Do you remember that time we saw that dude get run over by a car?
[deep inhale]
This is gonna hurt like that.
I'm not going in there!
Come on. Come on.
[laughter]
[Brian's voice echos in the distance] ♪ MODERN ROGUE! ♪
[synthetic robot voice] Wristlock Takedown
All right, back again with coaches Mikal, Luke, and Ty.
Am I correct in understanding we're going to learn not one but two moves:
a wristlock and a takedown? >> That's correct.
This is going to be a two-fer. I love deals.
Okay, oh so it's a bargain?
It is a bargain. Let's talk about wristlocks.
This is a technique, and I want you to feel it first, right?
And I'm going to perform the first technique on one of our coaches.
Okay.
>> Mikal: All right, then were're going to go from there. >> Jason (whispering): It hurts!
This technique is actually a technique that I used often when bouncing and things like that,
in order to get somebody out without-- and I have taught the same technique to like law enforcement.
So somebody's all drunk and be like,
[affected drunk southern accent] "Nah I don't have to get out. You had too much!"
>> Mikal: Just shoot in from the side. >> Brian: Oh jeez. Oh jeez!
>> Jason: Tap dude. Tap! >> Brian: Thank you, thank you.
[laughter]
Boy, you do--you get panicked-
Do you need a designated tapper?
You're like, "I said, 'oh jeez' twice!"
So I'm not trained to let go on "oh jeez."
Okay, all right.
I could think that maybe you were like, "Oh jeez, this is well place technique"
Yeah, I-no, I meant you guys are "OGs,"
you're original gangsters. >> [stammering] Okay.
All right, sorry. >> Okay, thanks Fox News.
[laughter] Okay.
All right, so here we are.
I go right in. >> Okay.
Boom! Now, what makes this wristlock work,
right? Is me applying pressure, your elbow falling into this pocket.
>> Brian: Yep. >> Mikal: And normally it's like a--like a finger trap
when somebody tries to- >> Brian: Oh, oh, the more I move the more it hurts!
That's amazing! Wow!
And all I have to do is kind of just let you
move and just move with you.
Yeah, so I'm struggling and every time it's just ratcheting in.
Yeah, just like a boa constrictor or a snake or something like that.
>> Yeah, yeah. >> Right? It gets tighter, the prey moves around.
>> That's brilliant. >> And then it just takes up the space.
Because the first thing I feel is panic where it's like I feel constricted and so
but everything I do is just going to make it worse.
Now, are you ready for this really interesting piece? >> Yes.
I want you to do me a favor. >> Okay-yes...
I'm gonna turn it off a little bit. >> Yep, yep.
And I want you to high-five my hand.
[in agony] Oh-kay!
Tap tap tap tap. [laughter] >> All right, cool.
It's really difficult for you to hit me. >> Oh, got it. Yeah so if I--Okay all right.
So if you wanted to throw a punch? >> Yep. Yep, yep yep.
I'm gonna need a gif of this, by the way.
[through diminishing laughter] It hurts really bad.
So, that being said, let's give your wrist the break for a second.
Okay, yeah.
>> Brian: Yeaahh! [laughter]
Hi! >> How's it going?
Okay, that was forceful.
So in this situation, a lot of times we would just walk up next to the person, "Hey!" Bing.
Oh!
Well, and that's so sneaky because you're approaching
in such a chummy way that if I'm drunk and belligerent
and shouting stuff that doesn't belong in the bar, you can do that move and I will not realize it until it's too late.
Absolutely, and then we can just walk the person away.
>> Jason: Yep, not happening. Yeah.
Excellent. You can take them right out,
you can bring the arm behind them, right?
You can trip and take them down.
One of my favorite options has to do with this exact same concept, even if we're facing forward.
Whoa.
Boom. Here's my wristlock.
I bring that down back behind him,
and because this arm is not easily going to be able to attack me,
I extend this other leg in front and then I bring my-- >> Brian: Oh my goodness.
And now he's down. None of these punches are really going to do very much to me.
But now--Bing! And I'm in a good space. Right?
>> Brian: Wow. Super effective!
>> Brian: So I understand, you know, this and pinched in and locked in,
but then when you move it around, is there any trick to keeping this pinned in the back?
M-hm. Yes. Positive thinking.
[laughter]
Basically, basically you've got all the leverage and he's got none.
Well I want you to think about something. >> Brian: Yeah.
