© 2014 T. Westermann

Throw by knee stretch lever

  • Initial situation
    • The defender is lying on the back or on the side
    • The aggressor is standing laterally
    • Tamped kick to the chest or to the head

  • Protection
    • At the moment of the tamped kick roll around the longitudinal axis, so the kick comes to nothing, but ...

  • Defense technique
    Throw by knee stretch lever
    • ... after the kick, straight roll back to the upright leg
    • The arm, next to the aggressor, grips behind the standing foot, at the area of the Achilles tendon and pulls the leg forward, during ...
    • ... the other arm pushes against the knee, or strikes e.g. with a handpad strike (Shotei uchi)
    • The aggressor falls by this leg lever straight backwards

  • Completion
    • stand up and go on distance or ...
    • ... fix the aggressor in the ground