bjj and judo help

[username8517]

I agree with Bearich for the most part. We practice front and side wrist escapes in Wado but our techniques are a good bit different from the ones described in that book. Our Sensei once mentioned that it's highly unlikely anyone will ever grab you by the wrist unless you're a woman in which case it happens a lot. For some reason, men who abuse women like to grab them by the wrist and try to drag them away. Any man who tries that on a woman (or man for that matter) who's well trained in Wado is likely to end up with a broken leg!

Thank you. While I realize some of these, such as the wrist grabs, are highly unlikely, I was trying to stress the "unreality" of the situations. As I listed above on the two-handed wrist grab, why bother freeing your hand when you can use your already free hand to beat your attacker into letting go? Or in the thrust kick situation, a much more effective solution would be to evade then counter attack (which they do show in the brown belt section about 100 pages later) than to try and catch a kick coming at your straight on.

But I guess this is just a prime example of how each style as their strengths and weaknesses.

[bushido_man96]

I feel that wrist grab defenses are usually used to train a sense of feeling how to move against the grip, and translates later on to other things. Nearly all martial styles have some sort of 'escape from wrist grab' techniques, but how many of them actually get used? Like you mentioned, bearich, more than likely you would just strike with your other hand.

That is one thing that I liked about the Combat Hapkido that I did--every self-defense technique, whether a wrist grab, lapel grab, or choke, always begins with a distraction technique, in which you strike the attacker to get their minds off of think about holding you.