| From: | loneeagle2061@*******.com (Lone Eagle) |
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| Subject: | [OT] He's baaaack! And this time with one for the |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Oct 2002 14:13:18 +0000 |
>Sorry, what I meant was that I didn't think locks
>would be much help in the situation I described
>because while I don't doubt that you can (and have
>to!) perform them quickly, you're then tied up keeping
>the lock in effect, or the guy you just locked can
>start fighting back once you drop the lock. Or is that
>what you're saying - you can quickly perform a lock,
>then use the lock to disable the victim (or at least
>the limb you're locking) then release the lock and
>move on?
Take a simple wrist and elbow lock as an example, to help you envisage it
stick your arm out horizontal with the palm of your hand facing downwards.
Now let your wrist sag keeping your hand straightish so that your fingers
are pointing downwards and rotate your arm on its axis from your shoulder
until your fingers are pointing upwards, you'll find that unless you're
double jointed you're doubled over at the waist. Now imagine a hand pushing
lightly on the outside of your elbow and another holding your hand in
position. With you in that position pressure on your elbow will cause you to
run if the person applying the lock wants you to; sharp pressure at either
lock will dislocate the joint and put you out of the fight but more
important in a multiple opponent combat is the movement bit. By manipulating
the lock you can be "swung" around like a two pound rag doll, your mates
however when you hit them are going to feel a two hundred pound sack of
flour impact. You can be maneuvered to block attacks, as a ram or simply to
put you between your opponent and your mates. A skilled fighter rarely
fights more than one opponent at a time, he fights lots of single opponent's
in sequence, one after another but will tend to make each attacker get in
all of the other attacker's way.
For an appreciation of the wrist lock by the way (and be very careful doing
this, overdoing it can easily cause permenant tendon damage.)
Hold your forearm level in front of you with your palm pointing down, cock
your wrist so that your fingers are pointing at the ground. Using the heel
of your other hand slowly apply pressure to the first two knuckles in effect
trying to push the hand up the arm from the knuckles. Stop as soon as it
gets uncomfortable but don't let the pressure off for a moment, let the
pressure off slowly and imagine what that would do if it were quickly
snapped on with your strength and no pain resulting... ie what it would do
to your opponent when you snapped it onto him.
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