- Welcome back to another episode of "Scenic Fights"
"Fight Scenes Breakdown."
I'm Chad Vázquez.
- I'm Logan Lo.
- And we have a another awesome episode of "Kengan Ashura."
You guys were showing a lot of love to the first one we did.
Thank you very much.
And in the comment section,
you guys were asking for this particular fight.
Who do we have here?
We have Imai Cosmo
the King of Stranglers
versus The Emperor, Adam Dudley.
It's a cool fight.
I'm actually very excited for Cosmo is one
of my favorite characters in the show,
obviously because he is a jitsu guy
representing my community in the anime world.
So without wasting any time, let's get into it.
Let's do it. - All right, let's see it.
- My man, Cosmo moving well,
handsome speed devil, there.
And boom, kicking the legs.
Which is smart, because Dudley is bigger than him, right?
So that's an easy spot to start hitting.
If you're going to start using kicks, target the legs
Slipping.
- [Logan] There's a big size difference.
- Oh yeah.
Yeah. Good leg kicks.
I think it's smart.
Let's actually, let's break that down.
Cosmo's fighting Dudley, a much bigger person than him.
What's smart about the leg kick,
is that as you get more active on it during the fight
and you just keep hitting that leg,
it really slows down your opponent.
In this case, Dudley, right?
As this leg gets worn out,
the ability to move and generate power
becomes much more difficult.
So let's look at the kicks.
From here, I'm Cosmo.
As he's moving, he's boxing.
The first kick, bam, right into the thigh there.
That's not going to knock down Dudley right away
but it's a good harassment tool
and kind of slowly doing wear and tear on that front leg.
So again, as he's boxing here is hitting
that's the kick he's going,
he's hitting right to the thighs,
with that first kick.
- Chad, I have question.
So I'm always concerned when I try to do an inside kick
I'm worried about the guy turning his knee in
and I just basically slam my instep into the knee.
- Well, you know what?
If he's going to check it,
he's actually just have to lift the knee up.
So if there's a knee turn.
But yeah, that would be-
- So if I did a knee turn-
- I should still be able to hit contact on the thigh there.
So actually, if you were to stop that kick.
You actually want to lift your knee up
and check it, that's different.
That's actually a good technique there.
So that's why what Cosmo's doing actually very well,
he's using his boxing,
using his hands to distract Dudley
and then set up those kicks.
And that's one example. - Gotcha.
- And he's also using his rear leg.
So if we're going to change stance here,
same concept.
Cosmo's using his lead leg.
Well done.
Using his rear leg,
harassing the legs here.
So boxing, boxing, boxing, boxing,
bam, right attack kick there.
Cosmo is being smart.
He's using speed,
he's using quick whips to get in and out
to not get in a brawl with Dudley.
So from here, it's just like an angle
and comes back.
Cosmo's a grappler, though.
What is he doing?
Dudley's a brawler.
He's kinda in a smart way,
meeting in this field of striking
to get him thinking that he's going to strike with him.
- Right.
- It's a good strategy.
Think he's striking,
and then at some point change to your strength,
which is grappling
which Cosmo's going to do later in this fight.
Nice movement.
Dudley is going at it.
All right, he's doing his gang sign.
And foom.
Oh, kani basami.
Scissor leg takedown. Pause there.
That is one of the coolest takedowns
that's in the fight game.
Very dangerous, but it's a very important move.
Why don't we break that down?
Let's go. - Wait, what?
- We're going to do it.
- On me?
- Well, you know what,
why don't you demo the kani basami for our viewers here.
Right?
- All right. - Let's go.
Cosmo does an awesome move.
The kani basami,
also known as a flying scissor leg takedown,
Anderson Silva in Pride actually lost his fight
to this move and got heel hooked,
which we'll talk about later.
Now, before we start,
let me just really do something really responsible here.
This is one of the most dangerous moves
you can do in your training.
Okay?
So as we break this down, I have to stress.
a lot of coaches don't even let
their athletes do this in sparring.
They only let their athletes do this in competition.
Okay, that's how dangerous it is.
So with that said, I'm actually going to have Logan do this on me.
Just so that I know how to fall.
Me being also a bigger guy.
So Logan will be Cosmo.
Well, you know, Logan, you're big in other ways,
so you're winning in life.
So don't worry about that.
But let's break this down, kani basami.
We'll start here with an overhook.
Okay?
Cosmo did it from a strike situation
where he just jumped into it.
We're not doing that.
- We're not. (Chad laughs)
- Okay.
Right here, what we'll do is Logan will take his lead leg
and hook my hamstring, okay?
Now I'm just gonna hold his knee for support here.
