Single Leg Takedown

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Key principles

• Get the leg high and tight to your chest — a leg held low at arm's length is a leg you will lose.
• Chest up with your head pressed into the inside of their hip (the pressure point for running the pipe); letting your head drift to the outside of the captured leg is the most common single-leg error and gets you crushed by the whizzer.
• Do not out-muscle the captured leg — change their balance instead: run the pipe (hug the leg, head into the hip, walk a half circle to the side), or attack the base leg directly with an inside trip or ankle pick.
• If the finish stalls, change direction — the single leg is a series of attacks in different directions, not one big pull.

Common mistakes

• Holding the leg away from your body with straight arms.

  Why it failsThey whizzer, spin, or hop away, and you lose the leg and often the position.

From this position

• Ankle Picktakedown→
• Arm Dragtakedown→