How to train against take-downs - Part 1 - Wing Chun, Kung Fu Report - Adam Chan 

Agree - easy to defend a shoot when the person has broken their own posture. A proper shoot by someone who knows how is a totally different beast - I learned that the hard way. If you've only got time for one reaction, you want to make sure it's the one that works against both those who know what they're doing and those who do not. Same goes with all techniques of course - a semi-decent boxers combinations will be a very different beast than someone who has only seen boxing. Ditto with kicks, knees clinching etc. This is the eternal difficulty with difficulty with training against techniques outside your system. So important to do but so hard to do well, unless you are lucky enough to have some decent level practitioners of that attack in your club at the time it's hard to know if you're testing robustly or not. Really respect that thought is being given to takedowns though as it is not something generally considered in most WC clubs I have trained at. An amazing thing would be to get a wrestling coach in to teach the club how to do those takedowns espec. single and double leg. That would pay massive dividends as not only could you test against that technique properly, you would also have a very powerful tool in your arsenal!

Note that both my takedowns and defenses against takedowns are not particularly good, so not saying that the technique shown wouldnt work against a proper shoot, more just thinking about the difficulty of training responses to unfamiliar techniques.

@@michaelmcnamara1839 I wholeheartedly agree. The best way to learn how to defend against something is to learn to do it well. This way you know all the strengths, weaknesses, and contingencies. Interestingly enough, the techniques I learned to defend double and single legs in my traditional martial arts classes are used in UFC and ONE, it's just they've trained it against hundreds of opponents thousands of times giving them a more complete understanding of how they work and what to do when they don't.

TMA's already have knees and wrestling. Chinese wrestling has been around for 3,000 years.

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It's just a drill guys, you saw how hard it was for a beginner to learn this response against take downs. Adam lowered like that to make it easier for his student to understand

@@screamtheguy6425 yes, but even if its a drill. its a drill that will teach u how to get taken down, and possibly quite dangerous if ur in the street. just a crossface will likely not stop anyone that knows how to wrestle even a little bit. There are some stuff that are literally too dangerous to teach (by coaches that do not understand wrestling), just for the reason that they will not work and will put the student learning them in bigger danger.

You clearly have no idea how to perform takedowns in any style

will a punch in the face work against a wrestler?

@@chopsueykungfu no only knives and guns

Right...he should grab the girl and beat the crap out of her to be some 'real world' type of shit.

Says the keyboard warrior

you have zero evidence or reasoning for your delusional assertion. You're just biased pure and simple.

Lol cool story bruh

I looked at your playlist to see where you're coming from, but needn't have as it was always going to be... BJJ. It's so good and generous of you to tell us ignorant simpletons that we're all wrong, and to do so in such a non-judgmental manner as well.