Technique question:
Can someone breakdown the Mark Hall takedown? I've watched it a half dozen times and I'm still not sure what happened.
Hall shoots, with his unique "shoot onto your own side stomach / oblique" shot for an ankle that he does in freestyle often ..... And Crutchmer immediately counters and goes for Hall's ankle ...
.... Then Hall pops up, appears poised, and it's just a blur for me there....
What did Hall do from there to score the takedown?
To me, it seems like Hall was stuck on the side of Crutchmer, but he gained control somehow and was rewarded with two.
A "Houdini Act" for sure - I think I'm going to watch that exact exchange another dozen times until I figure it out. Lol
I'll try, though the angle I have is to Hall's back, so some of this is interpretation ...
First: Hall established control when he had the near leg hooked, put his hips over Crutchmer's, and had control over Crutchmer's torso by driving down/forward with the shallow far half (though wrist control would've worked too). How he got there is the question.
Hall took a terrible shot. Crutchmer easily re-shot and got Hall's right leg on a low head inside single. As Crutchmer went to lift Hall, he got his head under Hall's leg.
SImultaneously Hall stepped in with his left leg and (as best as I can tell) put his left foot between Crutchmer's legs -- this is probably not recommended technique because he then had no leverage points, and he risked giving Crutchmer the 2nd leg. Saving grace was: Hall also reached down, grabbed Crutchmer's right ankle, and pulled it outside -- took away Crutchmer's ability to lift. I suspect Hall also used his right leg to force Crutchmer's head down, hard.
This forced Crutchmer off his knees and onto all fours (kinda), with his head planted on the mat under Hall's right leg, his right hand trapped under Hall's hip, and his left hand way outside on Hall's ankle (trying to lift Hall's leg to free his head). Hall was seated, left leg between Crutchmer's legs, right hand free to the outside, can't see his left hand but it's draped across Crutchmer's back, underhooking the left arm or maybe a very shallow far half.
Here Crutchmer makes a mistake: if he drops his right hip onto Hall's left leg, he at worst gets a stalemate, and maybe even gets the takedown if he can free his right hand. Instead he keeps his hips off the mat and slips his head out from under Hall's leg -- great, except he kept his head on the mat and lost his grip on the ankle. Hall swung his right leg around while driving Crutchmer down and forward with his left arm.
As soon as Hall got his right foot to the outside and pushed off with it, that drove his hips up and over Crutchmer's -- that's the classic "wrong leg in" takedown position.
All of that happened in about 5 sec.
