Self-Defense Tip 118 Clinch

Clinch in hand-to-hand combat and self-defense

In hand-to-hand combat clinches happen. If you don’t know what to do in a clinch you may end up like the casualties in the video below.

For useful lessons from this fight see Self-Defense Tip #125 — Good Technique, Poor Tactics: An Ugly Defeat

Learn easy little-known tricks for controlling attackers in a clinch so they can’t do unto you but you can do unto them…. See the video Self-Defense Clinch below.

Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall

In the above video, Self-Defense Clinch, you will learn the following:

0:00 Bad things that can happen to you in a clinch,
0:32 throws you can use for slamming your attacker against the ground,
5:36 essentials of a clinch, such as grips, leg position, head control,
10:43 what to do when your clinch fails,
12:30 unbalancing for throws,
16:18 knee kicks — how to, how not to, and how to defend against them,
24:01 bumps and trips for take-downs and throws,
25:33 turns,
27:01 clinch at a wall.

Now, after viewing the techniques taught in the Self-Defense Clinch video, see how not to practice clinching for self-defense, in the video below.

Grappling on the STREET!?
The TeachMeGrappling’s Coach Brian Peterson knows every technique I show in the Self-Defense Clinch: Grips, Throws, Knee Kicks, Bumps and Trips, Turns, and a Clinch at a Wall, so what is the purpose of not doing any of these effective techniques during his students’ practice? What do you think?

BTW, you may find a useful technique in Self-Defense Tip #1 — How to Set Up an Entry into a Clinch with a Kick Combination.

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Applying any of the techniques mentioned above is your sole responsibility.

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Self-defense tip from Thomas Kurz, co-author of Basic Instincts of Self-Defense and author of Science of Sports Training, Stretching Scientifically, and Flexibility Express.

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