For those looking for some legitiamte counter leg locking tools, Hayden offers some in the way of successfully escaping Eddie's entanglements until the last one. Josh has a nice counter footlock (palm to palm) at 1:31 which I'm told actually popped Eddie's foot a good bit. Josh manages to counter much of Eddie's earlier leg entanglements before Eddie can collect the top/second leg and delay him fully escaping/clearing his knee past Eddie's groin/bite ont he leg.
A similar fashion of escapes chained together can be seen in the Canuto/Eddie match: Canuto isn't always doing the "right" escape per se, but he's always chaining escapes together, fighting for his balance while using his hands to pressure the bite/control on his leg and thus managed to avoid getting popped by Eddie in their match.
The last entanglement Eddie sets up from a small half-butterfly off balance to set the bottom leg behind the knee and from there, so close to the hip, Josh doesn't have the space/distance to the knee necessary to avoid his second leg being collected. I haven't trained with Eddie since he made the move to Unity (and TBH don't know how much he's still training there) but I'd be curious to see how his game has/would evolve to take into account all the known coutners for the sankaku leg control. Guys who harass the top leg of your triangle and know enough to lift the heel are part of what early on I strayed away from the standard inside sankaku control to collect second leg to handfight/separate the feet and break. The sport is always evolving and a lot of guys still don't even peel the foot off the hip to avoid the outside heel hook reap, nor will they thumb post at the knee joint and opt instead to point toes/straighten leg and hope for the best.
A similar fashion of escapes chained together can be seen in the Canuto/Eddie match: Canuto isn't always doing the "right" escape per se, but he's always chaining escapes together, fighting for his balance while using his hands to pressure the bite/control on his leg and thus managed to avoid getting popped by Eddie in their match.
The last entanglement Eddie sets up from a small half-butterfly off balance to set the bottom leg behind the knee and from there, so close to the hip, Josh doesn't have the space/distance to the knee necessary to avoid his second leg being collected. I haven't trained with Eddie since he made the move to Unity (and TBH don't know how much he's still training there) but I'd be curious to see how his game has/would evolve to take into account all the known coutners for the sankaku leg control. Guys who harass the top leg of your triangle and know enough to lift the heel are part of what early on I strayed away from the standard inside sankaku control to collect second leg to handfight/separate the feet and break. The sport is always evolving and a lot of guys still don't even peel the foot off the hip to avoid the outside heel hook reap, nor will they thumb post at the knee joint and opt instead to point toes/straighten leg and hope for the best.
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