© 2014 T. Westermann

Shoulder lever in the stand

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 one arm of the aggressor from the inside under the strangling hand ...
    • The thumb presses here on the inner hand joint
    • Rotation off the hand outwards

  • Defense technique
    Arm lever in the stand, Ude garami tachi waza
    • Moving the body to the side of the dissolved arm
    • The other arm is placed from the outside over the arm of the aggressor on the own forearm of the releasing hand ...
      (The forearm is in the elbow crook of the dissolved arm)
    • ... at the same time, the dissolved arm is bent under pressure backwards (from the aggressor).
    • The throw is done by lifting the forearm and the streching of the hand holding arm downwards to the back, wherein the hand of the aggressor is bent.

  • Completion

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