Sundar J. M. Brown: I am Sundar J. M. Brown with Joe Diamond’s Mixed Marshall Arts Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today we are discussing practical self-defense. In this segment, we’re going to discuss how to defend yourself against the most common type of grab in the street, the single hand front grab. The goal of my opponent here is to do this. He grabs me and with his free hand punches me. When my opponent does this, my move is this. Now I’ll break this down so you can understand move step by step. The first thing I want to do whenever I am in a self-defense situation is assume what’s called a base position, essentially to come into base, I right my stance, soften my knees, and drop my hips, so I increase my sense of balance.
In this situation, because I am going to be hit in the face, I also want to raise both hands to protect myself. So as soon as my opponent touches me, I drop into a base position and raise my hands. Now I take my right hand and palm up, secure my opponent’s hand by chest by the wrist, like this. This remains in contact throughout the duration of the entire sequence. The punch is still a problem even if I am protecting my face, so I want to step into my opponent to remove myself from punching range. Then I am going to be stepping at an angle over my right side. As I do, I am going to take my free hand, my left hand, and slap elbow up and out of the way, like this. That’s step one.
Step two is to step through with my right foot continuing the circular motion. Step three is to bending the waist to extract my head. You’ll notice that all the way through I’ve stepped from a base position into another base position. So in every moment of the sequence I am in this balanced stance. Maintaining contact to your identical waist and so I can extract my head. Now, I’ve sliced right palm up and so I can grab my opponent’s bicep and maintain the grip here and I walk back in close to my opponent. Now I am going to raise my right elbow and push the elbow of my opponent across his back.
Again, when my opponent grabs me with one hand and punch me with the other, I immediately drop into base and raise my hand simultaneously. Now I take my right hand and palm up, I secure the opponent’s hand in my chest like this. Now I step into my opponent at an angle to take myself out of punching range. And with a system of motion, I use my free hand to slap the elbow up. Remember that I am stepping from base into base at all times. And now I step through with my back foot, also into a base position. And you’ve noticed that I’ve maintained my grips the entire time. I don’t end up in headlock here because it’s very easy to bend at the waist and extract my head by backing.
And as a view, I slide my hand inside my opponents arm so that I can grab his bicep. I maintain my grip here on his elbow and I walk back in. Now I am going to my raise my right elbow and push his elbow across his back. One more time at full speed. In this next segment, we’re going to discuss how to defend yourself against a headlock.
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