2012-12-27 Take Down, No Gi

Set up is two opponents facing each other while standing.

Training partner has hand on your left shoulder, arm fully extended, as if blocking your advance.

1. Use your left shoulder to sweep your training partner's hand off of your shoulder area.  Accomplish this with a sweep as if you were trying to swat a fly with your shoulder: round your shoulder back to break the opponent's hold, then suddenly sweep forward and downward, trapping the opponent's hand with your upper torso.

2.  Concurrently, focusing on the same arm you have swept down with your torso, control the opponent's hand by grabbing with your right hand in an underhand grip. 

3. With your free left hand, reach through the space between the opponent's controlled arm and torso toward your own wrist, and grasp it with an overhand grip.

4. Force the opponent's arm in toward their own body, bending it naturally at the elbow, while simultaneously pulling down to break the opponent's posture; concurrently

5. Be sure that your head is placed against the opponent's body, aligned inside, not outside (do not place head between opponent's arm and torso; rather, place it against the opponent's rib cage).

6. Release the grip and grap the opponent's leg, as far down as possible, below the calf muscle and above the ankle.

7. With a firm grip on the opponent's leg, pull it upwards between your legs, and secure the leg with your own legs, while driving forward to cause the opponent to fall.