- Welcome back to another episode of
Scenic Fights' Fight Scene Breakdown.
I'm Chad Vázquez.
- I'm Logan Lo.
- And today we have an awesome episode.
We have another anime fight scene breakdown
and not just any anime.
- Okay. - All right
Let me, let me tell you what we are dealing with here
We're dealing with Attack on Titan.
- Oh.
- One of my top five animes ever,
and we're going to breakdown
the fight Scene between
Eren, the main character
versus the Armored Titan.
You guys better be ready cause I am.
- Let's do this. - Yeah. Let's go!
So, that is Eren, boom, clocked.
by Armored Titan.
Armored Titan this guy is strong.
So he,
- Okay.
- He moves Eren very easily
and just launches him with a nice cross of the face.
- Is Eren naked in this?
- They all are.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a
- I was not apprised of this.
- That's actually why I started
watching to tell you the truth
I was like, "Oh, giant naked peoples. Let's do this!"
All right.
So now, Eren is down.
He will come back, give me, give him time.
He always does this.
He always gets beaten up like to a certain extent
and then comes back.
Okay. They're going at it again,
he's pumped up about to go again
and gets clocked again.
Bam. Boom.
And he just poof. That's just a beautiful straight
and back to where he started.
- [Logan] But Eren believes in himself
- [Chad] Oh yeah look! He's going back again
All right. So we go.
[Logan] See tenacity. Tenacity it is very important.
- All right, so here we go.
Third exchange.
Here we go.
Nice boxing stance.
Those exaggerated punch, tries to go for the same cross.
- [Logan] Did he do a slip? No
[Chad] Slip boom [Logan] Oh, he did do a slip!
- [Chad] And catches him into a kata gatame control
and the take down he does is an osoto-gari.
So Eren and the Armored Titan,
they're going at it.
The first exchange we were looking at here is boxing.
Eren,
slips across.
So Logan is going to aim for my neck
and I will perform the slip, that Eren did.
So as they're fighting, there is a slip.
Look at the exposure.
From here Eren got a head-arm control.
So that is how he use boxing and he combined it
into a grappling position. That head and arm control
allowed him to move
to now the first big take down of the fight, the Osoto-Gari.
So Eren gets his head-arm control
and he gets his inside leg
behind.
I think Eren actually went into the far leg.
I won't say that too often.
I think the near leg is a more common one
but just to show you the footwork and how we pick the leg up
For Logan's safety, I'm not going to drop him.
We take this step,
clear,
lift.
And with that, we have the, osoto-gari footwork
and takedown.
After completing the takedown,
Eren maintains that control down to the floor.
That position is referred to as a
Kata Gatame.
It is one of my most favorite positions
to use when I spar.
He didn't use them in the way that is best recommended.
He actually let go, came up
and went to a ground and pound position.
He could have used it to choke someone out
or to attack the Armored Titan
There is a choke there.
Let's break that down and how that looks like.
Okay. So let's look at my position
for the choke.
Knee in.
Other leg is straighten so I'm low.
Now upper body.
I don't want my opponent's arm high, right?
Just above his head.
So from here, if that ever happens
I can always use my hand to push it back in if I need to.
That's important.
Okay. Now ear to ear
elbow far
If I do this, what Logan could do is bridge into me
pull the elbow down and free the arm.
So the outside arm opens up that elbow.
So I have a good base
and he can't roll me over or get out.
Now the choke.
I push my ear into his head
and I pull my right elbow inward for the choke.
Push my head ear to ear and then my right elbow comes in
(Logan coughing)
and that gives me a nice clean blood choke
from that position.
That is a kind of Kata Gatame.
[Chad] All right so now they're down on the ground
with Eren on top.
He's mounting him, pause the video here.
We did a bit of breakdown in our Kengan episode
about mount escapes.
So if you haven't seen that, look back to that video
and I'll go into more detail
about escaping the mount.
All right! So he is just about to punch him.
And now the Armored Titan just rolls him over.
And BOOM! Triangle.
So he cought him during the transition.
All right, it seems like Eren is putting the armbar first
over the choke.
Now the triangle choke position
that we are looking, the general rule is that when
if you are in a position that you have both the option
of a choke and a joint lock, you generally put chokes first
because chokes end fights, right?
If you choke someone out, that's it.
They are not coming back.
The fight is done.
If you break someone's joint
that doesn't guarantee the fight is over.
Someone can keep on going through like this guy.
- Right?
- So, let's go over and break that down
where if you are in a triangle situation
how do you properly do an armbar from there?
Okay. So I'm Eren. I'm mounting the Armored Titan
And the Armored Titan
with its immense strength just pushes Eren right off.
But Eren recovers
into a submission control position, the front triangle.
Okay. Let's look at it.
Logan will start bridging me over.
Right?
And what happens is the Armored Titan he extended his arm
and had one back.
