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It's Friday and time for this week's Legends newsletter;
buncha stuff today...
First--There are only 2 more days to snag this DVD at the discounted price
Arm Bar Chases PT. 2, you'll get the whole skinny in the next block.
Third--Stuff cookin' for 2015
- Trifecta Boot Camps. Tiered Certification Boot Experiences for MMA Boxing-Wrestling & Street-Work that allow you to earn your way from the Lite Camp all the way up to the "Are you ready for this?" experience.
- Private Facebook interactivity for the RAW Crew to share and commiserate with your Daily inTENS Challenges, the monthly MMA Drill Templates, and the NSC Drill Experiences.
- Joint camps with mighty good man and Coach Kris Iatskevitch. We've decided to team up now and then to double up on cruelty. Looking forward to this!
- And much, much more in the works! Jump in with the RAW crew to get full access to all of this meanness.
Fourth--This week's article is a twofer as we explore two indigenous grappling arts. Wild stuff!
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Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Mark Hatmaker
Extreme Self Protection
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ESP RAW 147
Bottom Scissors Threats:
Arm Bar Chases #2
This volume is all back-work. Yes, I know as wrestlers and/or street practitioners we do not want to be on our backs. What we do here is begin a short series of volumes that is designed to make you as aggressive as a rabid wolverine off of your back on the premise that this will allow you to hook a sub, or open get-up opportunities rather than play a passive lay and pray game.
[This volume is meant to be drilled alongside RAW 146 and picks up where it left off.]
This volume includes:
- Refining the Arm Bar Chase and The Four Set-Ups.
- We then run into a lengthy sequence using non-sweeping Under-Hooks.
- We'll bait from the Arm Bar to the Leg Bar.
- Next we'll bait with the Leg Bar and transition to the higher percentage Leg Bar Sweep.
- We'll then drill using the Non-Sweeping Under-Hook Arm Bar directly into a Coil Lock.
- We'll drill a few Coil Lock transitioning exercises to get a bit more fluid with the hip roll.
- Then...I'll explain why I have little faith in the coil lock but then drill you why it was so important to learn it-we'll use the 1st 10% of the coil lock to get you out from under and back on top where you ought to be.
- Next we run a series vs. a Vacuumed Arm Defense.
- We'll hit Triangle Transitions.
- Why you should "cut" the head and not "pull" the head in Triangles.
- We'll Drill Triangle/Arm Bar Combos.
- Then Triangle Sweeps that won't unlock your legs.
- We'll then hit the little-used but oh, so sneaky False Triangle.
- We'll then plug Coils and Coil Sweeps vs. Hip Blocked Triangles.
- And finish off with Cross-Side Leg Bars and Cross-Side Leg Bar Sweeps.
This volume (as with all volumes of RAW) comes with a printed syllabus for inclusion in your training notebook.
ESP RAW 147 can be had this month for $32 (S & H included--Domestic & International) at the end of the month the price goes to $42 Domestic/$52 International. [Of course, it's only $26.50 for the RAW Crew.]
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Fingerhaklen & Lucha Leonesa
Mark Hatmaker
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FINGERHAKLEN
Fingerhaklen (also: Hagglziegn and Steirisch-Hackelziehen) was an Alpine wrestling hybrid that seems to have been competed primarily in the Austrian Alps. This unusual grappling game is sure to be of interest to grip-strength aficionados. The two competitors would sit across a table from one another in chairs and place one hand behind their backs. The other arm would be extended across the table with the middle finger extended. The competitors would then hook each other's middle-fingers together and the game commenced.
The object of the game was to extend your opponent's middle-finger causing him to lose his grip. Variations of the game include the fingers hooking a rubber-coated steel loop, or a leather strap; while some variations demanded that you not merely break your opponent's grip but, using only the single finger grip, pull your opponent's head or body across a centerline drawn on the table.
Josef Marcher, a native of Kirchdorf born in 1863, was the foremost champion of this sport in the 19th century. His success was attributed to his unusually thick fingers.
LUCHA LEONESA
We've discussed indigenous grappling styles of the Canary Islands in the past; today let's take a brief look at another, Lucha Leonesa. It began, as so many wrestling styles do, as a sort of communal game and then gradually progressed along the codification process. Lucha Leonesa is a standing only game that utilizes a fixed hold on a special belt (there are some sub-sets of this art that use two belts and its play resembles that of Icelandic Glima). The object, as you may guess, is to bring your opponent off of his feet.
Before the advent of the Lucha Leonesa wrestling belt competitors used to take holds on their opponent's pants but, it is around 1920 that we see the belt make its appearance. In some cases the art is referred to as Trinchas (the belt). Before codification, there was some ground play as some villages required a two-shoulder pin before victory was declared. The ground game is now out of Lucha Leonesa but the art continues and is governed by the Federation Territorial de Lucha Leonesa which is a member of the International Federation of Celtic Wrestling.
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Some of us are old-enough to remember a series of interactive books where readers were asked to make a decision and then go to a corresponding page to see what sort of mess you got yourself into. You never quite knew where you were going to wind up with these books--pre-video game era, these were a novel idea.
Here's where you come in, if you'd like to host a seminar and save yourself some bucks off of the standard fees in the process--if you've got an Adventure Race in your area, a rock you think I'd like to climb, a river you think I want to raft, a hike you think I just need to take, a desert I've not run on, you get the idea--pitch your adventure and school location. If the adventure appeals and the logistics are right we offer greatly reduced fees to come to your school and play with your crew before we go play at your Adventure Pitch.
BTW--You and your crew are welcome to attend the adventure, as a matter of fact, we'll knock off even more bucks for this sort of hands-on guiding.
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