Once the leg is on the shoulder and the lockdown is stretching out the other leg, this is the electric chair which can be used to submit your opponent or lead to a sweep which provides great control.Ĭan the lockdown cause injury? Absolutely. Next comes the whip down where you stretch the lockdown out and angle off to the side, at the same time your arms are pushing your opponent’s triceps and under hooking their leg. You want to have movement in your lockdown and create certain angles to off balance your opponent. Generally, once you attain the lockdown from half guard you use us leg position and momentum to whip the lockdown and your opponent’s leg into the air, this is called the whip up. The lockdown can be used within a sequence of moves called the whip up, whip down and eventually leading to the electric chair submission or sweep. What Bravo was able to do is revolutionize the position and add a series of moves from the half guard using the lockdown to gain sweeps and submissions on would be opponents. I have myself seen the same position appear in old judo books and even the Tao of Jeet Kune Do written by non other then Bruce Lee. The lockdown name was given by Bravo to make sure everyone in the 10th planet system could talk intelligently about the moves and position but it isn’t a new concept. Eddie has written several books which have featured several moves along with the lockdown position and the sweeps and submissions that can come from it. This technique was made famous by 10th Planet jiu-jitsu founder and Jean Jaques Machado black belt Eddie Bravo. ![]() ![]() If you are not familiar with the lock down it is a leg weave position where you use both of your legs to inter twine your opponent’s leg from half guard. Many people feel that is too much of a dangerous technique to practice on a regular basis and it can cause very serious injury to the knee. ![]() Many people outside of the 10th planet system believe the lockdown or the scorpion as they call it in Brazil can cause injury.
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