Defending a bear hug from front being lifted - YouTube

guys we're gonna start working on uh level three  bear hugs again uh now we're adding in a lift so  

situation got even worse uh we got picked  up off of our feet off the ground so  

bear him from the front with our arms caught

and bear hug from the front arms free with a lift

so problem here we got lifted up in the air we  need to find ourselves back on the ground as  

quickly as possible i'm going to use the attacker  as my face to send the counter attack so what i'm  

going to try to do is stabilize myself and press  my weight into their body as they're lifting me up  

my arms are free my arms are outside around his  i'm going to try to get stabilized my heels and  

my palms on their hips on their body somewhere  i'm also going to take one leg and drive my quad  

pressing my hip forward into their body to put  resistance into them my opposite leg is gonna load  

as far back behind me as possible to send  a counter attack here to get them to loosen  

up and drop me on the on the ground my arms are  caught i can try to shift my hands into their hips  

to again stabilize as much as possible and i'm  still using that one leg i'm going to drive my  

hip and my quad as much contact as possible into  them let's just look at that real quick here  

so zach picked me up i want one leg to drive  into him as much as possible my hands are going  

to stabilize against her body as much as possible  again as we do that let's come this side please  

our opposite leg is going to load as far away as  possible from us to get as much momentum coming  

back into this knee strike to convince them  to let go of you and drop you on the ground  

once we end up back the ground whether her arms  free or arms caught it's back to the basics of  

a bear hug i'm based wide and stable my center of  gravity is low and i can get into more combatives  

and finish my fight from there so one thing you  can do to work on this is basically a single leg  

deadlift right you're going to balance on one leg  drive your heel back as far as possible behind you  

try to create a t with your body then bring that  knee forward for your counter attack strike right  

balance on one leg drive your heel back as far  as possible pull that knee forward with good  

momentum to find that groin strike soft tissue in  the stomach wherever you hit that attacker right  

hopefully that will convince them to drop  you to the ground so you have to be prepared  

to land on your feet right you're smashing them  in the groin they're probably going to let go  

you need to be ready to land on those feet if  you want to work against the ground with this  

you can just lie on your stomach driving that  one hip that one quad into the floor driving your  

opposite hip up and away and loading that knee as  high into the sky as possible boom softly lightly  

bringing that knee back down to the ground for  your counter attack but feel that pressure of  

the one leg driving into the floor while the other  hip rises off a little bit and loads that counter  

attack right important thing is pressing that  weight into their body stabilize yourself as  

much as possible and loading that counter attack  boom getting that strike getting yourself back  

in the ground once you get back on the ground  again like as we mentioned it's just a regular  

fight again boom i'm here i strike free my arms if  they're caught get into my fight finish my fight  

if you don't have a partner to work with  at home kind of hard to get lifted up here  

um so you can just work on from your feet  work that single leg deadlift oh drop down  

finish your fight with your combative shadow box  there right bear hug from the front with a lift