I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I’d have said that wrist locks have their place, but only if you’re going for a pain compliance hold on a downed opponent. Trying to go for the wrist on a standing, fighting opponent is a mug’s game, there are so many more amusing places to hit them

But if you, for whatever reason, want to cause pain to someone on the ground (never a good plan by any kind of authority figure imho, it’s too easily misconstrued and used against you), I’d say a wristlock is a possibility. Not my preference, but then I prefer striking anyway, and if I did go for holds or locks I’d go for arms, shoulders and throats.

I’m afraid I’m going to fall into the trap of “I saw it done by x,” but in this situation it is warranted. I did see it done by an instructor for SAMBO, and it wasn’t a “throwing a helpless student around” either. It was a decent sparring match, and if the screams of the other guy were anything to go by, it was mildly uncomfortable to say the least. Granted, he pulled it off while kneeling on the mans kidneys and an elbow pushing down on his neck, but his wrist was indeed locked.

Just my two cents. Excellent article though, and I’d agree with just about everything in there.

Buying an SS knife replica does not make me a Nazi, any more than a katana would make me a samurai.

The knife is not inherently evil, no weapon is. I’d be interested purely from a historical standpoint.

They are not used in the UFC because 1, they are considered a ‘small joint manipulation’, which is classified as an illegal move, and secondly, everyone tapes their wrists, limiting the angle in which you’d be able to apply it.

Jenny,
You cannot deprive a people of their heritage and identity no matter how bad your gigantic Jewish butt hurts over the thought.

14/SS

I hold a 7th dan in jujitsu, as well as a 5th dan in judo and an even better Greco Roman, freestyle, and submission wrestler. I also used to be an amateur boxer when I was a paratrooper in the Italian army. No one’s going to throw me with an aikido technique. If you’ve ever watched Olympic judo you’ll notice that most judo players struggle to throw each other, which is why there are far more penalties for passivity than there are throws in most matches. And I’ve never seen anyone thrown with an aikido technique in any judo or wrestling competition. Now before you tell me that they can use wrist locks, you can use wrist locks in submission wrestling, and aikido has no defence against western boxing. Over the years I’ve trained and fought with plenty of aikido dan grades and none of them could fight.

Now why don’t you watch that video again and explain to us why Mori was pretending to throw people by magic if he wasn’t a bullshitting little Jap bastard?

I would say that once you are on the receiving end from an advanced practioner, you would be less skeptical.

On a different note Hi stefi, Rob, Amica and Uncle Pietro.