He will also put his hand on the floor,
which you see Cosmo do in this fight.
And now, Logan's going to jump his knee behind my knee.
And that is a takedown.
That is a kani basami
in which Cosmo did to Dudley.
And now, what did he do next?
He started a segway into the mount transition,
which we will have Logan demonstrate right now.
Feet go out, he steps over.
Like so.
And from here, he slides over the hip
right to a mount position.
Right to strikes.
So Cosmo went to mount, but as I mentioned before,
Anderson Silva lost a fight like this
against Ryo Chonan
and Ryo Chonan just jumped to a kani basami
and went to a heel hook.
Now we did an outside heel hook
on our "Attack on Titan" episode.
What we're demonstrating now is an inside heel hook,
slightly different mechanics.
So right here, Logan gets the heel, right?
And he'll lock his legs real tight here.
And now there's different ways to grip the knee,
but for now we'll have Logan,
say, go to his back.
As I feel pressure, he'll lock his legs real tight.
And Logan, widen your knees here.
Good, and bridge up a bit, buddy.
There you go. Okay, now when you ready?
You're just gonna rotate to your elbow to me.
Keep going and bridge up, bridge up.
(hand slapping on thigh) There you go.
And that is a demonstration of a inside heel hook.
All right, so we have a mount situation.
Punching, yep.
One of the best positions actually to be
on the ground for fighting is mount.
- Sure, now Dudley's just closing off.
- Just cover, yep, that's it.
But he's not addressing the position.
I don't think we had a good breakdown
on the usefulness of mount in combat.
Let's do that right now.
Okay, So Cosmo does a beautiful kani basami,
gets to mount and starts punching.
Smart man.
In MMA, this is actually an ideal position to be in
because obviously it helps me pin a person
and I can start attacking.
Now, we did go over
in our last "Kengan Ashura" episode
Kanoh versus Okubo about mount defense.
Let's talk a little bit about mount offense,
particularly with punches.
I'm striking.
A reaction that you do see happen a lot
is that the fighter here wants to get out
so he starts turning.
Yes, they try to do a retreat and try to get out.
The problem is, they start exposing their back.
Here's a general rule,
if you can see the back,
there's a good chance you can take the back.
Let's look at this.
I start striking.
He starts turning.
I modify my mount.
I pick one leg up, keep one knee down.
We can call this a technical mount.
Now I can see the back.
I now move to insert my seat belt.
So from here, as my arms come over,
I can bring my knee up to my elbow,
and now I have this connection.
With it, I'm going to simply sit down
and pull him into
back control,
which you guys now know leads into chokes.
Another cool option is going for arm bars,
also known as juji gatame.
So from here, I could push the head and pull the arm,
pivot, sit on my partner
and have my leg come over his head
and sit right into this position.
From here, we can lock legs
and do different methods of separating the hands.
Right into breaking.
So you can see,
the mount in combat is a beautiful pinned punching position.
And when you put a lot of pressure on the guy,
they're gonna want to turn
and it exposes the back, for great back attacks,
and also going for the arm.
The arm bar, also known as a juji gatame
and you see fighters in MMA use this strategy a lot
to their wins.
So Cosmo was on the right track
in his first against Dudley.
Okay, so Dudley can produce a lot of power at short range,
so he felt that. - Did he get a hit?
- I think he just missed it
but he felt that-
- Power. - Explosive force.
Yeah, right.
- [Logan] I like that mouth guard.
- Damn, yeah.
I think in the manga it's a different word.
- Oh my, what word? - I think it's duck.
Yeah, it's duck.
- Oh, it's duck. - Yeah, yeah, it's duck.
- Gotcha. - All right,
now he's just unleashing just-
- Hell. - Hell, yeah.
- He's unleashing hell. - Hell, right?
- Uh oh, oh no.
Oh, that was not good.
- Bounced him, man.
- Is he dead?
- I'm sure he's thinking, "I wish I was," right?
But no, he's coming up.
- [Logan] Stay down, man.
- This says something about Cosmo's character, right?
So the guy has a good focus of not giving up
and you'll see that in his character,
as it goes to different fights.
And so something I appreciate about Cosmo.
Fight goes wrong,
doesn't mean don't lose your focus.
Just stay focused and keep moving forward
because you never know.
And that's what he does.
Crazy eye lock, I love it.
Let's do it.
- Boom. - Bam, he cuts.
- All right, so the exchange,
okay, the exchange there.
Nice head kick.
Right now, we know Cosmo as a grappler
but he's striking a lot right now.
What you do see in currently MMA is actually
you have specialists.
So, say, people who've just done grappling for years.
The combat sport has evolved so much now
that grapplers need a certain level of striking.
