© 2014 T. Westermann

Hand side lever, pull to the ground

basic defense posture while choking: Chin to chest / Pull up shoulders / Tense neck muscles

  • Initial situation
    • The aggressor is located in front of the defender
    • Two handed strangulation in the stand

  • Loosen grip
    • A hand grasps over both arms of the aggressor from the outside under the strangling hand ...
    • The fingers press here on the inner hand joint
    • Rotation off the hand inwards

  • Defense technique
    Hand side lever, Yoko mawashi irimi
    • Stretch of the dissolved arm by pulling and walking backwards
    • Approach of hand side lever (Yoko mawashi irimi) by constant pulling backwards ...
      The hand of the aggressor are leveraged by the little finger side of the hand is tilted relative to the ulna side of the forearm.
    • ... until the aggressor is in the prone position in the ground.
  • Completion

Strangle attacks pose a threat to life, they are consistent, timely and hard to fend off!