Executing the High Crotch Double Leg Takedown as a way to get your opponent on the ground, is an excellent choice.
One of the things to remember is to have good head positioning, if not, you’ll get caught in a guillotine and put to sleep quick. For those of you who are using this move in MMA or a street fight, your best bet would be to set it up in order to disguise the attack.
You won’t be setting it up with a collar tie like Olympic wrestlers do, because your situation doesn’t call for it. Meaning, you’re not in the sport of wrestling, and you and your opponent are not in the wrestling stance.
In this article you’ll be shown how to secure the high crotch double leg takedown for any situation. So let’s get into it.
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High Crotch Double Let Takedown for Wrestlers
In your wrestling stance, the first thing you want to do is attack the hand and secure wrist control. Then you want to take your free hand and reach for the back of your opponent’s neck securing a collar tie.
Nine times out of ten your opponents first instinct will be to secure a collar tie of his own. The only difference is you have the advantage because you’ve secured wrist control, and have your collar tie on the inside.
The next step is to lift up your elbow that’s securing the collar tie, while simultaneously releasing the grip you have on your opponents wrist.
You then take the hand that had the wrist control and shoot it through the your opponent’s leg; executing what is called your penetration step.
When doing an effective penetration step; you step in, drop your lead knee over your toe, your trail leg will swing up, and you complete the attack on your opponent. In this case it’s the high crotch double leg takedown.
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Now that you have your arm through your opponent’s leg you want to pull and the leg close to you, step up, turn inward, grab both of your opponent’s leg then drive through for the finish.
Some trainers ask me if they need to lift up their opponent while driving through. The answer is no, because it’s simply not needed. Keep the move simple and don’t try to be Hercules.
You can leave the lifting your opponent off his feet for MMA or a street fight. Yes, there are wrestling moves where you can lift and opponent and slam him, but not for this move. It’s not needed.
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What To Remember When Doing This Takedown
The most important thing to remember when doing this type of takedown is positioning. It’s imperative that when you penetrate the leg and have your back hand deep, you need to keep your head up and back straight.
The reason for this is that if you have your back bent and your head low, you can get caught in a guillotine, and a guillotine is a wrestlers worst nightmare.
Are there ways to escape the guillotine? Of course there are, read this The Best Way To Escape A Guillotine scroll to the bottom and read.
The best advice I can give is not to get caught in one in the first place, because although you can escape a guillotine, fighters rarely do, especially if it’s in deep.
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High Crotch Takedown For MMA
As I said earlier, if you want to do this takedown for MMA or the streets you’re going to have to adjust the penetration a bit.
The reason for this is that the mma cage canvas, and the concrete on the street are very solid. Of course, the concrete on the street being harder. You can easily shatter your knee if you drop it down to the ground.
You don’t want to penetrate inward dropping your knee like Olympic wrestlers do. They train and have competition on cushioned matts. On top of that they’re allowed to wear knee pads to cushion dropping their knees for takedown like this.
What you’re going to do is follow the same steps as the high crotch takedown for wrestlers, the only adjustment would be to lunge in on the penetration instead of dropping your knee. That’s it!
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How To Defend Against The High Crotch Double Leg Takedown
Now that you’ve learned how to do the high crotch double leg takedown, I’m going to go through the steps on how you can defend against the move.
If your opponent has penetrated and has secured your leg (deep on a high crotch), the first thing you want to do is take your near had and destroy his head.
Meaning you was to take you hand, create a “v” and place it on the back of his lower head. Then you want to push down and away from you. You then want to curl you leg upward and turn your body away to create a different angle.
You should end up at the side of your opponent. Next you want to use your free hand to secure a belly whizzer, and then knee sprawl down. When you sprawl down you want to start walking your hip until it’s over your opponents head.
Once there you can transition into your next move.
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In conclusion the high crotch double leg takedown is a very effective way to get your opponent on the ground, and follow up with a ground attack of your own.
When doing the high crotch double leg takedown remember to keep your back straight and head up. This is to prevent yourself from getting caught in a guillotine.
When doing the high crotch takedown in MMA or in the streets remember to adjust the move so you’re not slamming your knee onto the concrete.
And lastly, you need to learn how to defend yourself if someone tries the move on you. In wrestling always learn to execute a move on both sides of your opponent. And always learn how to defend yourself against the same move.
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