Take Down from Standing Position

Setup:
Facing opponent, both with control of lapel and elbow.
Opponent has stiff arms and will not allow you to approach

Actions:

1. Maintain a tight grip and open your own elbows outwardly as if doing a lateral Shoulder raise while also pulling the opponent towards you to unbalance the opponent.
2. Drive with the leading foot forward, as if stepping through the opponent, and going for a double leg hold with your own arms, ensuring your own head is tight on against the chest on the inside, and not on the outside of the chest.
3. Maintaining the double leg grip, slightly squat with the right leg and straighten up the left leg, while pushing right with your head  to topple the opponent. 

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.

Take-Down 2012-12-26

Take Down.

1. Grasp right collar with right hand; concurrently

2. Grasp left sleeve at elbow, tight grip; next

3. raising left hand and concurrently pulling down on right collar, turn "steering wheel" 

4. release grips and grasp lower left leg of opponent while placing head and shoulder against inside of chest

5. grip opponent's leg between your own legs

6. with opponent leg tightly controlled, and right foot stationary, sweep left foot in semi-circle backwards while pressing down on knee with shoulder.