Master Wong teaches the basic sprawl and twist to stop takedowns using cross-face control and a rear-leg sprawl to create distance. He shows how to transition into submissions like the guillotine and adapt the defense whether you're at distance, in the clinch, or against a shot.
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Hey guys, welcome back to another lesson in the Master Wong Grappling and Ground Fight System. In today's lesson, we're going to be talking about the sprawl. As with all martial arts, depending on where you're from, you'll learn various different ways of how to do the sprawl. We're just going to be talking about the basic version today from our system. So as he comes in, I'll be looking to jam the head, turn his head away. So some of you guys call it crossface. So I'll be looking to turn the head, and then as he drives in hard, obviously my lead leg will look to sprawl away from him. As he continues to push and his energy changes, I will of course have to change my energy too in order to prevent myself being taken down to the ground. If I could borrow your mask, show you guys what I mean. So like with all of them, initially we're just going to work at distance. So it's not necessarily from the clinch, we're here. It may be from my shot, he drops in underneath, or he maybe throws his shot instead and then go. Either way it goes, you have to maintain enough distance to react quick enough. If I'm already here, I might not see it, so by the time I go, he's already in and I won't necessarily have time to get the hand inside. So for practicing Initially, just give yourself enough distance. So one second. So I'm basically here. I can reach him with my fingertips, but I couldn't actually reach him quite with a punch. My fingers reach, but it pretty much is the same for him. Okay, so then from here, if I throw, by the time he comes in, I can change as I need to because it gives me that little bit of extra distance and time. So we're from here, and say I go, I'm looking to drop my shoulder first. So my hand, if I just show you on this side, the first thing I'm looking for as he drops in is my hand goes across the top of his and my shoulder is looking to catch his head because that will turn the head away. My hand here, once I've turned, obviously controls the neck and the body. As I said in other videos, the body will always follow the head and neck in order to protect the nervous system. So if we go back in as he drives in. So my rear leg is also going to have to shoot back at the same time as doing this. So I'm up here, so this leg goes as he drives through, tries to catch this leg. I'm here, so I'm away. Now I can obviously from here turn him off balance, it's fine, but that's only if he's an opponent that comes in and stops. He had— there's time before his adjustment. If he was to come in and go instead, I would have to just follow him. I wouldn't have time to necessarily catch the head and take him all the way. So we go in, here, as he switches, I switch with him. So this lines me up, I can then change, go for locks, submissions, etc. So show you that once more. Here, so I go with him, I'm looking to lean against him, my weight's here. I may end up here, but that's fine because I'm not necessarily looking to abide by rules. If I'm in the street and he tries to take me down, I can obviously knee in the head, I can elbow in the spine, I can do what I wish. Of course, competition is slightly different. So show you once more here. As he switches, I switch. So now I've sprawled here, so he may try to continue coming around. I then switch straight into guillotine, that type of thing. So the key, stay Stay relaxed, stay ahead of your opponent. I'll just show you one from this side, nice and slow. So my hand is looking to here first. I'm obviously in, I sprawl this leg. As he switches, I switch with him. So I'm here, if he was to continue, I would turn back in. You've now caught the head, and obviously you have submissions and things like that if you need them. So, once more. First thing, bam! As he goes here, across the face, over the top of that lead arm. So switch. Boom, here. My shoulder drops, my leg shoots, my hand at the same time. As he switches, I switch with him. If I don't follow, then obviously the technique doesn't work. Here. Notice how he spread away. Of course, he can adjust it, and he will, but obviously I will do the same. As he does that, if he doesn't protect his neck, he loses it. We're in the street, his knee's in the head. Thank you. So as you see, like most of them, we try to keep it fairly simple, and it's all about just follow your opponent, follow his movement, adjust when he adjusts so that you can obviously manipulate his energy as it changes. So as I say, you're here, this hand drops, shoulder in, and then this leg will shoot away in order to give you the distance that you need to stop him getting the leg, dragging it in, and taking you down. Thanks for watching, guys. See you next time.