And so it's actually important to set a certain tone
of striking for a little bit.
And so while you have the guy busy here,
(clapping hand)
then you start changing to grappling.
So we'll see that kick in later on this fight.
Boom, the hair. - Gotta fix the hair.
- Now it's real.
Now it's on. - Don't I know it.
- That's what I do, man.
When I'm in a fight tournament, "All right, let me to just,
let me fix this real quick."
- That's when you know it's real.
(Chad laughs)
The hair fixing.
- Yeah, all right. - There we go.
- Here we go.
He's about to do some epic stuff there
and here we go.
- What's happening? - Denied, all right.
- [Logan] Oh, that's not good.
- Give it a moment, give it a moment.
- That does not look good.
- That's what we call an epic fail.
All right.
- Oh, that doesn't look good.
- [Chad] Now, it's not what you think.
- I think it looks pretty bad.
(Chad laughs)
That's what I think.
- Right, okay, yeah.
It's getting worse. All right, it's-
- Oh, dude, we just ate.
- And it gets better, I promise.
- This gets better?
(Chad laughing)
He's having a really bad day.
- Yeah, I know.
But notice the background's white,
something's happening.
Ref is looking a little trippy right now.
- What's he tripping on?
- Logan, I think he's tripping on technique
- And boom, front triangle.
- Oh, was it a dream sequence?
- Oh, yeah.
And so that's pretty cool how they kind
of capture the feeling of what it's like to be choked out.
Little fun story,
I got choked out twice. - No kidding.
- And so just to kind of run you through that experience,
you actually have a dreamy effect here.
So I remember one of those times
where I'm coming to, I'm like, "Why is this guy in my room?"
(Logan laughs) I've had like a real trip.
And then I'm like, "Oh, I got choked out."
And you kind of start remembering.
So you didn't even know you were in the gym.
Yeah, I mean, I wish I had that feeling, actually,
that looked like more fun,
really, what Dudley was seeing,
but if you look at it,
right here, he charges him, and then he jumps,
and he times it when he extends his arm.
And then really what he thinks he's punching
he really got caught in a, boom, flying triangle.
So actually that's a cool move.
Why don't Logan and myself,
we break that down right now.
Before I go any further,
I'm going to talk to you, the viewer.
For those who've been with us for awhile,
you've seen what this man here,
Logan, has gone through for this show, okay.
Essentially, I'm going to throw my crotch in his face.
So look, not for me,
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- I have nightmares about this.
- All right, so Logan, are you ready for this?
- No. (Chad laughs)
- All right, so as I have Logan grab
my awesome new cool T-shirt here,
we're going to go into this demonstration
of the flying triangle.
Again, Cosmo does it from just jumping.
He times it off a punch.
In any condition, triangles from the bottom
require that the arm and the head
are somewhat leaning over the hips.
So it makes sense on why he would do that,
given how Dudley was leaning with his punch.
From here, Cosmo essentially did this from standing.
And from here, we see his beautiful lockup
holding the wrist
and the hand and applying that squeeze
that was giving Dudley
that trippy effect of being choked out.
Now, this is not wrong.
This is more for breaking the arm, honestly.
What would probably have been better is
if he held the head or shin,
so there's no posture from his opponent.
Now Dudley was also standing.
So you could have had a great opportunity
of just hugging the leg.
And that would have given him a much stronger angle
and a much better choke compared to we did earlier.
But what he did, wasn't totally wrong.
He had a good lock.
He was holding the hand
and you can choke someone with that.
The problem is, again, the opponent can posture,
which can ruin the choke.
So that's one thing I would say
that could've been done better with that triangle.
First, I wanna thank you for recommending this fight scene.
Cosmo is a really cool character.
As you know, he's a jitsu guy
and as someone who's a practitioner of the art,
I really enjoy his work and his fights there.
So what I like, I'd like his striking.
I'd like his setups to what he's doing.
He's striking a lot with Dudley,
trying to kind of create that rhythm,
and then change it with grappling when he can.
I really loved the kani basami,
that's a cool move.
A dangerous one, but a cool one.
And it was cool to see it in anime.
I don't think I've ever seen that
in an anime fight scene yet
because that's the first time I saw it.
Also really enjoy the fight logic on the ground
on his transitioning from the kani basami to mount.
And then of course, very cool flying triangle.
And I really appreciate the effect
that the creators did when being choked out,
as someone who's been there twice,
I saw what they were doing there.
And Cosmo's just grit.
Just ability to just keep on going when things go bad.
It really shows you what's necessary.
What's needed to be a very good fighter
in a very bad situation and not give up.
With all that said, this scene gets an A.
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