Response to the Thai clinch, aka double neck tie
I was having a problem with a particular sparring partner who had impressive skill and strength in tying me up in his Thai clinch. No matter my counter, it fed in to his response. I asked my teacher if he had a good response for that. He told me to use the headlock immediately. It worked very well. So far I have had only success using the headlock in response to the Thai clinch and haven't seen a counter response to the headlock at that moment.
I'm wondering if anybody knows a good counter for when you have applied the clinch, and then are caught with one arm inside the basket of a headlock?
Not the front/reverse headlock
I wasn't reffering to snapping the guy down into a front headlock. I think if a guy has strong arms there is no way you could pull him down while he has both hands behind your neck. I' talking about a standing headlock, but dont let his hands come loose from your neck. Headlock around his clinch.
The throw in the second video if done in a freestyle match would be called a Jap Wizzer, and the execution was about spot on exactly how a freestyle wrestler would do it. Closer to the 8 min mark in the video the problem with that throw arises. The blue guy pulls and drops, the red guy pushes his hips in and resists and the blue guy falls. I suppose a BJJ guy would be looking for a rear naked at that moment. In Shuai Chiao if he stayed standing and pulled straight over the top of his shoulder that is usually called Bowing. Pulling him around the body is called Pulling.
The Shuai Chiao clip of Pulling is a valid response, but not the one i was referring to. A decent counter to pulling if it is against a MT clinch is to take your left elbow and drive it down into his right shoulder as he tries to break your elbow structure sideways with his shoulder. Turing your wrist outward just a bit at that moment helps to strengthen your structure while he snaps through with his shoulder.
But i still haven't seen a response to the headlock done against a MT clinch