The 90s were great. Grunge, the early days of the internet, and no cell phones. These 90s? You’ll have to make up your own mind. This combination came courtesy of GM Tim Wakefield, but I paraphrased his document to match the style of the site. So, if there’s an error, that’s definitely where it might have come in, but I don’t think there is. Thanks again to Chris Hatch, without whom this project would have been dead in the water. It’s been great getting together and picking each others’ brains to turn words on a page into movement.
Baby Crescent – Combination 81
I thought I had posted this one already. This combination has a fairly nice flow, and has a nice Kote Gaeshi style takedown. Chris and I have been giving the combinations nicknames to help us remember which is which, and the description included the term ‘baby crescent’ which really stood out to us. Be careful practicing this one at speed – the wrist lock is a takedown, but in practical application against someone without ukemi skills, it’s a wrist break. The lock with the feet combined with the rotation tends to provide a wrist, elbow and shoulder lock.
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Right in front of our faces, Combination 97
The same seminar that gave us 96, also gives us 97. Chris and I had reverse engineered it, but why not see it from the man himself. I thought the writeup was not the most likely as it was so much shorter and simpler than usual. In the linked video, you can see GM Fred Villari perform it, and afterwards literally says ‘that’s 97’. The technique appears 21 seconds into the video, and the link should take you right to that point.
