1/16/2024 0 Comments Judo leg sweep gifI’ve provided an animated GIF of two-time NCAA Division I champion and Olympic hopeful Jordan Oliver practicing this same technique in the Oklahoma State wrestling room. Henderson drives in so his opponent cannot pop back up, and Thomson reverts to guard. Henderson gets his hips back, positioned to drive into his opponent when Thomson falls to his hip.ħ and 8. Henderson helps the process by pushing into Thomson’s side with the overhook arm.Ħ. Thompson’s center of gravity passes overtop of Henderson’s foot, and Thomson now cannot take a step with his left foot to support himself.ĥ. With his foot now holding Thomson’s foot off the ground, Henderson continues to twist Thomson clockwise while lifting Thomson’s shoulder with a deep overhook. Just as Thomson takes the weight off his left foot, Henderson must place the arch of his foot in the crook between Thomson’s ankle shin and foot.Ĥ. He has to induce Thomson to take a clockwise step. Henderson pulls hard on the lat and lifts his right foot. This is necessary because he must turn his body on a vertical axis.ģ. Henderson’s posture has gone from hunched over to upright. He also begins to pull Thomson to the right with his grip on the lat. Notice the position of Henderson’s right foot, he is preparing for the sweep. Henderson identifies the block, and while he is unable to step his right foot to Thomson, he can make Thomson step to his right foot.Ģ. Blocking Henderson’s leg prevents these takedowns, at least on that side. Most takedowns from this position are predicated on stepping into “the danger zone” between in opponent’s feet. Meanwhile, Thomson extends his overhook arm to deftly block Henderson’s right leg from stepping in. He can pull Thomson’s triceps to move him to the left, and his lat to move him to the right. His underhook hand grabs Thomson’s latissimus dorsi (lat) to use as a handle. Henderson understands how to properly wrestle from over-unders. Here, Henderson executed a slick foot sweep, which I picture below and explain step by step.ġ. Both men achieved standard over-unders where each fighter held corresponding underhooks and overhooks with their heads on the overhook-side shoulder. The best bit of clinch wrestling in Henderson vs. Most fans find this boring, and fair enough, but wrestling well in an upper-body clinch requires finely honed skill, skill most fighters (and wrestlers) do not possess. Thomson and Henderson demonstrated an impressive amount of technique wrestling from over-unders, in fact, parts of their fight resembled a moderately high-level Greco-Roman match. Most wrestlers don’t spend enough time practicing this sort of upper-body situation, and many wrestlers and coaches would rather avoid the high level of risk associated with it. If you go to a scholastic wrestling tournament, you will even see coaches of very good wrestlers urging their athletes to avoid over-unders. They spent much of their recent bout in the over-under position (MMA people refer to this as “the clinch”), a wrestling situation where very few American wrestlers are comfortable. Their fighting clearly shows that they receive quality wrestling coaching, and that they actually take this coaching to heart. Gaudy wrestling resumes or not, Thomson and Henderson do an awfully good job applying their wrestling abilities in a prize fight. Henderson placed fifth at 157 pounds at NAIA nationals, a nice achievement, but one which pales in comparison to the wrestling accolades boasted by some of his UFC contemporaries. When Henderson graced their lineup, Dana’s wrestling program won an NAIA national championship. I’m not just talking about the wrestling program the entire school closed its doors a few years ago. Henderson wrestled for Dana College, which no longer exists. The wrestling of Makovsky and Jorgensen Part I The wrestling of Makovsky and Jorgensen Part II
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