Kote Gaeshi
Used In Actual Hand-to-Hand Combat
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I’ll stick with my combative martial arts training
This reminds me of a course I took 10 years ago called CDT – Control, Direction, Takedown. Anyone familiar with it? The idea was to do little harm, but to stun, grab, add pain, and get them on the ground.
I trained in Tomiki Aikido and at the end of every session we did tanto arandori training this was frantic but still controlled, also the knife was used as a front strike only no slashing etc.,In a real situation its not really much use. Except the heightening of awareness and leg fitness helps to avoid and run.
It’s an under rated wrist lock. We have used that wrist lock for years. I used it in grappling competition , on the street as a cop and in the club grappling and dynamic knife disarms.
90%+ garbage. Only one example of using it in a fight (and he ended up in a kneebar, LOL), the rest were either grappling matches (not fights) or willing ukes.
It’s certainly not high %, that’s for sure.
Great technique & timing
That was to see it half way work in a cage fight.
I would think any wrist lock could be effective for takedowns if someone is dumb enough to keep giving you his hand and you know what you are doing. I can see a lot of that working in grappling, but much less effective if someone is punching you in the face while you are trying to perform your technique.
Trav, your advice in your email that throws don’t finish fights and that we should follow him to the ground to get top position is so factually wrong and bad I hardly know what to say. Throws into the concrete KO guys all the time. A joint-lock throw obviously can and has broken bones before they even hit the ground. All kinds of joint-lock throws are quite possible, particularly if the opponent has been stunned with strikes first, though continuous striking and mauling is still safer. Why not give up the MMA sports mentality and get real? Going to the ground for armbars etc. when you never know how many extra threats [other attackers &/or weapons] will appear is suicidal. Clinching has many drawbacks, not least of which is the fatal flaw of losing mobility.
Hey Dan, your opinion is simply wrong. It will take you YEARS to learn throw technique effective enough to make it work at a respectable %, and even then, most of your throws are foiled if the guy is wearing a T-Shirt and you no longer have grips. Hey… show me one example of a joint lock breaking bones before a throw is finished. Show me that in the UFC, or in a street fight, or in any recorded fight in the history of pugilism. I’ll wait. Compare the % of fights ended with throws to the % rate of throw success and you have the answer to this idiotic riddle. Also, explain how a kote gaeshi can possibly end the fight. Hm… Seems like you should probably take top position. Take off your judo gi and come join us in reality, Dan.
Any martial arts is good if used properly.