Saturday, October 23, 2010

Whipped Cream Pouring Like Water Falls!



I just want to cram this in before the MMA universe goes coo coo for cocoa puffs and race riots over the results of Brock/Cain. First, Bellator is awesome, please make an effort to watch it if you like MMA, some of last years most amazing finishes were produced in the tournaments in Yahir Reyes' spinning backfist KO of Estevan Payan and Toby Imada's standing inverted triangle.

This is a clip of former Olympic judoka, Rick Hawn, hitting a perfectly-timed ippon seonagi on a black guy leading to a TKO finish. Ippon seonagi along with harai goshi, and uchi mata seem to be the most successful and transferable throws in MMA with non-judo players starting to add these to their repertoire.

The black dude fails in attempting to climb the back of Hawn from the rear standing position, Hawn uses this as his kuzushi (off-balancing) and deftly throws his opponent with ease. The key to the throw was Hawn's immediate recognition of the negro's kuzushi and placement of the left arm, additionally his excellent form and balance let Hawn remain standing over his opponent ready to drop bombs upon his dark and mysterious brow. Great, impactul throws stem from doing them immediately when kuzushi is achieved, like in this massive harai goshi performed by Judo-in-MMA standard-bearer, Karo Parisiyan on Diego Sanchez. As soon as Karo gets that right overhook he immediately begins his throw, giving Sanchez no time to gain his balance and counter the throw, in fact the throw is timed too well and is too forceful resulting in Karo being disorientated on the ground.

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