Welcome guys to
another episode of Scenic Fights Fight Scenes Breakdown! I'm Chad Vázquez. – I'm Logan Lo. – The mincemeat king, and we have a very special episode today. Thanks to a Discord user
for recommending this to us, we are doing our first anime breakdown. The show we're looking at
is called "Kengan Ashura". It's on Netflix. Pretty much just to give you a little idea of what the story is about, these companies, whether
big or small in Japan participate in Kengan matches, in order to have fighters that they hire to represent their interests. And whoever wins, wins
the deal that they have. The fight scene that we're breaking down, is between two characters: and Naoya is the MMA guy. So, there's a lot of
cool grappling MMA stuff in this fight scene. All alright, you guys ready? You better be ready. You ready buddy? – Yeah! – Let's do this. All right so that was a fake to a double. [Logan] Okay.
[Chad] Sprawl. [Chad] Right, so it's
wrestling happening right there. [Logan] Oh, Jesus.
[Chad] Into the face. [Chad] That happened to me once in my fights.
[Chad] Nice leg kick. [Logan] I remember that. Oh, this is legit. – Yeah, the form actually
looks pretty good, yeah, right? Kicks to the arm. All right, so, it's cool there. That's such real thing. By kicking it in, you weaken the arm so they can't use it as much, I like that. [Logan] Ooh.
[Chad] Okay, all right. so, we have a Thai clinch. – [Logan] That's brutal. – All right, so, little funny story. Kanoh gets punched in the face and the reason why that
happens, it's happened to me. – [Logan] Okay. – Your head has to be tight to your partner's head If you're like this– – Right. – The guy could just swing, and that's what happened to my fight. – Okay. – I caught the dude and just swings over and catches me right in the face. Although I did, you're good.
I just let him go.
– Right. – And we're back to just square one. – So, you got a flashback from the scene. – So actually you know what? We can break it down a little bit, on just some basics on a Thai clinch, and what you shouldn't do. What I learned the hard way
(chuckles) in one of my fights was if you're gonna go to a
Thai clinch, some details here, both forearms are right by the collar bones, and I connect my hands like so, right to the crown of the head.
Now, my head's out here, what happened in my fight, yes. Overhand. And that's what happened to Agito, when he got punched real hard. So in a Thai clinch, you
wanna go head to head tightly so you're not so exposed
for punches like that. From here now, I can start
throwing my knees, right? So, that's one of the main
weapons, in this position, particularly, this variation.
Where now from here, I can
start kneeing, very effectively. Now, in the combat sport of Muay Thai, you can't do throws or takedowns like you see in mixed martial arts, it's illegal, right? You can't just grab someone,
pick 'em up and slam them. You can't wrap your limb
around theirs and pull. But you can do trips. So, one of the example. From this clinch here, I will circle Logan out, and it can possibly have
a post there on my foot, to create off balancement,
if possible, knockdown. So I'm not gonna take Logan down, but just to show the off balancement. So, as I move Logan, I create a post, and that if well timed creates a knock down. Let's look at it again. Head to head, as I move him, I create a quick post, and that trips him to a collapse. All right, so double leg takedown. – [Logan] Nice!
– [Chad] He's in his guard. – [Logan] Okay. [Chad] So he's ground and pounding.
All right, so big problem there, Kanoh doesn't cross his legs, he's using the guard wrong, right? The feet should be kind of
somewhere either to each other or on the opponent.
– Gotcha. – So, he had a chance
to go to a close guard. Agito, he's just framing,
and brings his knees tight here. Well, instead of doing this, wrap the legs around like so. Okay? Now, my legs, my hips are above his hips, and I have more control than
what you guys might think. Right? This is a close guard, also referred to as a full guard sometimes from other coaches. All right, goal number one, I have to get some sort of
an upper body control. I can't just reach and grab, especially if someone's
trying to punch me.
Right, I can just reach here? Imma get clocked so I have to use my legs to make 'em base out and expose himself so I can get grips. So, we do knee pulls. By pulling him into one of my shoulders, that you'd see, so it
creates off balancement. Now, if Logan was trying to punch me, first I have my hands up, right? But by pulling, he has to base. Now, I can start getting
some upper body control. So, that's objective one. Objective two, attacking. We need, one, either the elbows outside or across my center line for attacks. To do this though, two, we need to constantly do
angle and misdirection, right? So, whenever I'm attacking someone, my best attacks will come
where I have control, and I have an angle, not straight on. The thing is also, the
guy's resisting me, right? So, during the battle I also have to know how to switch sides.
