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"Hey, how are ya?" "How's it goin'?" "It's good." "Come this way!" "No! No! No!" Okay, so everything has been quite intense. But what about just the simple fact that maybe somebody is grabbing your wrist, either on the sidewalk, maybe it's at a party, maybe it's with a bunch of friends and you don't appreciate the fact that they're trying to control you with a wrist grab. Either single wrist grab, or double wrist grab. Let's take a look at how easy it is to state the fact they have crossed a line and we don't appreciate it. So the single wrist grab, they reach in. Let's break this out a little bit. Lookit. In most cases, not to say that they couldn't have a full circumferential grab on the wrist, normally there's gonna still be an opening side to the grab. This is where we wanna take advantage. Obviously this is the best spot to slip back out of. You can do that with a simple pull. Just a jerk. They've grabbed it, we rip away. If that doesn't work, a strike to the hand while we pull away is quite effective. They go to grab the other hand, we can do the same thing. They still hold on, we push it away. Now we make this very obvious. "Don't touch me again." This would be a great time to grab your pepper spray and say "I will spray you with pepper spray, do not touch me again." We've made our boundary clear. Now they grab both hands, we don't have our pepper spray with us, we bring our hands up towards our face. Again, bring our hands up towards our face. It would not be wrong at this point, to heel strike to the groin, or push our opponent away to get more space distance. This is also a great time, you've got your pepper spray, which you should. Grab your pepper spray, arm it, and now you make it very obvious that they have crossed a boundary, and they're not going to touch you again. "Hey, don't touch me. I said don't touch me. I said don't touch me!" Okay so in this situation you might be saying, "well, there's no need for pads." You're right, there isn't in this case. But there still is a lot of good reasons why you would practice the wrist grab release. And it can actually be kind of fun, you can make a game out of this to be quite honest with you. So they grab one wrist, you just break the grip. Try it a couple different ways. Have your practicing partner actually try to hold on to it. You know? And if you can't get away from it, then go with the opposite hand strike to move that hand off. Do the other hand. Try it without it. See if you can break the grip. They grab both. See if you can break the grip. Break the grip. Push away. So just running through those motions, put it in different scenarios. Have them surprise you. Do different things, different strengths, different angles, so that you can really become extremely reflexive on making it clear to the aggressor "I didn't say you could touch me, I didn't ask you to touch me, don't touch me again."
In this video you will learn how to escape a wrist grab, whether single or double. Slap the wrist away and grab your pepper spray. If the aggressor grabs both wrists, quickly bring your hands up to your face and forcefully push the aggressor away.