How do you flip someone over?

Question

Have you seen where people grab someone's arm and they flip them over that way? How do you do it?

Answer 1

try this against a cooperative partner and see how it works in practice. (you have to get good before you do it against someone who is struggling.)

1) take hold of your partner's right arm with your left hand on their wrist and your right hand on their tricep (back of the arm)

2) turn your back to them, but stand slightly to their right (just a little)

3) this is the hard part: pull them into you by the arm hard, bringing their arm up and over your shoulder to the point where their armpit is right on your shoulder. Bend your knees while keeping your back fairly straight.  slam your butt into their thighs right as they are about to make contact with you.  This should knock their legs out from under them and make them put their weight on your hip.  

4) Straighten your legs a moment after impact.  This will lift your opponent off the ground (unless they are a whole lot taller than you)  At the same time, pull their arm straight toward the ground like you were chopping wood.

Ideally this move is done fast and explosive.  It isn't easy to do, but when you do it right your opponent will flip over your shoulder or shoulder blade and be slammed onto his or her back on the mat.

Go to youtube and type in shoulder throw for a some good videos on this technique.

Answer 2

I would highly recommend that you enlist the help of someone with a background in Judo.  Even if you have a very trusting friend (aka guinea pig) and a nice soft spot for them to land, its very likely your friend doesn't know how to fall properly --- yes, there's a proper way to fall.  I'm sure you don't want to hurt your friend practicing something you don't know much about (unless, of course, its a little brother or sister).

But, if you have a willing person (one who doesn't mind the thought of possible pain and discomfort), the best thing to start with is a simple hip-throw.  For one, it's easier to practice for the novice and will also help you protect your practice dummy.

You can square up to your 'dummy' like you're about to do a ballroom dance...  accept, while you're facing the 'dummy', you grab their right wrist with your left hand (overhand grip) and with your right hand, just put it on the 'dummy's' left hip... this is your starting position.

Next, cross your right foot to the "inside" of your 'dummy's' right foot, lining your big toe up to his/her right toe -- as you're doing this, slide your right hand (which is on the 'dummy's' waste) to the back of their belt and grab hold of their britches like a potato sack -- as you're doing this step-by-step, you should notice that you're turning into your opponent, so, as you're doing this, LOWER YOUR HIPS so that your hips are LOWER than your opponents (the absolute key to any throw).

The reason you want your Big Toe to line up on the INSIDE of your opponents big toe, is so that when you pivot your hips low and underneath their hips (roughly their thigh/groin area), you can then "mirror" their right foot by swiveling your Heel to line up with their heel (your left foot shoot naturally slide close to your right foot about shoulder width or slightly less) --- and as soon as your heel lines up, you buck them up by straightening your legs (driving your heel into the ground) and lifting them up on your hip and - and at the same time - pulling up on their britches with your right hand that's holding the back of their belt.

The "bucking" motion is almost as if you're just trying to hit their thigh with your butt.  You can laugh at that - it creates a funny mental picture, but you'll probably remember it better that way.  It doesn't have to be hard -- just enough to kind of shift their legs out from under them -- it really shouldn't take much no matter how big they are, as long as your hips are lower than theirs... period.

Do it slow and just hold the 'dummy' (aka the friend you dooped to try this) up on your hip without rotating to throw them on the ground.  Keep your feet shoulder width apart so that both legs are equally distributing the weight (because BALANCE is essential to good technique of a throw).  

Once you can go from the starting position and successfully and smoothly pivot at a controlled speed into your practice dummy and lift them onto your hip and hold him/her there with only holding the back of their britches, you can do it at any speed... and actually throw them to the ground from there.

You may want to just balance your friend on your hip while holding the back of their pants to begin with -- just to feel how easy it is to support up to 3 or 4 times your weight by just balancing someone on your hip...

Good Luck!

Answer 3

i wish i knew so i could do that