Wrist Locks Technique - Help! I Am Losing Control
What should you do, when you start to lose control of a wrist locks technique?
Is there an easy fix to this martial arts problem?
You are in the middle of a martial encounter. You are snapping on a solid wrist lock, except this time, the wrist lock isn’t so solid.
Your opponent resists. He (or she) is about to break free of the hold you are right in the process of effecting.
So, what do you do?
Efficient Martial Response
Since the popularization of Bruce Lee’s JKD, most now understand the concept of hitting a resister and then trying the lock again. (I have been teaching and promulgating this principle for the last 25 years.)
You could eye jab your attacker and then try the same hold again (careful, with training partners. Wear eye protection — eye jabs come in fast.) You could also kick your attacker in the shins and then snap on the lock again.
Try This Wrist Lock Technique
Here is one of my favorite wrist lock techniques:
You are trying to put on a solid wrist lock. You are pressing in one direction. In contrast, your opponent is resisting your pressure. He (or she) is trying to force the pressure in the opposite direction.
Normally, this leads to a battle of force against force.
Not this time. Instead, go with your opponent’s resistance. In fact, get a little ahead of your opponent. Go in your attacker’s resisting direction fast enough that you gain some slack. And as soon as you have that loose feeling in your wrist lock, snap back in your original direction with the same wrist lock as before. This time, you are snapping it on faster, cleaner, and with more force.
What a surprise!
Can you see how you use going in the same direction as the resistance, in order to gain slack? It’s a beautiful wrist locks technique. And it’s a real shocker to catch your opponent with the same lock that just a second before didn’t work.
Wrist Locks Technique Next Step
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Keith Pascal has been a full-time martial-arts author for eight years and a martial-arts teacher for 25 years.
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