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The Bent-Body Side Kick uses an exaggerated lateral body lean away from the target, bending at the waist toward the ground on the non-kicking side, to extend the effective reach of the side kick by ap...
The Body-Lock Takedown secures a tight body lock (clasping both hands around the opponent's torso, typically with one arm over the shoulder and one under the armpit, hands clasped behind the opponent'...
The Baseball Choke is a gi-based collar choke that uses a distinctive split grip — one hand gripping the collar palm-up and the other palm-down in opposite directions — creating a powerful rotational ...
The Baby Bolo Sweep is a De La Riva guard sweep that uses a small inversion (a 'mini-berimbolo') to off-balance and sweep the opponent without committing to a full berimbolo back-take rotation. [1] Th...
The Dirty Boxing Clinch is an MMA-specific clinch position where one hand controls the opponent's head via a collar tie (cupping the back of the neck) while the other hand delivers short punches, elbo...
The Foot Blade Front Kick strikes with the outer edge of the foot (sokuto — literally 'sword foot') rather than the ball or heel, concentrating force along a narrow blade-like surface for penetrating ...
The Bent-Body Long Roundhouse Kick uses extreme lateral body lean to maximise reach at the cost of balance. [1] By bending the torso away from the kicking leg, the practitioner extends the effective r...
The Bent-Body Spin-Back Hook Kick combines the spinning hook kick with lateral body lean, creating an extended-range spinning hook attack. [1] The lean compensates for the body's natural tendency to s...
The Suplex is the family of wrestling throws in which the attacker secures a body lock or waist grip, lifts the opponent off the ground using hip and back extension, and arches backward to slam the op...
The Hip Out Mount Escape is the fundamental technique for recovering guard from the bottom of mount position, combining a hip escape (shrimp) with an elbow-knee connection that inserts the knee betwee...
The Standard Berimbolo Technique executes the full berimbolo from De La Riva guard by hooking the DLR leg deep, gripping the opponent's belt or pants, inverting by pulling the hips overhead, and spinn...
The Straight Leg Hook Kick is delivered with the kicking leg kept straight (or nearly straight) throughout the entire hooking arc, creating a wider trajectory and longer reach than the standard bent-k...
The Downward Back Kick drives the heel downward and backward at approximately 30-45° below horizontal, targeting the opponent's knee joint, shin, or instep (top of the foot) from behind — a stomping b...
From a standing backpack control the attacker feeds the near lapel under the opponent's chin to the far hand, secures a cross-grip on the far lapel, drops the chest and rotates the wrists in a basebal...
The Standard Over-Arms Bear Hug positions the attacker's arms over and around the opponent's arms and torso, locking the hands behind the opponent's back while squeezing the opponent's arms tight agai...
The Body-Lock Takedown to Back combines a body-lock takedown with an immediate back-take, maintaining the body lock throughout the descent and transitioning directly to back control. [1]
The Block group encompasses all defensive techniques that use the arms, hands, legs, or body to physically intercept and absorb incoming strikes — the most fundamental form of defence across every str...
Seiken Ago Uchi is a Kyokushin karate rising punch specifically targeting the chin from below, driving the fore-fist (seiken — the index and middle finger knuckles) upward into the underside of the op...
From standing backpack control the attacker feeds the near lapel using the outside hand to wrap over the collar, secures a cross-grip on the far lapel, establishes a strong outside bite, then rotates ...
The Bent-Body Hook Kick uses lateral body lean to extend the reach of the hook kick significantly beyond standard range. [1] The lean creates a counterbalance that allows the kicking leg to travel fur...
The Tilted Heel Front Kick is a front kick delivered with the heel while tilting the foot outward at approximately 15-30 degrees from vertical, allowing the kick to penetrate at a slight angle past th...
Submissions are techniques that force an opponent to concede defeat — typically by tapping out — through the application of joint locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, compression locks, or pain complianc...
Bottom Escape covers all techniques for escaping inferior bottom positions where the opponent has established dominant top control — the defensive survival skills that keep a fighter in the fight afte...
De Ashi Barai (advancing foot sweep) is a fundamental ashi-waza technique in which the thrower sweeps the opponent's advancing foot at the moment it is about to bear weight, using a lateral brushing a...