See he's leaning over,
arm extension
one arm is back.
So Eren, gets what seems like a 2-on-1
and brings his knees back
and locks in a front triangle.
Now, as I said earlier,
what's the rule here?
You generally want to put chokes first, if you can.
they end fights, right?
And so it will look quickly like this
based the foot,
change the angle
get a scooped grip, rotate around
and there we have our triangle choke.
(Logan coughing)
But now Eren is here.
We have a situation
in where the Armored Titan is actually posturing up.
And that's a general rule.
I find that if I'm
in this position and my opponent postures up
and I feel like I can't do the choke.
And that's a valid concern.
With posture it does affect the choke.
I would then go for an armbar here
Okay. How to probably do it.
We do want to still cover that shoulder.
That is still important try not to open that up.
So I still keep a triangle.
I won't be so straight on.
I'll try be at an angle.
And now guys, the big detail is
bridging off of my right shoulder.
So as I move the elbow right on top of my hip.
Elbow.
I'm going bring it on top of my hip.
I'm gonna look to my right
and come off my left shoulder and based on my right
that gives me proper breaking power for the submission.
So here we go from here.
So as I look away, I am just gonna, I am gonna
I am going to be safe here and not hold my partner's arm.
Gimme your arm buddy
Ideally that's what I'm looking to do.
Get my hips off the floor and balance on my shoulder here.
So I'm doing these armbars here.
I am bridging towards my partner and it comes on that fast.
Eren was straight on realistically.
You would want to be more to angle and bridge towards them
for better breaking power.
[Logan] He got out.
[Chad] Okay. So now he is switching his legs
- to knock him down.
So now we're into an armbar a juji gatame
and he's ripped the arm right off.
- Oh, that's graphic.
Imagine that is how you die.
You get hit by a flying arm.
- And I can kind of get it cause like,
if he is, if he broke the arm, it is already
kind of dangling.
So he could probably rip it off afterwards.
Okay and now
so Armored Titan is charging
and boom double leg right to the wall.
Another takedown
that you will see quite often throughout this fight
attempted by the Armored Titan is the double leg takedown .
Key details now.
Head very tight to the hip with good posture please
downward head will lead into
a technique we will breakdown later
which is the guillotine.
(fingers clicking)
Hands
behind the knee,
curving the wrist.
And our main goal if we can,
in a perfect scenario
will be really to lift
and dump a guy to the side.
Not necessarily going into his legs because of threats
that we are aware of.
- Right?
- So a little example here, level change.
There is a gap here.
So I will drop my knee.
Okay. From here I lift and now I can get him down
and clear his legs.
Ideally, that's a better case where we take the guy down
and we try to move around the legs
to a top position, not within the guard.
- And BOOM! An Irimi Ashi Garami
Let's let's pause there.
Let's give a hand for Eren. Let's give a hand for Eren.
- Alright - I appreciate that.
All right so we have an irimi ashi garami.
That was dope.
Let's see how you use it before I say anything else.
Okay. And so he goes to double trouble
and the knock down.
Let's-
a lot happened there.
Let's break that down.
I appreciate the technique,
but there's also some other cool options
that could have been done.
Let's get into it.
Eren is on his back.
He is getting attacked by the Armored Titan
and to protect himself, he creates a leg entanglement.
That's what ashi garami refers to.
It's just a generic term that refers to leg entanglement.
Here we are.
An irimi ashi garami
from here this is also referred to
as a single x-guard from other schools.
As Eren has this position
the Armored Titan is just throwing punches
and Eren is slipping.
Here is the problem for my attacker to reach my face.
If he Is taller than me, maybe he hit me
but ideally he has to remove my legs.
From here, what Logan wants to do is push this off
and pull my knee open
Now with this position
he could
start attacking
or maybe perform a back step over my foot
which allows me to clear my legs and continue to attack.
That's ideally
what the Armored Titan wants to do.
Instead of just punching.
But Eren does a pretty good sweep here using a concept
called double trouble.
Let's go into that and I'll explain what that means.
Eren is being attacked
so he starts moving to a new position with his legs to sweep
He gets an Achilles grip.
The top leg goes underneath as a hook
and the bottom leg hooks the far knee.
Achilles grip
So what Eren does, he repositions his legs like so.
Inside hook and then the far hook on the far knee.
And with this hand, he, does something
very, very, very important.
He grabs the other ankle.
This is good.
This is an example of a concept called double trouble
where you control both legs.
From here the chance of him knocking down his opponent
is very high
which we'll demonstrate right now.
And so very slowly, I'll knock down Logan
how Eren knocked down the Armored Titan.
Once that collapse happens, he creates a two base here
one with his left leg, his right hand, and starts coming up
to a stand up to disengage with the Armored Titan.
I think there's a better strategy
he could have used from here.
