Friday, January 14, 2011

Lesson 26 headlock defense

This is practised in lat sow. Attacker starts from his pack sow to reach either over or under your left arm pak sow in an attempt to place you in the headlock. Usually he turns his torso to his left while attempting to move in.

Basic defense is to simply punch to the neck around his arm. Keep him at a distance. If he closes in past your borders, he will have a lot more chance of success. The trick to repelling him involves using your distance, keeping your head back, wedging in with your stance and lower torso. The attacker will feel like if he went just a bit harder, or faster, or further in, he could be sucessful. This is a typical wing tsun trap of using just the right combination of skills in your defense.

If he is sucessful in getting your head, use the left fax sow to push up and across the area below his nose. Pressure on the side of his head makes it hard for him to bite your arm. For this move to be sucessful, there must be some access to power of your stance, arm movements etc. Plus a feel for controlling his head, keeping it away from your own is a large part of the sucessful method used here.

Sometimes with correct angles, use of raising the shoulders, moving at just the correct time, and such, you can slip out of the encircling arm similar to 'ducking' or rather rolling off a hook punch.

If you get locked up, the next phase is, as usual, to attack. If being bent over, then there is usually a close target of your opponents groin area.

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