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. This segment teaches you how to defend yourself against a basic headlock. The goal of my attacker here is to wrap his arm around my head and neck and punch me in the face with his free hand. When that happens my move is this.
Now let’s break it down for use of understanding. Again, the primary consideration here is going to be dropping into a base position to maintain my balance. As soon as I feel my attacker’s arm coming around my neck and head, I immediately avoid my stance and I soften my knees and drop my hips. Now because I am worried about the punch, the first thing I do is shoot both arms straight across, so one arm is going to go behind his back and one arm is going to be on the front. Essentially with other partner I am going to look like this. You can see that all of this doesn’t remove the punch entirely it takes away some of the force in the punch. I am going to use my right hand and follow my opponent’s arm until I can secure his wrist. And holding the wrist, I am going to feed his bicep to my left hand and pin him here.
It’s important to not move your elbow up. But I move my elbow down so I can get a good grip on his wrist. From this position I am going to walk in until my hip touches my opponent’s hip. And now just like in the previous movement with the grab, I take my right hand and I pin my opponent’s wrist to my chest. Now I want you to imagine your body like a door and your left leg is like a hinge. Your left leg and hip stay glued to your opponent, and you’re going to step back in a semicircle wide on your right leg when you look up in a way like this. Also very important to remember that the hands stay in front of the chest the entire time. Now you will shake my head from the headlock, I perform to set in motion. I bow the waist and I start my head walking backwards. If I let my opponent go here, what he has to do is turn towards me and the movement is over and the fight starts over again. I have not adequately defended myself.
So from this position, one side to take my head by down of the waist and walking backwards, I maintain this grip. And now, I simply lift my opponent’s wrist to his shoulder. One more time, my opponent tends to wrap his arm around my neck, pull me down and punch me with a free hand. So first, I drop into base and I show both arms across to prevent the punch from having full effect. I now use my right hand to track down his arm so I can finely secure his wrist. I feed myself his bicep and I walk into him so I get into touch. My right hand holds his wrist and pinch it to my chest. Keeping my left foot and hip from applying against my opponent, I step back and wide on my right foot looking up in a way as if I am opening a door.
Now I bend at the waist and walk backwards, securing my opponent’s wrist and pushing up while maintaining my grip on his left bicep. In the next segment we’re going to discuss how to defend yourself against a bear hug.
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