This highly practical and effective control hold allows an assailant to be taken down face-first, swiftly with strong deadside positional control, and driven into the ground with dominant control over the weapon.
Control Hold A may also be applied with or without preceding retzev combatives. Again, usually in the case of a weapon, the defender has delivered strong preceding combatives and has control of the weapon arm before applying the specific hold. The hold places compliance or takedown pressure on the opponent’s wrist and shoulder while controlling the weapon.
Figures 1.04a–d. (Note: These photos depict a close slash that requires a modified block.) After administering combatives, if you are facing your opponent or the side of your opponent, grab his right wrist with your right hand. Another option is to grip the flat of the back of his hand by turning your wrist up to create pressure on his wrist. Raise your wrist up placing upward pressure so that his arm comes up with a ninety-degree bend with fingers toward the ground. Reach over the top of his targeted shoulder clamping down hard on the shoulder while snaking your right arm over the top of his targeted right arm across his shoulder to clasp your other arm.
Figures 1.04e–f. You must clamp down on the targeted shoulder to facilitate the lock. Reach around the arm and encircle it to grip your own forearm.
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Figures 1.04g–i. Bring his elbow and wrist close to your body, torquing the shoulder upward while keeping hard pressure on the shoulder. Note: By torquing the arm upward, an escape, especially using a scissors takedown or counter, becomes much more difficult. Take a one-hundred-eighty-degree (tsai-bake) step towards two o’clock with your right leg to bring down your opponent. As your opponent is going down, keep the grip tight. You may further secure him and the weapon by placing your right knee behind his elbow exerting pressure up on the shoulder and your left knee on top of his neck. To remove the weapon, peel the weapon from the assailant’s grip using your thumb at the grip’s base to keep the point directed at him and away from you.
This highly adaptable control hold allows an assailant to be taken down swiftly backward with strong deadside control over an edged weapon.
Control Hold B may be applied with or without preceding retzev combatives. Usually in the case of a weapon, the defender has delivered strong preceding combatives and has control of the weapon arm before applying the specific hold. The hold places compliance or takedown pressure on the opponent’s shoulder and wrist while controlling the weapon.
Figures 1.05a–d. If you are facing or positioned to the side of your opponent, you must secure his right wrist with your left hand. Grip the flat of the back of his hand with a perpendicular grip. You can push his face away to cause a distraction. Curl his wrist in while slipping your other arm on the shoulder over the top of his targeted arm across his forearm using a Figure-Four grip. Then reach around the arm and encircle it to grip your own forearm tightening your right arm to your body. Bring his elbow and wrist close to your body; take a one-hundred-eighty-degree rear (tsai-bake) step with your left leg similar to Cavalier #1, bringing your opponent down. As your opponent is going down keep the grip tight. Once your opponent is down, you may use an additional knee strike to his head for further compliance or simply rest your knee on his head while exerting pressure on the wrist and shoulder. The opponent may also be rotated on his stomach.
Figures 1.05e–i. For law enforcement and security personnel or others who may wish to exert maximum control of the attacker, when effecting the hold against an unarmed or armed perpetrator, once you have taken the opponent down on his back, you may reverse him onto his stomach. Yank up on his arm while still maintaining your Figure-Four grip, then turn in the opposite direction. Do not break the movements by touching your knees to the ground. In this case, be sure not to collapse with him and keep upward pressure on his arm as you rotate him. Maintain the momentum of takedown into an immediate reversal onto his stomach. By keeping strong pressure on his wrist and shoulder to facilitate his turn, you have taken him down by combining a joint lock and a one-hundred-eighty-degree step in one direction. Take a one-hundred-eighty-degree (tsai-bake) step in the opposite direction, turning his wrist and shoulder in the opposite direction that you initially turned to take him down. To remove the weapon, peel the weapon from the assailant’s grip using your thumb at the grip’s base to keep the point directed at him and away from you.