Erik Paulson - Heel hook from mounted

[adriansaldana]

Did you make that up "on the fly"?

[GracieFighter11]

sick technique thanks for the upload

[Fragment87]

Not the first time he got high mounted

[Snuuky69]

@tauhrahm your point is...?

[789101]

LOL .. bjj will f*ckk the sh*tt out of those people with knives .. HAHAHA !! but .. will get a blood leak .. maybe on stomach or neck .. HAHAHAHA !! but for me .. BJJ is the best !

[19thaman79]

This guy is a f*@kin genius!!!! Awesome shit.

[JL0183]

tight

[f9hunter]

erik is like the leg lock specialist lols

[thatkindofguy234]

this has to be one of the most painful submissions...someone i was sparring with did it to me :(

[LPFAN1777]

@thatkindofguy234 wow what a dick head why would he do that

[TheRapidFire94]

LMFAO Taco Bell menu HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[TheGilzam]

dude in black shirt's job sucks

[fgarza4409]

this is all good and fine in a street fight, but in my jiu jitsu class its pretty hard to escape from mount. I would like to see this done with the guy on top actually trying to stay on top.

[brucew22]

I have seen it done in class many times.

[lovemym16]

Its demonstrated too methodically you need to raise your hips push him off and throw the leg over all at the same time for it to work in a real fight but it is still a lower precentage move. however you can wind up in this postion when going for a rolling knee-bar and the guy falls on his face!

[streetthug4life]

however, the only thing that is going to save you form multiple attackers is nothing shot than having won the golden gloves in boxing, good footwork, and getting the hell out.

that buys you 2 opponents if you line them up, maybe 3 if you're a bad ass.

not muay thai where you're going to throw kicks and clinch, that's too risky against many guys, but boxing and maybe 10% elbows

[streetthug4life]

In a streetfight you're going to lose if you don't run. or are likely to lose.

If you're say, a blue belt in BJJ the factors that play on a 1 on 1 fight are cardio, wheter you can actually submit people, or top position.

his factors are wheter he's got back-up or he's got weapons, improvised or otherwise at his disposal. and how big he is.

if you're a good purple belt and above, or you're say a good wrestler with GnP or a striker, any of those is instant overkill

[tauhrahm]

In a streetfight you just slam guy on his head and it'll crack on the pavement or grab a rock and smash it up against their head. You can also spit in thier eyes. Why do I always have to here about street fighting whenever I look up grappling tecs? Yeah, if it were 1on1 then maybe i'll try to grapple but against multi-attacks or armed attackers i'll grab anything a beat the hell out of them with it or use any foul tec I can. BJJ and MMA is for sport not real streetfigting.

[iplayelectricguitar]

Or run like hell and avoid going to jail.

[sabastard]

I agree love kick boxing and bjj. but situational awareness and a glock are much better lol

[vanity81]

yea i think you go to prison if you pull out a glock in a bar fight.

[KJGould]

Wrestling and BJJ in a streetfight is useful. If there's multiple attackers and one takes you down, you've got to do your best to get back up. Wrestling and BJJ will help prevent you from being a sitting duck on the ground while the others try to kick your head in.

Then once back on your feet you can use striking to weakspots like eyes throat groing knees and shin, and counter wrestling to stay up, then look for openings to flee. Then my advice would be to have good cardio to outrun them lol.

[Jitsurass2]

I've had the honor to meet and train with Erik and let me tell you.  If u came across him in the street and try him, he will win. Trust me.

[oopalonga]

@tauhrahm amen. And who the hell street fights anyway? So effing dangerous. You don't know what people have on them.

[Mider999]

@tauhrahm Dude if you hit a guy with a rock and kill him your probably going to go to jail for murder. As for spitting in there eyes that wont blinde them for long. I rather do limb destruction on them. Were you break an arm or leg or even a chop to the collor bone to break it.

[Mider999]

@tauhrahm @tauhrahm Dude if you hit a guy with a rock and kill him your probably going to go to jail for murder. As for spitting in there eyes that wont blinde them for long. I rather do limb destruction on them. Were you break an arm or leg or even a chop to the collor bone to break it. Also in some states and citys as lame as it sounds its illegal for you to hit someone with a weapon unless they also have one.........go figure.

[adamfishes]

@tauhrahm Consider this...u think ur a streetfightin tough guy, you prolly never practice anything fight related but think you can just ktfo the person or hit them with a rock, kick them etc, but wut will u do when someone takes you down and breaks your knee?

If you say this isnt real world go to brazil, how do you think BJJ came about?

this is all real world applicable

if your so bad go to an mma gym and challenge their best grappler

bet the smallest guy in my gym would whoop you ..135 lbs

[DikkiSeamen]

@tauhrahm i so agree with you...bjj and mma however can be used in street fights, can better a person's chances, but it only works for 1 on 1 situations...but as you said in multi-attacks its freaking useless especially if your submitting a person while another dude kicks you in the head or the like...RESPECT TO YOUR COMMON SENSE!

[pocketfullofstones]

@tauhrahm Slamming a guy on his head? Sounds like wrestling to me.

