Range and Clinch Entry Playbook: Three Fights, Six Doors, and the Grip Hierarchy

Mat Manual companion guide to "Range Is Three Fights: The Kicking Game, the Pocket, and the Clinch." Print it. The article maps the geography. This book drills it: each range specified, the doors between ranges as entry and exit systems, the clinch's grip hierarchy and turn mechanics, and the sparring formats that install range reading at fight speed.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Stance: ______________ Ruleset you fight under: ______________

SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ☐ Clinch work is neck-aware work. Turns and off-balancing are applied with control; no drill in this book yanks a partner's head or neck. Any neck complaint ends the round, full stop. ☐ Knees in drilling are placed, not driven, unless both partners are equipped (body protectors) and the drill's intensity is agreed. The body learns position from placed knees as well as from hard ones; it learns injuries only from the hard ones. ☐ Sparring formats in Part 8 are fenced: the range restrictions are the rules of the game, and breaking them to "win" a drill forfeits the round. The games train geography; ego is not a scoring category. ☐ Elbows in the pocket drills are thrown to agreed targets at agreed power — for most gyms, elbows in sparring are shadowed or pulled entirely. This book assumes your gym's elbow policy and does not soften it. ☐ Dump and sweep finishes from the clinch are taught with breakfall competence as the entry requirement, exactly as in the throwing arts.

Part 1: Your Measurements (Fill In, Then Drill Until They Are Senses)