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Mission statement: We need a technique that regulates the risk of injury to the person doing the takedown and the person being forced down, controls mobility after the point of impact, can be learned by people of varying skill levels, and works under various conditions.
Specified tasks:
You must be able to mitigate the risk of injury to the person put on the ground and to the person applying the takedown. Simplified, understand liability (we will get into it more shortly).
You must control mobility after the point of impact, meaning you can increase connection to stay in control or disconnect entirely from the person once on the ground.
Implied tasks:
You must control their hands to limit access to weapons.
– Everything outside the mat room is a weapons-based environment, and you must account for the possibility of weapons. A chosen takedown should maintain control of the other person’s hands. A lot of talented people are advocating for techniques that work well in sports but would fail in a weapons-based environment because there is no control of the hands.
Pick the right one: Time and personal ability are constraints shared by LE and civilians. So, how do you pick a takedown category and specific takedown?
Takedowns seem to be a trending topic at the moment in the social media sphere. We received a lot of DMs asking about our thoughts, so I put together this quick hip-pocket discussion.
Click below to read the full thing.
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