Reading some of these negative comments makes it clear that the 'commentors' do not have Craigs knowledge or experience. I've had three of his classes. You will get to test yourself full speed against fully resisting opponents.
I love the firemans carry... if done properly, it looks like a baseball player sliding home. And you're opponent get flipped over ... or the duck under while pulling his neck down during transition, leaving him on his knees. Great job! I know I'm talking advanced wrestling, but it works.
People will often go for their weapon too soon vs securing a position/control first. Effectively making the transition to a weapon or flat out escape, possibly more dangerous. Great stuff.
People are talking about this being a “practiced dance” and that it should be “chaotic” if you’ve ever done jiu jitsu or a combat sport or train at all or have even been in a bad situation, you would know that when you train you start off the drill slow and deliberate to get the feel for the details and to ingrain proper mechanics & try to perfect the technique and commit it all to muscle memory. The truth is that yes fights are chaotic and no matter how much you train you will be sloppy and half ass it and a lot will go out of the window. However, training deliberately and including the evolutions he does allows you to perform the best sloppy technique that you can under stress. When you are in a fight for your life you will get cut and or stabbed, hurt or shot and both of you may die but in those kinds of situations where you have no choice but to use deadly force god forbid, say you’re with your family, I’d rather at worse that I take the bad guy with me than leave him alive and alone with my family. You are always gonna suck when it’s all on the line but train to suck as little as possible.
Craig you are an absolute badass. Love these videos. Would like to see more conversation about head position in this video. Using your head to manipulate the other persons head position and ability to see what’s going on I have found to be incredibly valuable in a clinch. Maybe because I’m short! Haha. But if you can get your head under their chin and point their eyes away from the fight. Push their chin up and manipulate their balance a little. It goes a long way with your ability to control and change positions. If you want a good boxing example GGG Gennady Golovkin uses head position superbly and many BJJ fighters use the same technique on the ground.
Craig I would go to a 2 on 1 from the armdrag because it has a higher success rate with more experienced opponents. Also if it is weapons based I like to do a throw by from the undertook to clear them and transition to my weapon.
Havoc Industries Belt Buckle Derringer.. how in the clinch it is over for him (or her, I mostly fight hers.) I have two 22 magnums that are perpetually point wherever my belly button directs, or the direction of my weener except it does't veer left. In a hot and heavy hug I can trigger 2 bullets to fire from my belt... but what if my hands can't reach? What if they have both my hands. The trigger isn t for the finger. Doctors always told mr I had an "Elvis Pelvis." Not very remarkable but it is when your pelvis grew extra long. Elvis could shake his hips only because of this.Shakira... you think she can puppeteer that olive on a toothpick w/o good genetics. All to say is my pelvic floor is superior to yours, 99th percentile. All I must do is a single kegle one bullet flies. Can double tap. The belt buckle gun is electronically fired.... the wire which tells the hammer to fall runs up into my bum. This tech is state of the art. IMAGINE UNLOADING A BARRAGE WITH A SINGLE FART?! Havoc Industries sells the Butt Belt Buckle Gun. 23 marks plus tax. Or 3 non falsified uncut Russian Rubies approx a 22 bullet in size. You can use those as bullets too. Couples combo has you save money, your lady should be rigged up at all times... just make sure it is never used in zero gravity or mid flight. HK wants the buy this patent.
When you spend your life doing dangerous things, dangerous things tend to happen to you. That's why most lions you see in the wild are scarred up. But they survived.
Very, very basic stuff. Everyone should know this. Does it always work? Hell No! Nothing does. Should you go for a weapon if it does work? That is a Legal question.
Some one is going to pop up or drag Winston Caesar's arm and then control him in a real fight? Good look with that. Grappling is over-rated for self-defence. Wrestling somebody much bigger and stronger is a good way to get stuck in a bad place.
