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No Holds Barred Fighting - Mark Hatmaker
Introduction
Numbers for consideration.
Ninety percent of fights end up on the ground.
And 99.9 percent start standing up (I would say 100 percent, but I’ve seen more than a few JJ matches in which at least one of the participants starts on his butt).
Eighty-five percent of freestyle wrestling victories can be predicted based upon who scores the first takedown.
The stats bear out the fact that the takedown is an integral part of the game, whether it be NHB, submission wrestling, straight wrestling, jiujitsu or even street defense. The takedown is the key transitional skill between the striking and ground games.
Some people call it bridging the gap. Others call it closing the gap. I’ve heard one coach refer to it as the six feet of hell between you and your opponent.
In this guide, we call takedowns by the old-school term, shooting,
and individual takedowns, shots.
I stick with the old-school terminology for two reasons:
My background is old school, so it’s props to the lineage, if you will.
To my mind, shooting is the perfect metaphor for capturing the skill set necessary to create a good takedown artist — a real sharp shooter.
A sharp shooter realizes that the takedown is not a haphazard grab at his opponent’s legs or a fumbling grasp for a quasi-hug/body lock. A sharp shooter realizes, just as his firearms compatriot, that good shooting is about range, target acquisition, muzzle velocity, and, in the case of game shooting, selecting the right caliber weapon for the particular species to be brought down. This book allows you to take the shooting metaphor and build and hone each of the skills to their optimum. Let’s load up.
Shot selection
As with all my guides, the shots presented here are not all the possible shots by any stretch of the imagination. Several more volumes would not exhaust the material. I have selected high percentage weapons, run them through common variations that you may encounter in the real-life feedback loop of the fight, and then turned the game around to present intelligent counters to the shots provided.
The takedowns have been culled from several wrestling systems, and all are natural-handle dependent. That means no takedown is an adaptation of a gi or jacketed throwing arts curriculum. The jacketed arts have excellent arsenals of throwing techniques, but the focus on the cloth handle provides a limited transfer to the zero cloth handles of NHB or the flimsy material of street clothing. By limiting all handles to those that are provided by the human body — wrists, neck, upper arms, crotch and so on — we are able to transfer our shooting arsenal to all takedown scenarios, jacketed arts included. The same cannot be said of takedown approaches where the cloth handle is a generous portion of the art.
Most shots featured here are high percentage — the likelihood of using them or being confronted with them is high. But there are smatterings of lower percentage shots that are very effective yet used less frequently because of general unfamiliarity or poor application. This manual will show you how to slip these nasty little surprises into your game with ease.
Clinch work
The clinch. It’s an inevitable event at some point in most fights. The ins and outs of clinching deserve detailed coverage. So, out of respect for this formidable aspect of the game we have culled all clinch work from this volume. We will cover that in depth in a separate book — strategy, theory, striking, takedown offense and defense.
Never fear. You are on the right progressive path because you cannot clinch if you cannot shoot. Shoot well and you may bypass the clinch. If you do not — we’ve got you covered.
Staying on your feet
There is a clear division in the combat arts between strikers and grapplers. This division has grown narrower, but one that needs to be crossed nevertheless. Some adherents of the striking arts have little to zero desire to become master grapplers. Does this mean they have chosen imprudently?
Not necessarily. If a striker eschews all grappling and takedown work and persists in pursuing MMA, a rude awakening is in store. But the MMA striker can make the striking game his mainstay if he adds razor sharp countershooting to his arsenal. With that goal in mind,