# Fight Breakdown: Takedown Strategy, Left High Kick and Body Knee - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2094137528131490001 - Source account: [@TitleFightMedia](https://x.com/TitleFightMedia) - Source language: Japanese - Target language: English - Duration: 2:53 - Published: 2026-08-31 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/ja/%E8%A9%A6%E5%90%88%E3%82%92%E6%8C%AF%E3%82%8A%E8%BF%94%E3%82%8B-%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%80%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E7%8B%99%E3%81%84%E3%81%A8%E5%B7%A6%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81%AE%E3%83%9C%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E8%86%9D.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee) - I think I was calm this time. At the end, you went for a takedown. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=3) - You did, yeah. Right. This was an assignment from the coaches. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=6) This time, they wanted me to incorporate some grappling into the exchanges. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=12) It was more that it wasn't just about this fight. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=15) When I show it in the future, they want me to experience those kinds of exchanges in the UC too. [0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=21) That was the idea, and they told me to go for the tackle, so I went in, no matter what. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=25) I went in at a pretty good time, but they reacted well. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=28) - Surprisingly. Oh, I see. - Did they stuff it? [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=30) They stuffed it. But with that, I pinned them against the wall and threw elbows and things like that. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=36) I was also targeting the knees, and that was one of the goals, - so I did that properly too. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=41) The elbow was close. It was almost there. [0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=44) - Yeah. It was there. Honestly, I felt I could get the takedown easily, but there wasn't much time left, and Kanahara-san was telling me to get the takedown, but I thought I wanted to conserve some energy, so I figured it was fine not to get it. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=61) Honestly, I could've gotten it easily, - I think. Yeah. [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=64) You weren't even out of breath, - were you? Like, at all. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=65) Not at all. I only got tired during the warm-up mitt work. [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=69) I had hardly even broken a sweat, - so I wasn't tired at all. Yeah. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=73) Then in the second round, - at 34 seconds. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=76) Right, in the second round, during the interval, Kanahara-san said, "You can close the distance, you can get in close." [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=84) I had also read their attacks, so I thought I'd finish them and closed the distance. [1:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=90) Then it was a straight into a left high kick. [1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=93) That was one of the attacks I was aiming for. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=95) Anyway, I'm pretty good with kicks. I've used those combinations a lot before, and it landed flush. [1:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=105) And, um, probably the temple is really effective here. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=108) The jaw, the tip of the chin, and this temple area are really effective, but I really went for it right here, here and around the eye, and landed a full-force clean hit. [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=118) And after that, knees to the body. I’d decided to do that - from the start. [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=123) - You’d decided that? Well, actually, um, rather than after I’d hurt him, I wanted to get a takedown and drive a knee into his body to drop him. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=131) That was what I was planning to do, but I figured this was good enough. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=134) - It was just right. [2:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=137) Man, that was incredible. He couldn’t get back - up at all. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=142) That really hurt him, right? I think the calf kicks probably did a lot of damage too. [2:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=145) I hurt his calf pretty badly too. And from the first round, I made him focus on the body. [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=151) Then I made him wary of attacks from the right, and then I threw the left high kick, so I’d already laid a lot of solid groundwork for it, so I thought it’d be hard for him to react. [2:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=168) Honestly, I probably could’ve got him with a body shot too, but… [2:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/CZE435Vdbe9R/en/fight-breakdown-takedown-strategy-left-high-kick-and-body-knee?t=170) I’m glad I went with the left high kick.