@@Combatinho learn to generate power and damage in very short range (internal arts) and train to avoid grappling. If you do move them it has to be explosively taking their balance and/or ripping his body apart e.g. snap his arm. Very hard to do on a gorilla build opponent so the focus should be on evasion and attacking the primary targets (eyes n throat).
@@danielskipp1 Internal arts.... train to avoid grappling.... really. Those techs he is showing work. Works on big guys little guys, you name it. You have to practice and make it muscle memory. Ripping a body apart...snapping arms....movie stuff.
He’s demonstrating very basic foundational move for THE VIEWERS. He has a ton of videos showing him and students doing this at full speed. Even the most skilled fighter isn’t gonna be imitating Liam Neeson in a real fight.
Those numbers for going to the ground are way off. The only increase realistically is due to the increase in Bjj and wrestling that cause ground fighting. 40 years as a soldier, Deputy Sheriff, Martial Artist and Security trainer does not support these stats. Nor from the folks I have worked or trained with.
And the first few UFC's ended the myth about kung fu/karate etc.... we now KNOW that getting taken down and your butt handed to you on the ground is what happens if you don't know how to grapple/wrestle. Is it applicable...yeap. Does it have weaknesses. Yeap. But the weaknesses are far less than any other fighting style. And those stats are supported. Show me where they are not. All you have to do, is google police fights and see what happens to us as police when we encounter a human that is not resisting, but actually fighting with us...where does the fight end up....on the ground. But you can leave that lapse in your arsenal if you like, nobody else should. Train train train.
@@darylc2799 Most fights are just a few punches land and don't go to the ground. If you want the fight to go to the ground, judo is better than BJJ to get it there. In the UFC once people learned basic submission defense, the Gracies became a non-factor.
I agree Wes and I have been teaching/training BJJ for twenty years. Its hard to say what the statistic is, but I will say that if that fight leads to a clinch the BJJ guy or grappler will have the clear advantage.
Ok I'm sorry but I see these types of videos endlessly on RU-vid Everything looks so easy and smooth doesn't it? The opponent just stands there and takes direction and is passive and compliant and follows the dance as instructed If im in a fight it's because someone is trying to kill me and I have been cornered and can't avoid the situation There is no way in hell the attacker is gonna stand there and let me do my little dance move on him and let me get behind him This is such fantasy bull crap Sure in wrestling the opponent isn't hitting you in the head with a pipe or trying to stab you in your guts so this may work Try giving your dance partner the freedom to move and resist and attack and see how well you do with your Roman wrestling moves Sorry but this is local karate dojo fantasy land
No, the duck under and arm drag are highly effective against a skilled opponent. You'd have to view both techniques by practitioners of folk, free style, and Greco-Roman wrestling as well as mixed martial arts to pick up the fine points. In reality, only a total novice is going to spin completely around from an arm drag and give up his back. It's like you said, he's going to correct his mistake asap. Even so, it's served its purpose by clearing the arm (It's often used allow a leg takedown) and setting up a punch (which he'll probably run right into since he's correcting/spinning back into position) or allowing you that second you need to step away/make distance. Oh, the arm drag also works great on a hysterical gf. She will spin 180 degrees or more. At her butt comes into view, you drop and shoot the right arm between her legs, clamp the upper body with your left, then just stand up, gently holding the hissing, spitting, shrieking creature with all her bitey, scratchy bits pointed away from you. If she's a...a large woman, be sure to bend those knees and lift with the legs. In my experience, they calm quickly at that point.
That’s why Craig is talking about controlling the other guy’s arms and wrists: So you don’t get punched in the face. Also when it’s this close, the punches don’t hurt as much. With knives...you’re going to get cut no matter what, but if you control his arms and get behind him it can buy you time to run away or strike.
Its a fight nothing is guaranteed. You got to train. And it can and does surprise people who are not expecting an arm drag. If you're expecting it, sure it takes way more skill. What else are you going to do? Feel sorry about nothing works?
