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Post by ArmyOfOne on Oct 14, 2005 21:33:18 GMT -5
just wondering if Vince or anybody has ever seen an achilles lock done by clasping the hands together (fingers interlocked), as opposed to a gable grip, or three finger grip, or any other kind of grip. I recently saw a photo of a technique where the guy was in an outside figure four position on his opponent, and had the ankle/leg in a position where he could have easily gone for the outside heel hook, but instead he was doing the achilles lock. It seemed like the angle of pressure to the leg was at a bit better with the clasped hands grip, and the radial bone on the thumb side of your arm was hitting the mark much better.... here's a link to the pic..... www.lockflow.com/article_view.php?id=537
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Post by Vince on Oct 15, 2005 4:34:32 GMT -5
There is never any situation in which I would use that grip... other than perhaps doing the "here's the church, here's the steeple... open it up and there's all the people" demonstration. There are just too many disadvantages to it.
I've never heard of the guy doing that technique on the website you posted. He is not stopping his opponent from escaping or even keeping him pinned down in the final picture, and he is using that grip. Sure, at that point he could get away with using that grip IF his body was in the correct position AND he was pinning his opponent down, but why not just use a master grip at that point anyway? There is no good reason not to imho.
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Post by fogster on Oct 15, 2005 16:58:07 GMT -5
Two words, broken fingers.
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