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A lead hook targeting the opponent's ribcage or midsection, thrown with a lower trajectory and often accompanied by bending the knees.

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 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 Back Control family covers the various methods of controlling an opponent from behind, using combinations of hooks, body triangles, and upper body grips. [1] Back control is defined by having the ...

The Body Triangle Back Control subfamily covers back control positions where the controlling fighter locks the legs in a figure-four configuration around the opponent's torso instead of using standard...

The Drop Hooking Back Kick combines a body drop with a back kick that hooks at the end, creating a sweeping attack from ground level. [1] The combination of the drop and the hook creates a wide, unpre...

The Standard Supine Rear Mount has the controlling fighter lying on their back with the opponent face-up on top, hooks or body triangle locked in, and seatbelt grip secured. [1] From this position, th...

The Body Triangle Escape subfamily covers techniques for escaping when the opponent has secured back control with a body triangle — legs locked in a figure-four around the defender's torso rather than...

The Seatbelt Turtle subfamily covers the attacking position where the top fighter controls the turtled opponent from behind using the seatbelt grip (over-under arm configuration from behind). [1] The ...

The twister is a cervical rotation crank that applies extreme lateral rotation and flexion to the spine by trapping the opponent's legs (via a lockdown or leg entanglement) while cranking the head in ...

The Standard Inside Ankle Trip executes the fundamental inside ankle hook-and-trip where the attacker, from a clinch position, steps between the opponent's legs, hooks the near ankle with the instep, ...

The face crank from rear mount is applied from standard back control by placing a hand or forearm across the opponent's face — typically under the nose or on the chin — and pulling the head backward w...

Sok Tad (the Horizontal Elbow) is the second foundational elbow strike in Muay Thai's classical 24-elbow system (Cherng Sok 24 Cherng), delivered in a sweeping horizontal arc parallel to the ground, t...

Standard O Soto Gake executes the classical major outer hook where the thrower steps outside the opponent's lead leg, wraps the calf or hamstring behind the opponent's thigh, and drives the opponent b...

The Half-Pivot Hook Kick uses only a 90-degree pivot rather than the standard hook kick's full 180-degree turn, enabling significantly faster delivery at closer range at the cost of reduced power. [1]...

The Inside Ankle Trip subfamily specifically targets the opponent's ankle from the inside, using the attacker's foot to hook or block the ankle while upper body pressure drives the opponent over the t...

A left hook (from orthodox stance) specifically targeting the liver on the right side of the opponent's body, capable of causing acute pain and shutdown of motor function.

The Drop Hook Kick delivers a hook kick while dropping the body, creating a sweeping low-level attack. [1] The drop changes the plane of the attack, making the hook trajectory come from an unexpected ...

The Back Position group encompasses all positions where one fighter has achieved control from behind the opponent, considered the most dominant positional category in grappling. [1] Back positions are...

The Back Position Transition family covers techniques for transitioning to and maintaining back control — the second-most dominant position in grappling (after mount in some hierarchies, or the most d...

The Krav Maga 360 Defence is a comprehensive blocking system that uses six forearm blocking positions arranged around the body to intercept strikes coming from any angle — above, below, left, right, f...

The Standard Reclined Butterfly positions the guard player leaning back at approximately 45 degrees with both butterfly hooks in the opponent's thighs, using the angle to create pulling leverage on th...

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 Leg Ride Control family covers the technique of using the legs to ride and control the opponent from behind — a wrestling-based control system where the top wrestler threads one or both legs betwe...

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 Hook Back Control subfamily covers back control positions using hooks — feet inserted inside the opponent's thighs from behind — as the primary lower body control method. [1] Hooks are the traditi...

The rear neck crank from back without hooks is a cervical-spine submission applied from a partial back position — chest-to-back contact established, but no hooks or body triangle. [1] Rather than rely...

The Standard Peterson Roll executes the wrestling reversal by hooking the opponent's far arm from the turtle position, then rolling over the shoulder on the hooked-arm side to reverse the position and...

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...

The Peterson Roll subfamily covers the wrestling-derived turtle escape where the bottom fighter reaches across, hooks the opponent's far arm, and rolls over the shoulder to reverse the position. [1] N...

The Standard Seated Rear Mount establishes full back control with the controlling fighter sitting upright behind the opponent, hooks or body triangle secured, seatbelt grip established, with the oppon...

The Mount Escape family within the Back Escape group covers techniques for escaping when the opponent achieves mount from a back-control transition — addressing the specific challenge of an opponent w...

The Standard Inversion Escape from north-south bridges the hips upward, rolls onto the upper back, and swings the legs over the body to hook around the opponent, recovering guard through the inversion...

The standard gogoplata from closed guard is a shin-across-throat choke where the attacker places the shin of one leg across the opponent's throat from a bottom guard position, then pulls the head down...

The Scoot And Turn Escape subfamily covers back escape techniques where the defender slides the hips downward and sideways while turning to face the attacker, using the scooting motion to create the s...

The Supine Rear Mount subfamily covers the rear mount position where the controlling fighter is lying on their back with the opponent on top of them, face up, with hooks or body triangle maintaining c...

The Standard Heel Hook Escape executes the primary defence by counter-rotating the body in the direction of the heel hook's rotation to relieve the twisting force on the knee, then clearing the knee p...

O Soto Gake (major outer hook) is a judo ashi-waza technique in which the thrower hooks the back of the opponent's leg from the outside using the calf or back of the thigh, trapping the leg at a highe...

The Single Hook back control uses one foot inserted inside the opponent's thigh while the other leg is positioned differently — typically wrapped around the waist, posted on the mat, or in transition....

The Inside Slip moves the head to the inside of the incoming punch (toward the opponent's centre), rotating the upper body so the punch passes over the outside shoulder. [1] The inside slip is more ag...

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 Rear Mount family covers the fully established back control positions where the controlling fighter has both hooks or a body triangle secured from behind the opponent. [1] Rear mount is the ultima...

The cross collar choke from back control is executed by inserting one hand deep into the far-side collar with the wrist blade rotated toward the carotid artery, and the other hand gripping the near-si...

The Chair Sit family covers the back control position where the controlling fighter sits behind the opponent with both fighters' hips on the mat, the controlling fighter's legs wrapped around the oppo...

The Standard Seatbelt Turtle establishes the seatbelt grip from behind the turtled opponent, with one arm over the shoulder and the other under the armpit, chest pressed against the opponent's back. [...

The Standard Chair Sit establishes the basic chair sit position with the controlling fighter seated behind the opponent, hips on the mat, legs around the opponent's waist, and upper body control via s...

The Underhook family covers clinch positions where the attacker threads their arm under the opponent's arm from inside, hooking around the upper body and securing inside position. [1] The underhook is...

The 10th Planet Sweep family covers sweeping techniques developed within Eddie Bravo's 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu system — sweeps executed from the system's proprietary guard positions (Lockdown half guard...

The Inversion North-South Escape uses an inversion — rolling onto the upper back and elevating the hips — to recover guard from the north-south position. [1] The inversion exploits the fact that the o...

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. [...