A subset of back control chokes where the attacker uses a cross-grip baseball bat configuration on the opponent’s lapel or collar while maintaining back control. [1] The arms rotate around the opponen...
The Standard Bob And Weave executes the fundamental bob-and-weave where the fighter drops the level by bending the knees (not the waist), ducking below the incoming hook or overhand, then weaves later...
Seiken Gedan Barai (commonly called Gedan Barai or Low Block) is the fundamental downward sweeping block in traditional karate, deflecting attacks directed at the lower body — low punches, front kicks...
The Standard Knee On Belly subfamily covers the classic knee-on-belly position where the top fighter faces the opponent's head with one knee on the belly/midsection and the other foot posted for base....
The Standard Front Body Lock Takedown subfamily represents the classical front body lock technique where the attacker secures a locked grip around the opponent's waist from the front and drives them t...
The truck is a back-control position developed by Eddie Bravo in the early 2000s as part of his 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system, where the attacker uses a figure-four leg configuration to pin one of the ...
The Basic Butterfly Sweep subfamily covers the fundamental butterfly guard sweeps that use a single hook elevation combined with upper body control to off-balance and sweep the opponent to one side. [...
The Jean Jacques Sweep is a half guard sweep from the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system, executed from the lockdown position by establishing a deep underhook, elevating the opponent using a hip-whip motion...
The body-triangle extension combines body triangle back control with a cervical extension crank, using the body triangle's hip compression as an anchor while the arms drive the head backward. [1] The ...
The Standard Under-Arms Bear Hug positions the attacker's arms beneath the opponent's armpits, wrapping around the lower torso with hands locked behind the opponent's back. [1] The attacker presses th...
Sok Ngad (the Uppercut Elbow) drives the point of the elbow vertically upward into the opponent's chin from below, combining the knockout mechanics of a boxing uppercut with the devastating hardness o...
The Bread Cutter Choke is a gi-based submission applied from side control where the attacker reaches across the opponent's neck to grip the far collar, then drives the blade edge of the forearm across...
The Fundamental Punch family covers punching techniques that span multiple martial arts traditions beyond Western boxing — including backfists, hammer fists, spinning backfists, and superman punches t...
The Heel Roundhouse Kick is a roundhouse kick variant that strikes with the heel instead of the shin or instep, concentrating the kick's circular force onto a small, hard, bony surface for maximum pen...
From standing backpack control the attacker feeds the near lapel under the opponent’s chin using the inside hand, establishes a deep inside grip, then cross-grips the far lapel and rotates wrists in a...
Closed guard is the most fundamental guard position in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, where the bottom player wraps their legs around the opponent's torso and locks their ankles behind the opponent's back, crea...
The Defence Against Hook Punch is the Krav Maga technique for defending against circular hook punches to the head or body, using a raised forearm shield that absorbs and deflects the hook's arc while ...
The Berimbolo family covers the berimbolo technique and its variations — a spinning inversion from De La Riva guard that uses an under-the-back rotation to take the opponent's back or achieve a sweep....
The Running Up the Cage Mount Escape is an MMA-specific technique that uses the cage wall as a physical prop to generate the hip bridge needed to escape mount when the defender is flat on their back n...
Aiki Nage is the Family-level grouping of the canonical aikido throws — the throws that most explicitly demonstrate the aiki principle of blending with and redirecting the opponent's energy. [1,2] The...
The Punt Kick to Face is a soccer-style kicking motion directed at a grounded opponent's head, delivering the instep in a wide swinging arc identical to a football punt — one of the most devastating a...
The Standard De La Riva Sweep executes the fundamental DLR guard sweep by using the DLR hook to stretch and off-balance the opponent backward, controlling the ankle of the hooked leg while pulling the...
The Standard Berimbolo subfamily covers the core berimbolo technique — the foundational inversion from De La Riva guard that spins underneath the opponent to take the back. [1] This is the original be...
Headquarters (HQ) is a top control / pre-pass position in modern Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu where the standing or kneeling top player parks one shin across the bottom player's near hip with the foot hooked b...
The Rear Body Lock Takedown family encompasses all takedowns executed from behind the opponent with a locked grip around the torso. [1] Rear body lock position is one of the most dominant standing cli...
The Elbow Block subfamily covers blocking techniques where the fighter uses the elbow — one of the hardest and most durable bones in the body — to intercept incoming strikes, both defending the target...