>> Put your arm back behind you. >> Yup, yup.
>> I want you to slide it back forward.
>> Okay, okay, yeah.
No, this is extremely difficult, and you're not using much force at all. Okay.
>> Mikal: I'm not really at all. >> Brian: Okay, point taken.
>> All right, does that make sense? >> Yeah.
So the concept in Jujitsu largely,
if you want to beat somebody who's bigger, faster, stronger, and more athletic
>> Brian: Yep. ...and sometimes better-looking, right?
[laughter] Sometimes.
You're basically just going to crush their self-esteem.
[laughter] >> Mikal: Exactly.
In order to do that, you have to use leverage, right?
And there are positions with people's bodies
where you can put them where they physically are not able to move very well.
And I know, there's always some joker out there that says, "Well I'm big, strong, and bad!"
or, you know, "I'm fat and inexperienced." >> Right.
>> All right. And both of those people usually think, "I know what I'm talking about".
>> Brian: Right. >> And you don't.
"Fat and inexperienced," that's the top of my CV from my résumé.
Can you show me the takedown that you did?
>> Mikal: All right, so, here we are.
Once I'm here inside this position, I'm just gonna slide it back.
Okay now, real quick. Let me just take a moment to just see--there's nothing I could do,
and if I hit, it's not going to do anything.
>> Mikal: No, there's nothing. >> Boy, this really is already checkmate,
and it's just not fully realized yet.
>> Mikal: Keep moving it. >> Brian: Okay.
[Brian stuggles] Look, there's no fingers. I don't even have fingers closed around you.
So it se--it feels like--no if I go down,
>> Brian: and I can't go up. >> Mikal: Nope. That's my pinky finger.
All right, all right. I'm very weak, I understand.
So this is a really important concept to go over. Right? It's not that you're weak.
It's that we as humans have... limitations
and like a framework that we have to wrap ourselves around.
And what that means for a fighter, or for a layperson, or someone who is not the largest, fastest,
most athletic person is, "Oh my gosh. I can win against somebody who's a lot larger than me, using science?"
"Oh my gosh, that's really freeing."
Right? And I think that's honestly part of what gets me
so amped up about coaching
right? And helping those people,
my nerd people, my nerd friends. >> Yeah, yep yep.
Realize that, they can take down a guy who's 6'5" and has been an athlete his entire life,
and they can strangle him unconscious, and there's nothing he can do about it.
>> Does that make sense? >> Yeah, oh 100 percent.
Now I want you to take me down!
>> Show me! >> So here we are. Boom!
>> Brian: Okay. Yep, yep, yep. >> Mikal: Right? Now I send an outside trip
and I bring my knee to the ground and my hips forward.
>> Brian: Okay. Oh wow! Okay--oh, wow, wow my leg.
>> Jason: Don't forget to tap. >> Oh! Yeah yeah. Okay.
The brilliant part is, it went down and I thought, "Well won't that hurt you?"
and then I realized I'm breaking your fall.
And you're breaking me. >> Mikal: You are.
And if you think about it. What's hurting right now? >> Uh, my knee.
>> Your knee? >> Yeah.
That's because me sinking my hips in and the way I've set it right now, it creates a kneebar
which breaks your knee when we fall. >> Wow!
So wrist's broken, you fell down, and then your knee was broken.
>> And then, yeah. And so,
I guess all of this is predicated on the fact that if you're fighting, you're fighting for keeps
and you should have no hesitation about snapping wrists or legs or whatever.
No, I tell my friends this same concept. When I teach women's self-defense,
they're like, "I don't want to, I don't want to hurt him."
And I'm like, well in these kind of situation you have to think about your own family and friends
and make sure that you get home safely
which is what we care about. You're not the aggressor in this situation,
but, I mean you do deserve to be able to control your own space, and you do deserve to be able to live.
>> Okay, no that totally makes sense. >> Mikal: So, when you frame that that way,
um, I mean you have to make a decision.
There really is--almost like a consent given
when somebody attacks you, they are saying
anything you do at this point is fair game in hand-to-hand combat.
Absolutely. >> Brian: Yeah, wow.
All right. I want to learn that takedown.
>> Jason: No such thing is a fair fight. There's always somebody bigger, or stronger, or faster, or smarter.
