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She had no concept of when the technique ended and me trying to protect her from falling on the ground started.

So when I swept her, I held her up and she started kicking wildly, with kicks that landed near the groin while I was trying to control her fall. In her mind she felt like she could defend against the sweep (aka, the sweep doesn't work).

SWEEP THE LEG JOHNNY HOW TO

Here's an example, I was training a female student (who is a hyper teen) with how to do sweeps, so I performed a sweep on her. In other cases me trying to control my opponents fall may put me at risk of my opponent taking advantage of me. The reason why is because depending on the type of sweep that is done, there is no opportunity for me to control anything but the force of the sweep. In competition, I wouldn't want to make a rule where I would have to control my opponents fall. The rule for that type of sweep is, if it seems that your partner isn't going to be able to avoid the sweep in time, stop the sweep. This allows us to train our long range sweeps. We also do a riskier form of training where we sweep with the understanding that our partner will be able to avoid the sweep. Holding the person and controlling the fall is the only way to keep a training partner from being hurt. These types of sweeps are often illegal in non- MMA type competitions.Ĭlick to expand.We do the same when we do certain sweeps. The danger with some of the sweeps is that there's no way to really predict how the person will fall. Jake Mace on youtube shattered his arm after his sparring partner swept him. The reality of the sweep is that it has great potential to mess you up big time. The idea of a 'Gentleman Fight' has always been a part of American Culture for which I blame the British for. In the 80's MMA ground in pound would be something that only bad guys would have done.

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'Sweep the leg' in that movie was less about sweeping the leg and more about being honorable and had nothing to do with the true nature of Karate. There was a lot of shows and movies that promoted and shaped the values and morals of young people. This is also a time where some of the martial arts systems picked up a 'zen / respect the world' stereotype that they didn't originally have. Back then positive values and characteristics were things that society was really into.

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The 1980's was full of 'being honorable' where the good guy always took the high road to victory. It was made during a time where heroic qualities were of value. Sweep the Leg Johnny also briefly reformed for a benefit gig in Chicago near the end of 2005.Click to expand.You have to take into context of the culture when the movie was made. Mitch Cheney is in a project called GREENESS.

Chris Daly joined a group with members of June of 44 and Hoover called Just A Fire, and currently plays in Haymarket Riot. Steve Sostak and John Brady also played in the band ZZZZ, which released one album in 2005, Palm Reader. The album featured re-recordings of older songs as well as new material.Īfter the breakup of the band, Steve Sostak and Chris Daly collaborated on a short lived band called Check Engine. Guitarist Mitch Cheney of Rumah Sakit then joined the band for their final LP Going Down Swingin, released in 2002. Their third album Sto Cazzo (an obscenity in Italian) followed in 2000. was mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London. The band then signed to Southern Records for their second LP Tomorrow We Will Run Faster, released in 1999. Following this, Matt Alicea left and was replaced by John Brady, formerly of Spanakorzo and Swing Kids. In 1997, the band released 4.9.21.30 on Divot Records. The two relocated to Chicago after graduating, where they recruited drummer Scott Anna and bass guitarist Matt Alicea. Sweep the Leg Johnny was fronted by alto saxophonist and vocalist Steve Sostak, who formed the band after meeting guitarist Chris Daly while the two attended college at the University of Notre Dame. The name is a reference to a line in the film The Karate Kid. Sweep the Leg Johnny was a Chicago-based math rock band in existence from 1996 till 2002.

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