The Submission That Could Have Ended Everything. 🤯
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An athlete reveals the terrifying calculus behind executing one of the sport's most dangerous openings. Placing one's entire structure on the neck to secure a finishing hold is a gamble few truly understand. The sheer commitment required is evident, as is the stark recollection of a near-catastrophe
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And I'll do that by putting my whole basically all my weight onto my neck. Uh, and so if someone Mike Isertell's size decides they're going to drop down and forward, right, uh, you know, they they literally could break my neck and it's just a risk that I'm willing to take to try to hit those submissions, right? So, I I take risks, right, in my jiu-jitsu, and [laughter] that match could end very very badly for me, but it's a match I'd be willing to take, you know, and I've done I've done that same thing up on my neck. I've actually had to one point in time, I realized the person was going to come down on me and I had enough time because they they were slow enough to to shoot myself underneath their legs. So I shot my head underneath her legs to to to avoid, you know, getting my spine busted in half and my neck, you know, shattered. So I I did, but that was a white belt. That is not someone who's a black belt. That was a white belt who decided he's going to drop all his weight down on me and thankfully he's slow, right? I can't imagine with the speed of someone at Brown, black, you know, even upper purple bell, right? I'm not gonna have the kind of time to react.
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