© 2014 T. Westermann

Vertical elbow strike to the elbow joint, Kick to the head

The techniques are extremely fast, consistently and hard to perform!

  • Initial situation
    • Lateral backhand stitch or cut from a frontal position to the upper body

  • Defense
    • Body rotation about 90° away from the weapon arm
    • Ambidextrous outer forarm block (Morote soto uke) or much harder, ambidextrous hand edge block (Morote soto shuto uke) to the forarm and wrist of the weapon arm

  • Defense technique
    Vertical elbow strike, Kick to the head
    • The hand near the knife grips the wrist and stretches the arm by pulling, doing this ...
    • ... a inner rotation of the weapon arm is effected
    • Vertical elbow strike (Otoshi hizi uchi) onto the stretched Elbow with the other arm
      ATTENTION: Fracture of the elbow joint
    • By this the aggressor was bended downwards ...
    • Kick to the face or on the larynx with the leg near the weapon arm

  • Completion
    • Disarm and make sure the knife
    • go on distance or ...
    • ... a final Atemi technique

To ensure the weapon is mandatory!