So, if anything fails here, I'll have to unlock my legs, use my
knees to turn and relock. Unlock my legs, use my
knees to turn and relock. That's my movement goals when it comes to doing
different types of attacks. All right, so in close guard,
he's going into a triangle. – [Logan] Oh, he got out. – All right, so, it's a
nice scramble going on here. – Reversal. – Yep. – Nice. Another reversal. – Yeah, so, now it's
just having a scramble, no one has a control. So, it's just, that's why
the scramble's happening. Okay, Kimura from close guard. Let's break that down. Kimura is something I haven't
really talked about detail yet, especially from close guard. And since we just had a
talk on what close guard is, that's actually a very
important move to know from that position. So, let's actually go into it right now. – Yeah, and we also did the Kimura with "The Man from Nowhere", where it was done standing– – From a standing position.
Yes.
– Right. – Now, actually we'll go into the ground and actually teach you
how to actually use it to break the arm, essentially. So, we're battling, as
I'm trying to pull him in, I wanna get a wrist grip. If successful, I have
to get over his head. Heads are one of the
barriers that stops you from going for a Kimura. So from here, I can hip out, unlocking my legs, using my knees to turn my butt. And that allows me to come over and get an another wrist grip.
What you're looking at right
now is a basic Kimura control. There's more to this, but this
is the basic version of it. Now, what happens a lot in fighting? The opponent will hide his hand. He'll grab either the inside
of his thigh or stomach. From here now, I have to
find a way to pull this out. I can't just pull it, just my arms, especially if
it's a bigger guy than me. So, I can use my legs. One example, my legs can unlock and grapevined towards inside
his legs as best I can, especially if they're wide like so. As I stretch my legs, I do a side crunch and I pull the arm out. Now, my big goal is this guys,
I gotta get this hand behind his back as much as possible. If I don't lift it up, he can
just go back to his defense.
So after I get out here,
I'm going to hip out towards the camera and bring
my foot up towards his far hip. My knees downward. This angle, I created,
allows me to take this hand and bring it over on top of the back so he can't defend anymore. This will also make
breaking the arm very easy. Now, I relock my legs to the far hip.
Now, the finish, I lean back, I pull this
elbow into my armpit, I hip off for pressure and
now my elbow goes downward and that puts pressure,
right to the shoulder. That's how you finish a
Kimura from close guard. Agito got that but then the scene changes and we don't know how Okubo got out, Agito did not finish the fight there. We don't know how Okubo got out, but some ideas on how I can
defend myself from that lock. Well, let's say I give
Logan the Kimura, right? So, you get this here, right? So, quickly, I go to hide my hand
as I mentioned earlier. Personally, I need to in my stomach, and grab the stomach. Now, guys, you want to start
stacking into your opponent, using your head. Remember I told you earlier, angles, Logan needs a dominant
angle to break my arm. So, we're gonna do a little trick here to put pressure on the arm so he either let go, or
we'll shoulder lock him back.
Watch this guys. As I stack Logan, my free hand can go and grab my wrist. I can pull it and start lifting up and putting pressure on his joints here. From here, he'll either
let go or tap here. And that puts pressure around his arm. So, by myself, I grab, I pull and I lift and that starts twisting his shoulder. From here, the guy will,
most people will let go, 'cause it does hurt
their wrist or shoulder, or they might tap. You also saw how Logan's legs open. I can also use it to jump over his legs and extend my position. That's maybe what Okubo did, we don't know 'cause
the scene changed on us. All right, so, back to
reversal, goes to his back. Okay, they're scrambling up a lot but what they're showing
is actually essentially what jujitsu is.
Jujitsu is like this algorithm, right? Take the fight to the ground, pass the legs 'cause legs are dangerous,
they can hurt you. And of course, establish
position, then attack. Attacking is the fourth step, whether it's punches,
joint locks or chokes. So, this nice scramble
is kind of capturing what the algorithm looks like in combat, even though, you know, it
there could be better control. So, I appreciate that. All right, he's in mount position Okay.
– [Logan] That's some serious ground and pound – All right, so, there's some problems here. So, right now, Kanoh is
just blocking, right? And he's not addressing the situation.
