My main concern has always been that of being able to place an armlock that is immediate & effective against a guy who is throwing unceasing punches at me.
In a situation that is so dynamic and so dangerous as the above mentioned it does not come easy to place complex armlocks (well, complex for
me!) like for instance those meant to end with a shiho nage.
Knowing the rapidity with which a skilled puncher may repeatedly hit you, I have the following concerns:
1) I must be able to place the armlock as soon as possible
2) I must first protect myself from that tempest - thus I must shield myself (hands at face height or close enough to be there in a lightening, to shield me), dodge (move away laterally from incoming stuff), parry (try to brush it aside also as you dodge) and move lateral (try to go lateral to that arm): that is use the whole arsenal to avoid that incoming stuff at your face!
3) I must be able to produce an armlock that can be placed also on a rechambered arm because odds are that I will find it rechambered, for a skilled puncher can be very very fast (an instance of one of the fastest speeds ever reached:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyaqxK-1fI - and if he is
that fast and that unceasing, you're done - armlock or not. There is no armlock, no knife, no bottle, no chain that you can stop him with, because he sets the
whole agenda then - you need a
gun. Btw also a very enjoyable and instructive video, worth your time)
Perhaps with that video you may also understand why I say that you won't iriminage that type of guys...
no "Mune Tsuki Waza" with those guys, you won't do to them this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CKSFryR7I ...
Clinch, try to go lateral, and try grab one of their arms - you won't stand a chance for any other technique if you're attacked
about so hard.
To date, the only armlock that I (me, maybe others are better than me - that's not difficult lol) have been able to place in the given situation is the one seen here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5woFlsJq-tQ (move right away at minute
7.45 till minute
8.10 all the rest is
irrelevant don't waste your time. I have looked several times for that armlock on youtube but never found one, maybe I was looking in the wrong places though!)
It is regrettable that I cannot produce a video with an uke rather than with domestic makeshift
kata devices. However that type of armlock, at least in my case, has worked in
all the occasions I
managed to go lateral, without exceptions, and perhaps most significantly it has worked on rechambered arms
too.
True, my partners weren't near so fast like in the first video, but with that speed as said you won't even place an armlock. You need a
Glock.
Well, just to add my two cents to the armlocks parade.