Issue 033

January 2008

Throw-by

1a Stance - Irving and Tiarks are both in an even square stance, with hips back to avoid being tripped.

1b grip- Irving and Tiarks have tied up. Irving has an underhook and a collar tie, modified to a headlock by linking his hands in a Gable-grip and squeezing together his elbows, driving his head into Tiarks’s neck.

2 - Irving levers down with his grip, lowering Tiarks’s head position and crushing his cervical spine.

3 - Irving shucks Tiarks's arm with an over-arm bowling motion from his underhook.

4 - Irving locks his hands together around Tiarks's chest.

5 - Irving puts one hook in and jumps on the back...

6 - and swings his leg around to get both hooks in.

Back-step throw

1- Irving locks his forearm down to bring Tiarks head position low and drives his forehead into Tiarks neck.

2- As Irving turns his hips in he raises his underhook elbow.

3- Note that as Irving continues the back-step he isn't trying to load Tiarks on his hips as in a hip toss.

4- Irving starts to sit through, dragging Tiarks down to the mat with his body weight.

5 - Irving lands in the scarf hold, compressing Tiarks ribs and keeping his head in tight.

Round knee - arrow knee

1- Irving and Tiarks square their stances off in the clinch to avoid giving away the takedown. Irving has the headlock.

2- Irving skips his left leg to the centre and cocks his right leg out to the side as far as his hips allow.

3 - Irving skips his left leg back to the start position and lands the right knee on the floating rib. Note that for delivering round knees the toes are pointed up and the heel is flat on the mat, the opposite of the straight knee.

4- Irving returns his right leg to the mat and simultaneously cocks his left leg straight back.

5 - Irving drives his knee in to the liver, this time delivering a straight 'arrow' knee; toes pointed, heel projecting up off the mat to generate maximum force.