Sunday, July 1, 2007

You will undoubtedly come across several techniques in our instruction that you will choose to add on to your ten major techniques. Our advice is that you become excellent at performing ten to twenty techniques, rather than to know fifty and just be mediocre executing them. It may take only several minutes to learn a technique but it takes a couple hours of practice each week on all that you've learned to eventually master the moves so that they come naturally without having to think about them.
Your fifth technique is an arm bar and throw from an X-block. When your attacker attempts to strike, push or grab, you perform an X-block and grab his wrist with your left hand. You then bring your right leg around and quickly step behind his arm placing the forearm of your right arm behind his elbow. Then push his arm down locking it and you step behind his ankle with your right foot. Next, put your right hand under his chin and throw him backward. (In the video the student is moved to give you a better view of the throw)

Now that you've learned the standing arm bar, you can get into that technique from a same hand grab, two hand grab and cross hand grab by performing the X-block after the grab. When your wrist is grabbed from his hand closest to your wrist, you will move the wrist from your other hand under his wrist forming an X with your wrists. Grab his wrist with the hand that you placed under his wrist and rotate his wrist upward and forward as you step in beside him and execute the arm bar the same way you did in the last video. If both wrists are grabbed, move your right wrist under his right wrist and rotate his wrist upward and forward as you step in beside him executing the arm bar. If he does a cross hand grab, place your other wrist under the hand grabbed lifting and turning as you push up and over into the arm bar.

Our next technique is an arm lock with a backward throw. Your attacker throws a straight punch, perform an X-block, grab his wrist and bring the back of your left hand over to the bend in his arm and push his elbow down while you step next to him and turn, bringing his wrist over the top of your head, then bending his arm over his shoulder and take him down. You can follow your attacker down to the ground, as we did in the video, and keep his arm locked or you can simply throw him backward by throwing his wrist toward the floor and letting go before he lands.


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