Training Jedi Knight Types Lesson 6 Twist Top - Defence

By Stephen Cheney

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DEFENCE: TWIST TOP WAZA

1. Suddenly send your hands to his shoulders.

You will be using the basic fundamental in JuJutsu of Push/Pull.

2. You grab his shoulders: Pull one, Push the other.

- One hand grabs a shoulder and pulls horizontally towards you; the other hand pushes a shoulder horizontally away from you. Both at the same time. Twist the Top of his torso. Like both hands working a horizontal steering wheel. To prevent your pushing hand from sliding off his shoulder you may form it into a Palm Heel ‘L’ shape and strike the shoulder – but you must keep pushing (and pulling). This is an explosive fast movement before he can raise his hands.

- This sudden steering is a fast attack by you. Who attacks first gains the initiative.

- The result that you want is that his torso, the top of his body, is twisted, while his feet will remain nearly in the same spot that they were.

- He has no surface in that circular path to push or lever against to stop the movement as he does with a linear strike where he can brace, counterpush against the ground.

- This twisting of his spine makes him nearly immobile. He is now side-on to you so only his near arm can strike you (say to your groin).

- If at this early stage if there is a difficulty, or maybe the Aggressor is too tall: smash your forearm or hand into his throat. Your forearm is already there.

3. You immediately step behind him to avoid any strike, keep pressing down on his shoulders.

You will notice when you go behind that you are safe from his arms and also your forearm falls naturally across his neck.

4. You pull your forearm to pull his head back arching his spine

To further off balance him and immobilize him. If he cannot move he cannot fight. But at the moment he is still standing, change that:

5. Kick-Stomp on his upper Calf:

Lift your leg nearest to your choking arm and stomping on his upper calf press your foot to the ground to reach a position where he is kneeling. This removes his legs from levering forward and brings him down to size.

Maintain the pull back on his throat. By this time he should have his hands on your arm to pull down and take off the pressure from his throat. It doesn’t matter.

From your position behind him you have a number of options depending on how aggressive or dangerous the Aggressor is. JuJutsu gives you options of kill or restrain whereas Karate power strikes are extremely damaging and may kill when you do not wish to.

A)
Stomp Again then run away:

To not kill nor knock him out and just to run safely away without him being able to chase you, you: Raise again the foot that you kicked him with and stomp down hard on his Achilles Heel, which is the tendon connecting his calf to his heel. He will no longer be able to run after you, nor even walk. He needs to go to hospital.

This is why, in martial arts, whenever kneeling on the mat your feet need to be flat (instep down) and you not up on your toes or you will be damaged if trodden on.

This option is also advised if the Aggressor has mates coming for you and you need to get away fast. Leaving him incapacitated will give his mates pause (mind control) to tend to him and respect your abilities. You don’t want him or his fit mates chasing and capturing you. Bullies love the advantage of a gang. A gang can kill you.

This option is good also if he pulls out a knife to stab your wrapping arm; maintain awareness of such possibilities. Anyone who attacks you unfairly, such as a street attacker, is ALWAYS to be assumed to have a weapon on them, one in every pocket, in his belt, in his socks etc. A street fighter without weapons is an idiot, one not long to live.

B)
1. Sleeper Hold: You wrap your arms around his neck in a common Sleeper Hold.

A Sleeper Hold is a strangle, it is not as dangerous as a choke across the wind pipe. A strangle doesn’t block all blood to the brain but it does press on the Vagus heart nerve and change the blood pressure in the brain enough for the brain to activate its survival instinct mechanism and his brain, not you, renders him unconscious to fall to the ground where being horizontal will allow the heart to more easily pump blood.

2. You place your knee against the middle of his back

To further control his movement.

3. You hold until he collapses,

You are watching intently for this. CARE: do not hold for longer than 10 seconds after he slumps or he might die. Do Not lift his body off the ground as then you will not register when he is out. His automatic Resuscitation can be assisted by you (and MUST be known so MUST have been taught to you by an instructor).

4. You have the option of running away

And seeking medical aid for the fallen.

Sleeper holds are daily common in Judo in Japan since 1882, no deaths recorded because Judoka are trained by a qualified master. Resuscitation methods are also learned. So this waza needs a qualified martial arts teacher to supervise. Deaths in the USA have been because police using a baton across the throat have crushed the windpipe and the held person died. They were not trained properly and did Not know the meaning, consequences and safety requirements of what they were doing. This is why in training in the martial arts the method of: just doing as you are told and don’t ask any questions is inefficient. You should always be told the MEANING of what you are doing and consequences of faulty technique. Questions should be asked and allowed after a waza in class if not during its training. The Mind commands the Body.