>> Mikal: Yes. So I'm going to show this technique on coach Ty,
and then you guys going to perform the same technique in just a minute,
and that's your challenge. >> Roger.
>> All right, excellent. So here we are.
I'm going to sink my arm back. Notice when I grab his wrist
it's my two fingers, this is "live long and prosper" there.
>> Brian: Right. >> Mikal: All right?
Boom! And his knuckles fit right there. >> Brian: Got it.
All right, that's a cool little trick. >> Tap!
Boom! And that's how you break the wrist.
You can use two hands if you have to,
but you don't normally have to, all right?
So now that I've gotten the first half, I'm going to bring his hand behind his back,
I'm going to step on the other side
and I'm going to bring my knee down, and I'm going to bring my hip forward.
Like you're doing that, that weird, old gym coach move. [Jason and Brian laugh]
>> Mikal: All right?
That's pretty much what you are going to be doing. >> Brian: But you make it look good!
[talking over each other] >> Mikal: Absolutely I do. >> Brian: That's the unfair thing.
That's how I walk up into a club. I don't know what you're doing.
I believe it.
>> Jason: Wearing my nylon shorts.
>> Mikal: Absolutely. >> Like right here, the weave.
With a little "v" right there. Absolutely a high, high socks.
>> Jason: Yep. >> Mikal: Right, so here we are. Boom!
Right? And then my hips come forward.
>> Brian: And you're just rolling forward on him?
>> Mikal: Absolutely, and he breaks my fall.
Now this is a little more advanced of a technique than we went over today,
but how do we break his knee from this position, all has to do with you setting it up correctly.
Creating what's called a kneebar.
Thank you, coach Ty. >> Brian: But essentially you're just
bending the knee the wrong direction as it's wrapped around?
Man, you just nailed it on the head. Armbar is just bending his arm in the wrong direction,
kneebar is just bending his knee in the wrong direction.
>> Jason: I went for a good chunk of my life
thinking of the Steven Seagal,
"This is all it takes, right here"
to break the arm at the elbow. Is that correct?
There-there's more to it than that. >> Jason: Yeah, okay.
Don't you say the "s" word in my house.
[dismissively] >> Mikal: Steven Seagal.
When's the last time you saw an aikido master
become a UFC or Strikeforce or WEC
or ONE Fight Championship, fight champion.
Uh, never.
[whisper] Never.
>> Jason: I almost wore my aikido pants from my Halloween costume from four years ago.
I'm almost wore those!
>> I would say that a thing to consider
when you're looking at, like, techniques online and all that kind of stuff is
and styles is like, we have this really great forum
to be able to find out if these techniques really work in a real fight situation,
right? And it was invented through MMA.
That's why you never see much to my disappointment,
"We've got someone in the cage who's doing drunken master style!"
Yeah, dude. All right. What are we doing?
Let's do the technique right now.
We're going to wristlock, they're going to tap. >> Brian: Okay.
And then you're going to migrate it behind the back, then you're gonna perform a takedown.
Okay. So when we're here--here, if you don't mind
so I'm here, let's say, right?
>> Mikal: "Live long and prosper."
>> Oh, yep. There you go.
On the knuckle, and so then I get him to back here.
>> Mikal: Yes. >> Brian: And then, uh, and then what?
>> Nope, you're going to face him with your hips. >> Oh, face with my hips.
>> Yes. >> Got it.
>> Bring this leg out. >> Okay.
>> Whoa, whoa, no, no.
>> Brian: Oh, no? >> Mikal: This leg back, the other leg forward.
And you want your heel to be on the other side.
>> Okay. >> Ah, yeah, there you go.
That's right, now bring that lead knee to the ground and your hips follow.
Bring your knee to the ground.
>> Brian: Oh, wait. Like, oh! That's right, I fall forward on him.
>> Mikal: Yep, that's right, otherwise he falls on you.
>> Let me try that again. Okay, so again, in like this, "live long and prosper."
>> Get the tap first.
>> Uh, yeah, yeah, okay. Got it.
And then come around to the back. Face him. >> Mikal: Face him, knees forward, hips forward.
>> Brian: Okay, and then just forward like this? >> Mikal: Yes, that's it. That's it!
>> Brian: There we go. Oh my goodness!
Hi, how are you?
>> Mikal: Very good. >> Jason: You were on top and yet you tapped out.
>> Brian: I was consoling him. That was a consolatory tap, like we're still friends, right?
