Pasi Laurén: what is essential in throws
Grappling instruction: don’t attack a set defense - attack one way, read the reaction, then throw the opposite way before they recover.
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Transcript
Well, I'd leave you to believe the old champions who say, that power does not respond. That it's a bad idea. And in other words, it means that if a guy has a good defense, don't Never attacks a good defense. Always have to break that defense. Usually, you can also do it the way you stop attacking, so the couple focus on their own attack, and then no defense. It's usually enough, but today, what we did was that we leave. To attack one direction, and then we look at the reaction. And that reaction is always unique, and we have to sort of be able to live it. with the reaction. And then we always throw the other way. In that direction, at the moment when a couple does not yet have a defense, they have not recovered. About the first attack. And then we throw it the other way, where it has no defence at all. That this kind of thing basically works pretty far in practice. This is how we've turned around. Let the guy react. If we go, if we pull and hold and turn, then There's no defense. And we're not gonna let the couple react.