Sleeper Holds, where your elbow is under his chin, your forearm and biceps ‘squeeze’ the sides of his throat, your other hand is over his head pressing it into your lower arm: are often poorly taught. Normally he will go unconscious within 10 seconds, but done properly the hold should put him out in 3 seconds. Training in this can come from a knowledgeable master: involving the top hand; your bottom hand; not using strength; your shoulders; and how the place a Sleeper Hold from behind on a sentry without they being able to react and counter with JuJutsu: you do Not swing your arm around his throat.

The value of a sleeper hold in a fight struggle is that:

if instead you CHOKE a person, pressing their windpipe: they will panic, explode strength and become like a raging maniac and might even break free and then it is Your life that is in danger. A person with a crushed windpipe can still kill you in the 13 or so seconds that he rages before he collapses and dies. With a Sleeper Hold the Choke mechanism does not activate and the patient drifts off to sleep. From a strangle you recover; from a choked-crushed windpipe you do not (unless you have a biro, a Jedi Knight Type agent should always have a biro, but that is another subject). With a strangle: his brain will cooperate with you as you are engaging / activating his survival mechanisms. Cooperation, if you can get it, is always better than violence.

This waza works whether the Aggressor is standing normally or he has one foot forward. Even if he turns a foot you will still be pulling him off balance from behind. You may notice that the effect is best if your twist is towards the side of his forward leg. But in a tense activity fine details dissolve; that detail of checking his feet you may not, you should not, have time for.

SUMMARY

This takedown is simple and fast.

1. Strike/Pull his shoulders to twist and spin his torso, locking his legs, press down on his shoulders
2. Step to get behind
3. Pull back on his throat
4. Stomp on his CALF to get him lower kneeling
5. Stomp down on his Achilles Tendon hard and run; 

Or strangle by Sleeper Hold; Resuscitate.

What does this waza FEEL like to you?

A large truck has a large steering wheel in a horizontal position rather than the usual partly vertical. When your hands go towards his shoulders you use both to steer his torso just as you would a truck steering wheel. When one hand grabs a shoulder and the other hits a shoulder you explode into a pull and push.

What does this waza FEEL like to the enemy?

There is a sudden jolt and they feel anchored to the floor due to their shoulders and hips twisting above their thighs. They feel stuck and cannot move or kick. When on their knees from a calf stomp and pulled back their throat is exposed to attack by strike or choke so they lose confidence. A mind changer.

What Principles does this waza seek to Teach: and thus what can you Learn from Practicing this waza?

• The Bully, confident in his strength, that has served him so well in the past, has a tunnel-visioned mind and He is focused on building His attack and not really prepared for You, the victim, to attack first pre-empting his attack.
• Who attacks first gains the initiative. Gaining the first strike wins most fights.
• Speed or attack mostly is too fast for a reaction time, especially when bodies are close.
• Surprise takes the initiative (until one pauses). There should be no pauses in a waza, all done smoothly and in one breath out, from much practice.
• Pushing and or Pulling is a fundamental way to Off Balance an opponent.
• Force is normally linear and can be countered by a stronger linear force in the opposite direction. A circular direction is like using another dimension: you send him into that other dimension into helplessness.
• Mobility is a necessity in war. Immobility limits all options and the attacker has the advantage.
• In every waza your body works all together. In this one both your arms assist and your leg steps to safety.
• You keep fighting until you get a desired result. That your enemy is no longer Capable of fighting for he is helpless or dead.
• If you loose a dangerous fight and become helpless, the first Aggressor who showed no mercy by choosing to dominate or to attack you, cannot be expected to leave without inflicting damage or death upon your person.
• In sports like boxing the forces, straight or circular, are enforced to cross a linear direction: each contestant must keep position in front of the other. So fights or such bashing can go on for many rounds (long term is brain damage). Combat is not like that. There is no time to waste on the battlefield. Waza must be fast and effective. You never stay in front of your opponent where all his body weapons can fire at you (head, arms, elbows, knees legs); as soon as you can you move behind him and finish. No sparring, in sparring you can get hurt. In combat you Avoid-Finish-Leave.
• If the mind is shut down by shutting down the brain then the body shuts down. The mind rules the body.
• This waza does a spinal lock. Once twisted, you are pressing down on top of his torso and his feet are as embedded into the ground.

A STRANGLE presses on arteries restricting blood and thus affecting blood pressure; and presses on nerves restricting impulses (the brain sends a regular impulse to the heart to regulate its pulses (plus the heart has a resident backup). The brain thinks the heart is in trouble by all of this and shuts down the body to drop and ease the heart’s function. So a non-violent effect.

A CHOKE presses the wind pipe restricting air to the lungs, the brain registers a build up of Carbon Dioxide (it does not measure oxygen levels). The brain then sends out panic messages to the body to urgently move it to elsewhere to obtain access to air. So a violent struggle happens with you. A mosquito also measures Carbon Dioxide levels to find you by your breathing in the dark. If you think that being small is insignificant, try, as is said, sleeping with a buzzing dive bombing mosquito in the room.

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