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Larry Camejo wrote:
Yet we have so many who still believe that a wrist grab is an "unrealistic attack" because their partner does not grab with the intent to have one understand the context that governs how the waza is supposed to be practiced. One grabs and easily can let go before any waza utilizing the grab can be executed and they think the waza is ineffective when in fact the correct attack for the context in which the waza is being practiced is not being executed.
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These are my thoughts.
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And I think they're good thoughts, too. Now... After 14 years in this Aikido thing, I'm still not sure how the wrist grab occurs in situ.
Restraining a mugging victim? going for an "arm bar" behind the back with "kubishime" or Hadaka-Jime or sleeper hold? Escorting one out of a pub?
My problem, if it is indeed a problem, is that I've never been in a fight. Nor (touch wood) have I been mugged, and since I was 14, and smashed a guy's nose with the back of my head, I've not been "assaulted", either.
Not to say I'm ever going to go looking for all of these events, but... I haven't had a sensei explain where wrist grabs occur in modern-day society. One sensei showed how a person might grab a wrist to prevent one from drawing a katana (ok, a bokken), and then how the handle of the bokken could be used to apply nikkyo (nikajo?), but can someone describe a few situations where, in modern life, people grab wrists as attacks (or part of an attack?)
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I guess I haven't had a violent enough up-bringing to have been exposed to this stuff outside of the dojo.
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