Okubo has a control,
which allows him to punch. – And the control is? – The mount itself, the pin, right? He's on his hips there. So, right now he should be doing something to off balance him, let's
see what happens now. [Chad] He's punching away, he's just blocking.
[Logan] He's just eating it right? [Chad] Not fazed,
Okay, reverses him over. – [Logan] Reversal again. – [Chad] They're more putting
submissions over the position, that's why this epic
scramble happening. – How effective is that? – It will keep you alive for
a certain amount of time, eventually you have to address the pin.
– Right. – You have to address the control that's allowing him to punch you. Okay, so, hip bumps, that's valid. Let's talk about the mount and what you should do
if someone's pinning you and punching you especially. Kanoh's getting mounted, right? This is a mount position. And he's getting punched at. He just covers here. If I don't deal with
this and off balance him, he will be in position to sit
on me and keep on punching. He does do something
correct, which is a bridge. Now, I should quickly
by myself demonstrate some key terms I'm gonna use. So, you understand what I'm saying as I demonstrate two very simple examples of how to escape that mount position. Let's teach you guys simply, what a bridge, shrimping,
also knows hip escape are. From this back position
here, I'll adjust my feet, I'll pick a side. For now, I'll move my feet
towards my right side. Now, this allows me to turn my body like this. Downward knee, one in the
upward, I'll push off this leg. This is how I start
off balancing opponents who are pinning me.
Now, let's quickly show what
hip escapes also shrimping are, and how they work with bridges. From here everyone, as I turn to my side, I extend my hips up to my shoulder line. So, you will see the shoulder line here. My hips have to reach that line. And I do an arm limb extension. Side to side. That is called shrimping,
also known as hip escapes. Okay guys, we now know our
movements, our vocabulary, let's go over some escapes here. Very simple one, postured, getting punched,
I have to address posture. Look at my legs. I'll use some form of a bridging action, but I'll put a knee behind his tailbone, and get hands based here Now, I bought myself time
where I'm not getting punched. Now, ideally when Logan
wants to punch me again, fighters will lower down their hips and hands will actually
walk towards the upper body.
So, you see there'll
always be a body contact before he'll just posture, right? 'Cause my hips are
bridging, they're moving. When I feel that, I
gain quickly two grips. Right and I move this hand towards my chest as much as possible. Now, I know what you're thinking, "It's a free hand, I have to act quickly." You don't pause here. We'll just reposition
to show you the reversal. So, now I have my two
grips on the joint here, right? On the wrist and the elbow. The next thing is,
especially I'll be doing this when his heads are leaning
forward little bit, is I need to trap one of his legs.
I'm doing that now guys,
I'm trapping this leg because this is the direction
I'm gonna roll Logan. I don't want him basing
any way that stops my roll. So now everyone, once
I have my grips here, my head moves out of the way. As I go, I could still knock him
over, it won't be enough. My hands go right into the armpits for safety, so I don't expose myself
for certain submissions, like the Kimura. – [Logan] All right, squaring off. – All right, let's do that again. Okay, that's, all right.
– Ooh, nice.
– That's very MMA, where there's
a fake to another attack. This is actually a cool
thing they did here. We see Okubo go for a fake shot to an overhand. That's very classic. First, there are fakes
and there are feints. What's the difference? I will use the jab as a way
to show the two differences, it's easier that way. A feint is this. That's a feint A fake. That's a fake. Alright, what's happening here? A feint is where I don't
fully commit my body. Why would you do this? You would use to test the
reaction of the opponent. So I'm fighting you here, right? And we're sparring. That feint, I'll use it
to see how you react. This is a very important tool to use against counter fighters. Guys who know how to read the
body and react and time you. So, if I'm not confident
enough to attack the guy here by just taking a step, a small squat and a small lean, I use my body to signal
that I'm about to attack which I'm not though, I'm just seeing how the guy reacts.
Faking is misdirection. So for example, with the jab, I could fake to the head, pull back and then hit the body. That's a fake, I misdirect my opponent. Head, he goes guard up, I pull
back, boom, I pop the body. I can also mix different punches. Fake, cross, right? So, I go fake, body shot. What Okubo did was he did a fake shot. So, Okubo goes for a fake shot. You see wrestlers do that
'cause they're confident, they have confident ability to shoot in.
