Use your hips, punching and throwing

Little pre-semester start practice tonight and we worked on combining striking with throwing, specifically the ogoshi (hip toss). We initiated each exchange with a jab cross, our partner threw back a cross.

The “Turn and Burn” Versions:

Straight cross: Use a catch parry and hook their cross wide to allow you to setup the underhook. Use your free hand to elbow the face then step across and turn to do the hip toss.

Haymaker: Use the SPEAR and use the near elbow to the face, step across hooking the head with the far arm and hip toss (counter the strike). Alternatively wrap the head with your near arm and turn the opposite way to hip toss (with the strike).

“Side Clinich” Versions

Straight cross: Use a catch parry and hook their cross wide to allow you to setup the underhook. Step up next to their hips and clinch from the side, grabbing their far arm with your anterior hand, your hips perpendicular to theirs, break their posture laterally away from you, step through a hip toss

Haymaker: Use the SPEAR and step into the side clinch as above to hip toss.

We also talk about the to use the side clinch to setup the single leg and knee tap. We also looked at the sacrifice throw to the back by sitting to your butt and placing your posterior leg, straight behind their legs. Use your dropping momentum to transfer pulling energy to their hips and pull them to their back.