands is Key

o   The Double-Bump Low-to-Mid to Palm-Out Single-Underhook

o   The Triple Bump #1: The Maul

o   The Triple Bump #2: The Hook

o   The Triple Bump #3: The Mississippi Riverboat Wag

o   Quadruple Bump #1

o   Quadruple Bump #2

Mark’s Snappin’ Submission Candy Corner: Face-Locking 101

o   Reduce your commitment.

o   Elevation is your enemy.

o   Know your grips.

o   Fight the Goose

Vicious Weaponry: Frontier Trade-Knife

Spheres of Attack & A Two-Fold Numbering System

o   We will introduce a numbering system, but it is not to be thought of as an overlay on the body.

o   We will use the system in two spheres—

o   Sphere 1: The Out Range with zero attempt at the body and…

o   Sphere 2: Closing Range aka The Killing Field

o   The numbers remain the same for both spheres but…applications and deficits will emerge as we cross from one sphere to another.

o   The 7 Numbers of Frontier Tradeknife

o   Sphere 1/Grip 1 [“Hawk” Grip] Numbers of Utility

o   High Utility: 1/2/6/7

o   Low Utility [and Why]: 3 & 5

o   Do Not Use: #4

o   Work as Probing Slashes, Combos and The Killing Field Sphere to Come

o   Do not assume these number evaluations hold for the other grips—au contraire.

o   Know your grips.

o   Know your spheres

o   Know your angle +’s & -‘s.

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