In the main event of Heat Sports 2 on December 7, 2013, in Essex, England, UFC vet David Lee tapped Norway’s Thomas Hytten with what was announced as a Mother’s Milk submission. Hytten, who had been fighting professionally since 1998, looked like he had never seen it before. He never fought again.
The Mother’s Milk Submission in MMA
This is the ending of Lee vs. Hytten:
The Mother’s Milk Submission in Grappling
Much more recently, at a NAGA event in Albany, New York, the unusual submission was again successful.
How to do The Mother’s Milk Submission
If you want to learn the Mother’s Milk submission, there’s none better than the man who knows every submission, Erik Paulson.
Here’s another how-to breakdown.
Truth About The Mother’s Milk Submission
It’s an old smother technique from Catch Wrestling, that works by preventing the opponent from breathing. As you can see, it can work. The first and most vital step for a man who seeks to perfect this technique is, of course, to develop moobs.
In seriousness though, it’s a technique that works best on someone who is gassed, smaller, and less skilled. Still, every once in a while you come across someone who has developed solid fundamentals and set-ups for it, and at the least, even in failing, it sets up another submission.
Further, the sheer stupidity of it is fun. Not wrist-locking-an Aikido-black-belt fun, but still, it’s fun. And, finally, yes, if you are involved in MMA or grappling, it is your sacred duty to tap via wrist lock any Aikido black belt who comes into the gym 😉