So, when I go into my fake shot, you'll see Logan react to it down hands. So, fake shot, over hand. That's very effective,
especially used very well by strong wrestlers in mixed martial arts. They have the ability and confidence to shoot into people's legs and
they create that threat early. And so, when I see a guy react to it, it leaves them wide open for an overhead punch. All right, so that throw is interesting. So, you actually see it
both in judo and wrestling. The version that we see done
is more of a judo version because there's this pickup drop effect. That move is referred
to as a Koshi Guruma. So, from here, we have a lifting effect, cross step, and I turn my grip to here, using my hips I'm pulling my partner over creating off balancement, and this pickup and turn allows
to drop my partner down. This type of takedown
also exists in wrestling. So, in wrestling from here,
they'll go to the same position, but they'll pull the guy down and just pretty much
drag them to the floor. From here, same control,
but now with my hips, I start pulling him down
I'm going to go slow right into a similar pin in judo.
[Logan] Rear Naked Choke.
[Chad] Choke. But no hooks. – [Logan] He got out. – All right, fake right to—
So that's Okubo's thing He keeps going to body locks or doubles – Gotcha. Ooh, soccer kick to the head. – Man, he just launched him. – That's illegal, right? – Yeah. professionally, yeah. Yeah.
– We don't do that here. – I mean, back in the day, in certain fight promotions,
they allowed it, but now, no. Okay, creepy smile. All right, so he goes
real quick for a shot. He tries to get his hands
down, they block him, but he gets a wrist control. – Okay. – All right, don't know how real that is.
Where you just grab someone's
wrist and punch them, but it happened, okay? Right now, he's just
wailing, he's blocking. So, okay. Okubo checks, goes for a shot, or he's going for a bodylock or a double, and now he catches him. – [Logan] Hmm. – So what happened, okay, so
one thing that is pretty cool here is Okubo is showing a pattern, and now Kanoh sees a
pattern and he catches him. Right? If you notice in the whole
fight, Okubo keeps shooting. – Right. – So, he starts catching
on, oh okay, front suplex. Back to mount. And that's the end of the fight, fight over. Kanoh wins. That's cool, a fighter shows
a pattern, pattern, pattern, and the advanced guy, he
can recognize a pattern and catch him. So, I think they capture that concept that happens a lot in real fighting. So, I appreciate that, it's pretty cool. We see Okubo go for a takedown. That's very important
because throughout the fight, he goes for it a lot and
he'll pay dearly for it 'cause he keeps showing the
pattern of his fight style.
Basic rule for double legs, and then as you get better,
you can break this rule, it's best to win a matching stance. In the event that I try
going for a double here, there is a lot of space for
a knee to come into my face, which will lead to a knockout. If we're gonna do this safely, best stance is matching
in this is example, orthodox against orthodox. So now, whatever step I do, my head, gets in nice and
smooth to the hip there, in a shorter distance, so the chance of me
getting a knee in the face goes down, right? So, that's how we approach a double leg. Whereas I step, I level change, and I catch, and I really bend my wrist right over the knees so he can't defend so easily. I wanna create that turn
and that drop and that side, almost like I wanna pass his legs, as it comes to the floor.
First, I wanna say as someone
who is a huge anime fan, I wanna thank you for
recommending an anime fight scene, I really appreciate that. I also really appreciate
this fight scene too. There's a lot of cool stuff
that we saw together, right? A lot of modern day
reference to combat styles that are used in the combat
sport of mixed martial arts. We saw wrestling, judo, Muay Thai, boxing, and of course my favorite, Jiu-Jitsu. What I like was in the
progression of the fights, Okubo was telegraphing a
pattern that he kept doing, he would a lot of times duck in and go for a body lock or a double leg, and he was also using
feints and fakes to do that. One, I really liked that, right? 'Cause it shows the writers, their fight IQ on how combat works and how to trick the opponent. But what I also appreciate is that Kanoh picked up on the pattern, and eventually countered
and won the fight. So that progression of a
fighter doing a pattern and then a fighter
adapting to that pattern, I personally, thought that was really cool because it captured a
big concept you see a lot in fighting in general.
Well I'd say overall though, is the transitions could
have been a bit better as the fight was progressing, but it was a cool fight scene regardless, my final grade will be an Thank you for watching. Thank you for supporting. If you're interested in training with me in Jiu-Jitsu or MMA my Instagram handle is in the description below. Also make sure you support the channel. Buy these awesome shirts. Hit that subscription button,
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