The Foot Sweep Thread 2.0

beatbum - nahh, the Lyoto sweep on Sokoudjou sucked. The Makoto Takimoto throws, on the otherhand, are freaking beautiful!



Like an ass-kicking ballet!


 I love this sweep he pulled on Trigg, even if he got reversed right away:




i like Trigg's takedown more

OP voted up.  Also:





http://i43.tinypic.com/afhdo6.gif



http://www.ufc-gifs.com/ufc94/machida_takedown1.gif



http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb296/smoogyfc/lyotopennsweep01.gif



http://i19.tinypic.com/6tfrkg3.gif



http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p175/the_chosen_one1/lyotothrow.gif

you just can't beat Lyoto to the punch. can't be done.

beatbum - nahh, the Lyoto sweep on Sokoudjou sucked. The Makoto Takimoto throws, on the otherhand, are freaking beautiful!


His throws are great sure, but I don't see how that makes Machida's sweep suck. The timing and coordination is a thing of beauty. I don't know much about foot sweeps, can you drop some knowledge on me and let me know what exactly was bad about it? It appeared to be slick as shit to me.

it just looked sloppy and uncoordinated like he sort-of stuck his foot out and Sok stepped wrong, and ended up tripping.

What Machida did to soko was more like the way you take the supporting leg out in muay thai than a real foot-sweep, but both are very effective.

I hate the way Machida punches with his left when soko throws his right kick though. That shit can get you hit a lot harder by the kick. You should punch with the right towards a right kick IMO, hiding the side he's kicking to. Different styles, or maybe Machida was just setting up the sweep

 Not a foot sweep, but...




ttt

More of a scissor sweep, but meh