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Krav Maga - Fight Class - December 16, 2017 (Hook Sweep)

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Channel: Krav Maga Worldwide - Fort Lauderdale, Florida · 2017 · Sports

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In the technical part of this Fight class, we worked on the Hook Sweep from our back.  The Hook Sweep is a commonly used technique in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu when your opponent is standing above you.

When a more experienced fighter is standing above you, they will neutralize the effectiveness of many of the Krav Maga Level 1 Groundfighting techniques.  They do this by jamming you up or getting too close.  When they are too close, the Hook Sweep is a good counter.

The beginning of this video shows JJ using the Hook Sweep against David during live sparring:

David advances his left leg forward to get closer.  JJ places his right foot on his knee for distance control.  In a real fight, he would stomp on it using the Front Kick from the Ground (Level 1 technique).

David leans forward and attempts a light, left Straight Punch (Level 1) but realizes he's still too far away.  JJ moves his right foot to David's hip.  This will prevent David from getting close enough to land this same punch to JJ's head.

David leans much of his body weight into JJ.  JJ does a good job controlling the distance with both his legs.

JJ realizes David's left foot is very close.  He grabs the back of his heel with his right hand.  Now he has 2 out of the 3 control points in order to complete the Hook Sweep.

JJ now hooks the back of David's knee with his left foot to get the last control point and finishes the sweep.  He immediately does the Getting Up with One Hand technique (Level 1) to get back to his feet.

JJ realizes that David is getting up too slow from being swept.  He takes advantage of this and lands a combination of punches before backing off to let David get up.

We finished class by doing rounds of sparring where we worked on both stand-up fighting and fighting off our back.  This type of sparring simulates you defending yourself on your feet and then you end up falling to your back for whatever reason (slip, pushed, tripped, etc.) and must continue to defend yourself and work your way back to a standing position.

Thank you to my students who attended this Fight class!  Students can always contact me for feedback on their sparring performance.

-Randall

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