[DaSolidAce]

@tauhrahm lmao i agree with u to a certan degree i actually used this in a street fight when i was losing n it actually help me win it depends on the person ability and experience but i would never do this while fighting more than one person

[TheDotComKid84]

@tauhrahm your an idiot! just like rorion gracie said "there is no way to effectively address multiple attackers" what are you going to do if 2 people attack simultaneously from the front and back?

[Romaniandick1994]

@TheDotComKid84 Throw my poket knife at one of them and beat the shit out of the other one. I like BJJ but sometimes you have to fight dirty.

[TheDotComKid84]

@Romaniandick1994 sry dude that wouldnt work unless your an expert with a knife.

[Romaniandick1994]

@TheDotComKid84 I trained with knives from 7 years (I remember stealing knives from the kitchen and training on trees) but you're right, this wouldn't work because I don't have a knife with me every time I leave house so I have to rely on my 9 years of training in box (I can take a lot of hits and I'm fast but I've never beaten more then two people at once)...people say krav maga works but I doubt it. Anyway, now I try to find a BJJ dojo.

[An0niempje]

@tauhrahm You have a point, grappling is not always the best idea on the streets, but it is useful to know something. Just like you won't be throwing much high kicks, but being able to throw one can be massively useful.

You'll almost never need these 'full' locks out of which a person can't escape without breaking something, but the 'half' locks are very good to keep situations from escalating.

[Malk64]

@tauhrahm MMA includes Boxing and Muay Thai.

Are you implying Boxing and Muay Thai aren't useful in a street fight against multiple opponents? lol.

[ruebuscm]

@tauhrahm It's useful if you end up on your back, I'd say.

[acidkid1984]

yeah im an ex wrestler and i absolutely trounce over the lower belts but my advantage is taken away when i fight the upper belts. my weakness is that i think going on my back is a bad thing and give them my back because RNC's dont exist in wrestling. i think this is why frank mir is gonna be a tough competitor to beat. he is a jui jitsu guy in a class full of wrestlers. they are gonna have trouble beating him if they are not at least a purple belt

[whitestrand]

Well in MMA, wrestlers don't usually go for submissions against BJJ guys

[tiecuando]

An attack when you're mounted? I'm such a noob, I don't expect this stuff. Is there anything else you can do when you're mounted?

[futuresartech]

Slicers!

[tiecuando]

Cool! :)

[piggypoo]

I like this move. But I don't think many people have the mentality to stay calm and perform this when punches are raining.

[Tom7Sawyer]

Since grappling doesn't allow punches, I don't see the problem.

[piggypoo]

no no, I was talking about a real-life situation. I saw in an episode of human weapon that the marines taught the heel hook. So...I suppose it can be used in real life, right?

[mooki69]

I wouldn't look to mlitary combatives for h2h effectiveness

[lolll666]

if you practice it while someone is allowed to punch you, you will learn. i wouldn't really go for leg locks in a self-defense situation anyway, i'd take someone down and pass to mount and choke them out

[r5r5]

Well, in a self-defense situation it is better to avoid doing any unnecessary damage. Being that the heel hook can potentially break both the ankle and knee vs. temporarily shutting the brain (choke) it is a better idea for this reason.

[ghiacciolo007]

because your judo teacher watch this video

[Pelisek4]

i am learning judo..here is something same.

[MPA2000]

it is not a martial art, just because lug heads like you want to say it is.

[ravenTJ1979]

It is.

[Silverblur88]

how do you define a martial art? Someone with five years of wrestling under his belt has a huge advantage of someone who doesn't in a fight, and with a little tweaking a decent wrestler can beat balckbelts. In my mind, that makes it a martial art.

[osiruslife]

A wrestler with 5 years will not beat a black belt in jiu jitsu lol or a brown for that matter

[toddvosseahawks]

Dude, no way a "tweaked" wrestler comes close to beating a high level grappler...you're crazy and probably a wrestler..

[phillipshyers]

I've done both... and yes it takes a high level grappler to beat a skilled wrestler. Wrestlers have great take downs and balance that will dominate a low level bjj BUT they can't hold up to an advanced grappler.

[sarakavanagh34]

ive also done abit of both, and my opionion is wrestling is a more primitive way to go about it. great for a real street fight, very fast get the ground and pound and get the fuck out of there. a BJJ guy would school the wrestler in the ring, but you gotta watch out going for a submission in a street fight, its a tiny bit slower and then some one may sucker punch you or a million other things. Thats my view on it, agree? disagree? this is my girlfriends acount haha

[phillipshyers]

I agree! Most of the fighting i've done has been street fights and the more simple the better. (ground and pound) It's just so tough sometimes for me to compromise position to go for a submission. But i love having a mixture of both. But i do agree in the ring the wrestler as at a major disadvantage.

[shang72]

totally agree. a street fight is just a different story. i love bjj but to use it in a street fight... dont think its gonna work

[TeaJ82]

Silverblur, I've got to agree with you 100. The whole "my style is better than your style" argument is utter nonsense. Having a 'black belt' in BJJ doesn't mean your Royce Gracie. Vinny Magalhaes is a highly regarded BJJ world champion. And yet he got his head nearly taken off by Ryan Bader, a "tweaked" wrestler.

