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The Throws and Takedowns of Judo

The Throws and Takedowns of Judo
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Ground fighting is taking the martial arts world by storm . . . but how do you get to the ground safely and end in a prone position? What are the dangers of throwing and taking an opponent over? Geoff teaches you how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw, including the original ‘blow before throw’ techniques banned from sport grappling a hundred years ago. Geoff is qualified in all the different forms of grappling and teaches with a realistic bent. A must for any one who wants to survive a close range encounter in a REAL situation. Geoff Thompson draws upon many years of dealing with raw street violence to produce a series of books that treat martial arts with an edge of reality, making them far more reliable as methods of self defence. In this fully illustrated Throws and Take-Downs manual he covers multiple throwing techniques from Judo - Tachi Waza.
Summersdale Publishers Ltd.; December 2004
96 pages; ISBN 9781840248272
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Excerpt
In this volume we will look specifically at the basic throws and take-downs of judo. Having studied this system for quite a chunk of my life I can vouch for the potency and dynamism of this much-underrated art. As with ground fighting, don’t make the throws and take-downs the be all and end all. Many opponents in a live scenario will not allow you to throw them cleanly, they will grip you like their very lives depend upon it and drag you to the floor with them and if you don’t know how to fight on the floor then you are up the proverbial creek. As I have said in all of the books and videos that I put out, please don’t rely on this book, or any other for that matter, to teach you, it must be used in combination with a good class or a good training partner. There is nothing like a real opponent to perfect the physical technique; I’d go as far as to say that it cannot be learned properly by book alone. Learn the fundamentals of the technique, and then put it under the pressure of a non-compliant partner to perfect it. Once you can work the technique on someone that doesn’t want to be thrown, then you know you’ve got it off. Compliance kills!