Awesome video man. I’ve had to watch danahers leg lock instructional twice to really understand some of the leg lock game. But cross Ashi system and reverse Ashi system still confuses me a bit but that’s mostly cause I studied the straight Ashi more so far. I probably would be so confused watching this if I didn’t study it though. I thought the irimi Ashi Garami did have strong finishing power and heel exposure though cause you just have to shift your knees to expose their heel in an irimi and use a sticky hook to control the speed of the back step. It all seems kinda simple in irimi Ashi. But then again I’m injured so not able to roll to test it. I was easily able to get finishes with irimi Ashi before my injury though. I remember danaher said he prefers sticky hook then finishing with outside Ashi. Part 3 sounds great cause all that other stuff with backside and whatnot confuses me soo much more.
Hi EJ and thank you for the comment! The process you are referring to from irimi ashi is super simple but kinda assumes your opponent is naive and not very good at preventing their heel from being exposed. That said you can watch videos of Eddie Cummings doing this to a lot of people back in the day. So yes it is effective but as our opponents get better we have to use our outside leg more and more to get their heel exposed (the extreme of this is the reap or inside ashi as I referred to it in the video.) the trade off is the more we use out outside leg to get exposure the more we allow our opponent the ability to roll. So maybe when you come back you can play with it. See how easy it is to expose someone’s heel from irimi ashi and if you are not able yo get it, how much outside leg pressure do you need to expose their heel. Do you need a full reap? Or can you get away with just a little outside leg pressure by turning your knees? Hope that makes sense and doesn’t just confuse the situation more haha
Nice video man. great stuff. when I was thinking about the hierarchy i was also thinking about some other positions, like backside 5050 and 8020, 9010/ outside sankaku. I think if one views these all as their own "positions" it helps place the positions in a hierarchy and see how one progress the 5050 position. guys that like 5050 seem to still try progressing to those more dominant positions. it seems to me at least now the bottom line is if your outside of their legs, be that an outside sankaku, inside sankaku or the newer criss cross ashi your probably in a great leg entanglement. then between those its preference based or you get real into the weeds. but that's just my thoughts. cant wait to see part 3 man. sidebar: its interesting you have so much on cross ashi. I think of that as just a brief transition to inside sankaku. also im not familiar with inside ashi. looks like its basically an inside sankaku with a reaped knee? looks like your get that from irimi ashi.
Yeah that inside ashi part looked like basically starting from standard ashi and reaping the knee. In some of the clips you're actually forcing the turn with the reap too, but in others...not so much.
Yeah for sure. I will cover a little of the 50/50 transitional stuff in part 3 but I will have a section about inside vs outside sankaku for sure. Its just a lot of stuff to cover. Like we havent even really gotten into the backside variations of all of the entanglements. The cross ashi distinction was basically to say that from cross ashi you have a choice to go to inside sankaku or 50/50. For example, Craig chose 50/50 against Vinny where Gordon chose inside sankaku. The inside ashi is just a fancy name for the standard reap position.
great video. the only critique i have as that it appears you reversed the scoring system from part 1. lmk if im wrong but for back exposure and foot exposure the lower the number the better and for heel exposure and finishing power the lower the number the worse.
Yeah you are correct that is confusing. I was ranking them with the higher number signifying "a lot." So a lot of back exposure "3" is bad but a lot of breaking power "3" is good, but I can see how that is confusing and next time I will do it more by "better or worse." I appreciate the comment and the feedback!
Yeah for sure. In the meantime maybe check out the below if you havent seen it already ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_bnp6KtBuIk.html