[TeaJ82]

BTW. Nice vid. I like all the different variations you went over to secure the heel hook.

[ziggedr4y]

the way I d this move is to bridge slowly or try to roll them ect it doesnt matter but then ill hold their hips up and drop my body to get the knee in. its actually a very good defence I use it all the time even on guys significantly heavier than me. its difficult to finish with the heel hook on the higher belt lvs but its still the one of the most effective escapes ive found. another variation involves sliding both knees in turning the opponents mount into a (sightly awkward) butterfly guard

[a3bora]

great technique for escaping being mounted and attack combo!

[zencaper]

There called drills people. If you don't practice something, you have no technique.

Whither they work or not shouldn't be the question. You need to have something in your pocket to pull out.

[MPA2000]

Question: is this a wrestling move or martial art? If it is wrestling then that means it is only meant to cause pain, if it is Martial Art that means the intent is to break or tear something.

[PsYc0tIkDrEaM]

that really doesn't make sense.... at all xP.

[omar2000089]

a heel hook will fuck your leg up....its painful and will break and tear..

[shoopdog92]

its more a submissen move to cuz pain to cause ur enamy to tape out its used by alot of UFC fighters i dont know of any orgine of where it came from

[demolayakp]

its made to cause both pain and to break. a heelhook could either dislocate the knee or break the ankle, or what bas rutten did to his opponent in one of his fights, snapped the shin into two.

[taekwon3000]

LOL Who is the idiot that gave you a thumbs down?

[lifeenjoi]

wrestling is a martial art. one of the oldest.

[BrodyLewczuk]

its good but its impossible to get when a guy that is acctaly decent has u mounted

[tcoc89]

not really i hit this on purple belts although i do it a little different in a way that requires flexibility but its def a good move

[rohaimie]

This is good! Thanks Erik

[stevenjonis]

i never fell out f the mount because someone bridged me isnt bridging just to create space and not to shake someone of?

[adamsbeer]

another submission clip that looks great but is really just for show, i dont think this would ever work. wayyyy to hard to hook his legs.

[bigflamer]

Awesome! Paulson is amazing.

[cburcinc]

I'm trying to make this work for me. I'm working on the speed of it. I find if I put both my hands on his RIGHT anterior hip (the hip under which I will raise my left shin) when I bridge, it increased my ability to get my left shin under.

Any other pointers ?

[Hechatonchery]

I guess tihs is a bit harder, if the guy on your chest is punching you in the face as hard as he can...

[noahlang123]

I'll trust a shooto champion when he gives advice on submissions... especially when he corners and trains Josh Barnett, the premiere unsigned heavyweight mma fighter in the world.

[generallobster]

do heel hooks work on a person wearing boots? just curious.

[ECWNET]

yes, if not better, seems to be easier to do if they have larger heels (shoes achieve this)

[atenneso]

They are even more effective on people with shoes on. Heel hooks attack the knee and the boots stops the ankle from giving way thus more torque on the knee

[TIMURA03]

this will only work against a white belt or a drunken blue to black belter.

[brucew22]

moron

[TIMURA03]

likewise stupid

[brucew22]

come to LA and train at Erik's school. I want to see you get subbed with the same lock by all of his students.

[bsmith009]

He is just trying to say that a heel hook is relatively easy to defend against, if you know what you are doing. Sweet technique against someone who doesnt though.

[stevemarce1988]

Erik is the man

[tldevilsh]

of course its hard to do that when your mounted, but its ateleast +1 if you know it

[papersamurai]

this one actualy works pretty wel,it just depends on the moment ofcourse.

[brick015]

Erik, your awsome with great instruction and deffently skilled. I would love the chance to roll with you. If your ever in san diego.

[cristhianbelmonte]

mamalon muy chido me gusta su tecnica

[csanchez50]

Search Erik Paulson Highlight. He can and has applied these techniques very effectively.

[housevenue]

i wanna see u in UFC and see if u can apply what ur teaching... :)

[infantileretard]

hes been there and done that... paulson is old school

[rocknroll1984]

if you new anything about mma you would know that erik paulson has been fighting before the ufc ever came around. and he has used these techniques in fights many times.

[maxtraining2008]

stupid_ Paul Figth in the UFC before, He train Josh Barnet

[USFighter]

The thing I dont like is that the guy is on top is not going full. or even 50% its harder then it looks.

[captpinchcard]

yeah it is , thats like trying to loosen a bolt with your fingers

[therhythm]

True, but learning the technique will still aid in your knowledge. It might also catch someone off guard.

[stayhidden]

What you're saying is absolutely true, but let's face it... If you're mounted, all of your options suck.

I think this is more of an opportunistic submission that you can try off of a failed bridge escape than something to go for, per se.

[stryme1]

GOOD STUFF

[kaligator619er]

cool

[accord50]

very nice good post.

[MMAsage82]

I have trained with Sensei Paulson. He's as brutal as he is skilled with his subs. Good post.