If it is time to throw, it happens. Technique is dictated by your intent and the situation as it presents itself.
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If it is time to throw, it happens. Technique is dictated by your intent and the situation as it presents itself.
Agree with MightyB on this. It's better to "create" your opportunity than to "wait" for your opponent to arrive. Since your "rooting leg" position can decide whether your "attacking leg" will be able to reach to your opponent's leg or not. You have to watch your opponent's forward foot position and coordinate your footwork with it.
The worse nightmare for a grappler is when your opponent gives you a throwing opportunity, your hands and feet are not at the right position and at the right time. The moment that you have readjust your hands and feet position, that opportunity is gone.
The "front cut" is very easy to set up. All you need is a left arm downward parry on your opponent's leading arm, followed by an arm wrap (spin your opponent's arm and then catch it on the other end), also use your other arm to "comb hair" and deflect your opponent's other arm. But you have to drill this kind of set up to the death in order to be good at it. The nice thing about this set up is you can integrate it into your daily walking. Every time that after my 4 miles running on the beach, I would walk 2 miles and train both "front cut" foot work and arms set up. This way I won't feel guilty by doing running for "health" only.
No problem. You know though, it can really be from either stance. If you are in southpaw you just use a triangle stepping to slip to the outside and you will be in orthodox. From orthodox you can just launch off your right (back) foot on a 45 to the outside. That's the beauty of this type of stepping. You can go from inside to outside to inside to outside very easily. Step-check-deflect-strike…etc. I've gotten to the point that my triangle stepping just kind of floats in the air from one stance (orthodox/southpaw) to the other. That sounded weird so I'll try explaining it this way… I kind of just hop from right foot lead to left foot lead on 45 degree angles. Anywhoo, I'm sure you get it.