Karate Lessons: Hook Up the Body

Video Transcript

"We're going to go ahead and hook up with the body. Sometimes multi fighters when they fight, or even boxers themselves when they get tired, they end up hooking up just like this. This might seem like nothing to you, but quite frankly, in this forward situation, this is a good way to get a rest. If you cannot go on for the next fight seconds, it's a good way to go ahead and recharge for at least five seconds and then when the referee breaks you on, you'll go ahead and fight a little bit longer. Now in a real life situation, if you were to get tired and change in, right here, bam, you hook up underneath the armpits. You might even want to like go ahead, give yourself a nice clap and hold on to the person and then go for a throw from the clench. The clench is a very, very vital thing in the UFC matches and Mix Martial Arts matches in general. If you pay attention, the clench is very important. You see what will happen, we're going to go ahead and do the light match over here, I could strike, bam, she could block, and then from there, I could hook up, hook up strong, and then if she was much bigger I will go ahead and give myself a clap. When you clap in the back, you do not, you do not have the thumbs placed out. You have the thumbs with the five fingers and you're hooking like this. Thumbs are very vital; not good, good. And that's how you clench."