>> Mikal: How did that feel? >> Great. Let me try it one more time.
>> No no. We DO it one more time.
Oh. Let me DO it one more time.
>> Yes. >> Got it. Okay, so I come in...
grab this like that, and then pull 'til tap,
come around like this.
>> Mikal: Yes, hips forward.
Yes, that's it. >> Dude, that was great!
>> Mikal: How does that feel? >> Brian: That was awesome.
>> Doesn't that feel gnarly? >> Yeah, no, it was badass.
It is astonishing like they are just your puppet to be cajoled around and then you fall on them.
You're gonna love this dude. You're gonna love it.
All right, same thing. You can use coach Ty.
All right, boom! >> Here and...
>> Mikal: Yes! >> The spocker?
>> Yes, haha.
>> Right there. >> Brian: And then get a tap.
>> Mikal: You get the tap. >> Ty: Tap!
>> There you go. Bring it in, and then you start to face him,
and your lead leg.
>> Jason: Oh yeah, lead leg here.
>> Mikal: Hey! There you go.
Now bring your knee down. >> What do I do with this hand?
>> Don't, uh, don't get hit.
[Mikal laughs] >> Oh, okay. Right.
>> And now bring your knee and hips forward. >> Okay.
>> Brian: You're just going to roll it forward.
>> Mikal: There you go, that's it. Let's do it again.
>> Brian: Dude! Jason! I want you to do this with such precision,
like, I want you to Iron Fist it.
This is your Iron Fist moment. >> Stop baiting me with that.
>> Come on. No, you just own it.
This is a piece of cordwood.
>> Ty: Tap! >> Jason: Okay.
>> Jason: Face him. >> Mikal: Face him, bend your knees. Bend your knees.
Bend that knee. >> Brian: Roll it.
>> Jason: And like that. >> Mikal: Hips forward.
Yes, that's it! Nice! How did that feel? >> Felt great!
Now that we have this technique, what are the most likely times that we're going to use it?
We talked about disarming and disabling some kind of drunk person or whatever.
So I need to borrow coach Luke for a second. Most likely times you're going to utilize this is in a
situation where you're, either somebody is facing you and you're concerned about them attacking you.
They could be drunk, and a lot of times that first hand that they're going to come to try to get you with
is going to be the lead hand. So when I bring this through, throw him.
>> Brian: Dude, that is extraordinary. Like you just feel,
you start balanced. >> Jason: You feel in control.
Yeah, it's--and it is this like switch flips.
It's like you go from feeling like everything's balanced and then suddenly it's like,
"No no. I am owning this whole situation."
>> Mikal: All right, let's see. Who's first?
>> Jason: I'll go first. >> Brian: Okay. All right, so you're going to get me first?
All right, so... >> Spocker!
>> Not feeling it yet. >> No?
>> No not feel--okay feeling it, feeling it. Okay, got it.
>> Jason: Like that. >> Okay, yep, yep.
>> And then this...
>> I'm like. "Hey! Hey, ya big dumb dummy." >> And we're falling!
>> Brian: Yeah, I think I'd be a little bit screwed in that situation.
All right. So you're here, so I'm gonna get you...
BAM!
You have failed.
>> So I come in. I'm gonna grab the... >> Mikal: Here let's--do you mind?
>> Brian: Yeah, please! >> Mikal: I want him to try to do that "Bam!" thing again,
and this time--no, no, don't block--just turn it on.
[sharp wince] Ho!
>> Mikal: Does that make sense? >>> Both: Yeah.
>> Mikal: So try to put your hand up and tell him to high-five you.
>> High-five me!
Oop! Yep, nope.
Not happening. >> Brian: It is a switch!
You just flip a switch off and on man.
>> Jason: Yeah, I mean, look at that! >> Brian: Like, like here we go. One more time.
Ah!
Okay, so that's it right? All right, so then we get here,
and get here, and I'll lead you in here like this.
>> Brian: Like that? >> Mikal: Yes.
Worst thing about that was the mic pack. >> Brian: Oooohhh! Whoopsie!
>> Mikal: Nice guys! >> Brian: Oh, dude. Well done. Dude, that was great.
>> Jason: Thank you so much again, guys. This was amazing.
It was really exciting. Thank you, sir.
>> Brian: Good job. Good job. Good job. Good game. Good game.
>>> Brian and Jason: Good game. Good game.
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