Doing a Scissor Take Down in Sambo Martial Arts

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"STEPHEN KOEPFER: On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Stephen Koepfer of New York Combat Sambo in New York City, and today we're going to show you Sambo combinations. Okay, in this Sambo combination, we're going to do a scissor takedown into several different types of ankle locks, and these ankle lock combinations are for the attacker in the instance that one submission doesn't work, you can flow right to the next and if that one doesn't work, you can flow right to the next. So, we're going to start with the basic scissor takedown. The leg on the inside, our supporting leg goes to the outside, we're going to wrap his near leg from the inside in this motion and we're going to take him backwards with the scissor takedown. Once I land, I have this setup and if I can, I control his leg. Now, I might want to try for ankle lock here but he may not make that so easy for me so I can easily transition to a second submission toe hold from here against my hip. If that doesn't work, if he's too strong, I can transition to the heel hook from here. And that's very important, the heel hook. A lot of people emphasized the twist in the heel hook, very important to emphasize the pull back. You put your wrist in his Achilles and you pull straight back."