Let's go over a very simple example of another thing
that could be done from that irimi ashi garami position.
There's a lot you can do.
I'll give you a very basic dilemma.
He could have threaten a sweep.
With this really basic ashi garami sweep here.
I'll make sure that my far leg, my inside leg
hooks the far hamstring.
I now hip up and twist my knee outward
in the direction where I want my opponent wants to fall
We will do this very slowly.
Here we go.
I hip up and I twist and we want that collapse.
This allows me to go into certain leg attacks,
or simply
standing up to start attacking him
from a top position.
But then here's the problem.
Logan is going to adapt.
So now I have a second move to
to make sure he doesn't hurt me.
Here's the second move.
If Eren chose this strategy
the Armored Titan would have to stop himself
from getting put to the floor.
So to do that
he would have to squat down
and lean his heading in this direction.
And now let's do a quick test here.
Imma very lightly try and knock Logan down.
You'll see how much harder it is for me.
Yes. I can feel the weight.
I can't, I can't make it.
So I will now threaten with the leglock.
With my legs here I can start bringing them over
and threatening a heel hook by creating his triangle here.
Now Logan is really in a bad situation.
If he wants to get out,
he can't just pulls it out right away
because I have his knee controlled.
From here, one thing that Logan will do
especially once he start feeling me
put pressure on his ankle
is he will start rolling
and I will roll with him.
When we are done
I'll land in an outside ashi garami position.
With this control I have much stronger breaking power.
It's difficult for Logan to unlock my legs, to get out.
And if he wants to spin again, it's hard.
Let's show you how we finished the leg lock
or rather the heel hook
from this outside ashi garami position.
From here, everyone, we have a proper lock.
We start putting the heel to the floor,
but we stand on our arm.
Now I can use my crossed legs
to hook behind Logan's back
and pull myself closer to him.
The closer my hips are to his hips,
the better control and breaking power I have.
Now, I go downward elbow, downward thigh, downward chin.
And when I pull the heel up
I push my hips forward into his knee.
And just like that we have breaking power
onto the ankle and most importantly the knee.
This is a, a much better, safer dilemma
that Eren could have done from that ashi garami position
where he would have threatened the Armored Titan
took him down on the floor under much better terms.
And most importantly, not get punched in the face.
And so now he gets a headarm control
Boom! and a guillotine
Establishing a close guard.
- Cause usually when I get my arm ripped off
I am pretty much done for that day.
- I agree. Yeah.
But not this guy.
All right! So now there's an arm guillotine in close guard
And he's trying to choke him
and you see the arm just breaking
based on how much he's bending his neck.
- Eww
- And that's yeah-
so far on the ground it's all been jitsu.
Awesome!
All right.
So here we are. We are now into
the final exchange between Eren and the Armored Titan.
You can see the Armored Titan keeps charging Eren.
I mean the guy has no arm and he's trying to pin him down
and get him to the floor.
So this best he can do.
He's kind of punching, but a lot of tackling
and this opens up a beautiful opportunity
for Eren to get a head-arm control
and then once getting his legs involved,
turning it into a guillotine position.
From here
Eren now gets his legs involved
and turns this situation to a closed guard
and he lands right here.
We can see Eren is trying to pull back.
and squeeze
and he's very flat on
These are two issues
On what he's trying to achieve from that position
So let's go over how we properly finished that choke
if we land in the way that Eren did.
First, my positioning.
When I land this in a close guard
with the guillotine control
I want to be a bit of an angle.
So you will see this by where my feet lock.
As I fall
And from here, I actually lock my feet on the far hip.
Do you see the angle that I'm in?
This allows me to put downward pressure on the neck
and gives me extra space to go into my choke.
So the first part I want to comment on is my positioning.
I am at an angle you can see because I am crossing my feet
by the far hip where Eren was more flat on the lower back.
That's one major difference.
Now the choke itself.
I am trying to get my hand as high as I can
like so
to the other side of the neck.
Furthermore, it's important for me to move my head
to the other shoulder in order to do this.
If my head stays on, on this line.
I can't have access as much as possible
but if I move my head over
I can better move my arm into the other carotid.
That's what I'm going be doing with my hands
when I lock up the choke
and now let's go into the squeeze
how we actually finish the choke.
Eren's connection.
We understand now how we want to land.
We are going to land at an angle.
And now as I pull the legs towards me
I push my hand inward into the neck.
And like that we have a nice clean choke
from the arm in guillotine position.
I really enjoyed this fight.
My favorite
was the use of ashi garami as a knockdown.
I got to give credit to the creators of this show
because you really have to understand what's going on
with grappling and jitsu
to appreciate how the control is established
and how the feet were used to knock someone down.
I could see that there's definitely a lot of research done
from that fight scene.
Overall,
I enjoyed it and I am going to give this fight scene
an A.
All right guys, peace.