Winning from turtle

**goodlun** · Posted On: 11/14/2012 8:47pm

I figured we could use a thread of people winning from one of those positions you really just shouldn't be winning from.

To kick it off I offer up this Freestyle Judo victory.

**crappler** · Posted On: 11/14/2012 9:26pm

Originally Posted by goodlun

I figured we could use a thread of people winning from one of those positions you really just shouldn't be winning from.

To kick it off I offer up this Freestyle Judo victory.

cool!!!!

**Kintanon** · Posted On: 11/14/2012 9:52pm

Not sure if this counts for what you want since the choke is usually initiated from a different position, but Dion Watts is semi-famous for this:

Baseball bat style choke finished from the bottom of turtle.

**goodlun** · Posted On: 11/14/2012 11:18pm

Originally Posted by Kintanon

Not sure if this counts

Baseball bat style choke finished from the bottom of turtle.

Holy crap that is awesome and certainly counts.
Question though what kept the top guy from spinning out of it at the beginning?

**Kintanon** · Posted On: 11/14/2012 11:57pm

Originally Posted by goodlun

Holy crap that is awesome and certainly counts.
Question though what kept the top guy from spinning out of it at the beginning?

Most people don't seem to realize they are in danger until it's too late.
The ones that do frequently try to spin the wrong way.
The ones that try to spin the right way he usually finishes at is if he were finishing a seio nage by digging his shoulder down on that side so that the mat acts to block their escape.

You can kind of see that in this video:

He digs his shoulder down really hard at the end. If the guy had spun around to the correct side to escape it would have thrown him over on his back the same way and he still would have gotten finished.

This is also the guy I learned the choke from indirectly. He used it on one of the guys I train with.