For over a decade, I’ve had mixed feelings about the body fold takedown. I’d seen it taught a few different ways, and only recently do I feel like I’ve figured it out. Part of it has been teaching it, and seeing how so many of my students struggled.

I’ve taken private lessons with my instructor to go over this one technique many times. He’d always say how a good clinch is what makes it work, whether your partner is smaller or bigger.

For me, here’s what I needed to understand:

In the clinch, we want to weigh down our partner. But where people get it wrong is they hang on them. Instead, we should push the partner down into the ground, like driving a pole into the ground.

I made a video about this. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJDvog9ROpW/