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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bishmon" data-source="post: 4090242" data-attributes="member: 56176">Actually, yeah, you've summed it up pretty well.There's two common ways to 'trip' someone in a mixed martial arts fight. A fighter can try and shoot for the legs, essentially almost diving head-first towards his opponent's legs trying to gets his arms around a leg or two and trip him up. What makes this impractical is that it's relatively easy to defend with a sprawl, like so:<a href="http://www.budoseek.net/articles/double_leg/image023.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.budoseek.net/articles/double_leg/image023.jpg</a>What makes it even more impractical, though, is that it leaves the attacker open to follow-up attacks, most notably chokes, punches, strikes, and devastating knees.The other way to try a takedown, probably the more common way, is to first grapple the guy. The attacker closes the distance usually behind strikes of his own in order to get next to the defender and he clinches with him (<a href="http://www.grapplearts.com/Images/PhotoOfTheWeek/KOTC-rebecca1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.grapplearts.com/Images/PhotoOfTheWeek/KOTC-rebecca1.jpg</a> note: this isn't the exact clinch an attacker would work for a takedown from, but if gives you an idea). From that clinch, he can try a judo hip toss, a simple trip, or grabbing a leg before dropping down for a safer shot on the defender's legs. The point is, for these 'trip' attempts, the attacker is already grappling the defender.So yeah, grappling a guy is easier than tripping a guy. In fact, fighters often have to do the former just to try and do the latter.</blockquote>

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