Doing a Knee Strike 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 knee strike to a takedown and we're going to start with a knee strike to the belly from a grip. We'll start with a basic grip behind the collar sleeve. In Combat Sambo, you can grip and strike; kinda like hockey, right? So, we're working our knees from here, the rear leg. Boom! I'm going to use this to set up a throw. Knee and then I'm going to do a sacrifice throw where I sit beneath him, kick him over and roll into mount. Now, we'll do it at real time. One, two, three. Okay, so, again, important to always control your opponent after the throw. In this case, you roll over into mount, keep your weight down and you're going to start working your ground and pound here. Okay?"