Someone comes
at you angry and quickly grabs you by the hair. You should have stopped them
before the grab but it’s ok you know what to do from here. After all you have
been practicing it since yellow belt. You reach up to grab their wrist and kick
them in the knee, then finish them with a shoulder lock but... They pull their hand away just as you grab
it!
Now what do
you do?
Or how about
this. You manage to get in the shoulder lock position but they recover and
muscle their arm free, now they are standing behind you! WOW doesn’t get too
much worse than that... What would you do? Have you thought about it? If you
haven’t thought about it I’ll tell you what you are likely to do... NOTHING!
You will freeze.
You do what
your training teaches you. If you haven’t trained for a failed technique you will
not be ready for it and the middle of a fight is not the time to try and figure
it out!
Over the
next little while I want to look at a few techniques from the Jukoshin Ryu
Jiu-jitsu syllabus. Specifically where they are likely to fail and what you can
do to follow up. Today I want to specifically look at the shoulder lock from
the front hair grab. Many styles of jiu-jitsu have something similar. If you’re
not sure what this is or want something more instructional on how to DO the
shoulder lock check out our on-line jiu-jitsu program and videos at www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com.
The video
below talks more about this and shows some possible follow-up techniques from
the two major fail points of the shoulder lock.
The shoulder
lock has two main fail points:
-
They pull their hand away when you go to grab
it. (bad)
-
They pull their arm away before you can apply
the full lock and are behind you. (Very bad)
The first
one it’s too bad as you have many possible options of how to respond. The main
point IS to respond or move to another technique. When a technique goes south on
you, you don’t have time to stand around thinking about what to do next. Now is
the time to do that thinking!
Next time we
will talk a bit more about this and look at the rear hair grab to figure lock.
As always is
you are looking for more great videos or to learn the wonderful art of
jiu-jitsu please check out our web site at www.learn-jiu-jitsu-online.com.
Cheers,
Jamie Rickard (Sensei)
Head Instructor
Koketsu Kai - Tiger's Den Jiu-jitsu and Grappling
Located at:
The Academy of Martial Arts
851 Princess Street
Kingston, Ontario
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