Originally Posted by
YouKnowWho
When you get your opponent in "double underhooks", you just give your opponent a free "double overhooks" on you. It balances out, both will have the same center of gravity issue, and nobody has advantage over another. It depends on your leg (or hip) skill to throw the other person down. The clinch is just to prepare for your throw. The clinch is not throw by itself.
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- "double underhooks" is good for lift up.
- "double overrhooks" is good for press down.
- "one underhook and one overhook" is good for spin in circle.
Since most throws will require spin motion, the "one underhook and one overhook" is used more often. When it's used, the "one overhook" is called "arm wrap".
This is the TCMA way to look at the clinch, the wrestling and Judo may look at clinch from a different angles.