There are only eight techniques in the martial arts. This sort of flies in the face of people who study arts with a thousand self defense techniques, but that is not its intent. In fact, one should learn those thousand techniques before they actually consider something like the club catcher technique I'm going to give you here.
Club Catcher, and I may have falsely called this Sword Catcher in other articles I have written, depends on a high crossed wrist block. Obviously, the move can be used differently, or for other weapons. You'll have to alter some of the move if you are taking away a bladed weapon, or handling some other type of attack.
You raise the wrists and cross them in front of your face. This catches the incoming club, or whatever kind of weapon the fellow is attacking with. Make sure you get close enough so you can catch his wrist, and not the weapon, you don't want to take the impact of the weapon on your arms.
What you do now depends on which of your hands is furthest forward. The martial arts technique you want the most is to close the attacker. That is, to push his arm across his body.
So if he swings the club with his right hand, and your left hand is in front of your right hand, push up on his elbow and pull down on his wrist. This will make for a great armbar or elbow roll. Make sure you get your body behind your arms, and the technique will require less force.
If he is attacking with the right hand, and your right hand is in front of your left hand, then you can go for some sort of armwrap. However, you are open to a strike with his other hand, so you might just as well pull his arm down with your left hand and execute a block with your right hand. This will actually position you better, put you on the inside with the strike option, so have a party and knock the living you know what out of him.
Club Catcher is great for setting up a lot of other secondary self defense techniques. You can develop wrist twists, leg sweeps, a range of armwraps, and even full body insertions whereby you can crank his coconut and deposit him into a little puddle on the ground. The main thing is to get so good at this martial arts technique that you can see him coming a mile away, and actually join with his motion, thus making the move into an aikido move or hapkido technique.
In closing, let me recommend the club attack defense highly, for it is one of the most important of the eight martial arts techniques. In real life there is a high likelihood that you will see this attack, whether with a club, or some other object. Remember, do it until it is more natural than walking.
Club Catcher, and I may have falsely called this Sword Catcher in other articles I have written, depends on a high crossed wrist block. Obviously, the move can be used differently, or for other weapons. You'll have to alter some of the move if you are taking away a bladed weapon, or handling some other type of attack.
You raise the wrists and cross them in front of your face. This catches the incoming club, or whatever kind of weapon the fellow is attacking with. Make sure you get close enough so you can catch his wrist, and not the weapon, you don't want to take the impact of the weapon on your arms.
What you do now depends on which of your hands is furthest forward. The martial arts technique you want the most is to close the attacker. That is, to push his arm across his body.
So if he swings the club with his right hand, and your left hand is in front of your right hand, push up on his elbow and pull down on his wrist. This will make for a great armbar or elbow roll. Make sure you get your body behind your arms, and the technique will require less force.
If he is attacking with the right hand, and your right hand is in front of your left hand, then you can go for some sort of armwrap. However, you are open to a strike with his other hand, so you might just as well pull his arm down with your left hand and execute a block with your right hand. This will actually position you better, put you on the inside with the strike option, so have a party and knock the living you know what out of him.
Club Catcher is great for setting up a lot of other secondary self defense techniques. You can develop wrist twists, leg sweeps, a range of armwraps, and even full body insertions whereby you can crank his coconut and deposit him into a little puddle on the ground. The main thing is to get so good at this martial arts technique that you can see him coming a mile away, and actually join with his motion, thus making the move into an aikido move or hapkido technique.
In closing, let me recommend the club attack defense highly, for it is one of the most important of the eight martial arts techniques. In real life there is a high likelihood that you will see this attack, whether with a club, or some other object. Remember, do it until it is more natural than walking.
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You can find more martial arts movements of this sort at Monster Martial Arts. These precise techniques are listed in Matrix Kung Fu (The Forty Monkeys). Head on over over to the Monster, and make sure you pick up a free book.