How to Defend Against a Side Headlock Using Israeli Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Julio Rivera. And I'm Ricardo Belad. And we're here at Premier Martial Arts in New York City showing you Israeli martial arts. A headlock from the side. It's a common way to grab someone. He's going to come in, grab me in his headlock. Now, here we're fairly--we're not kind of slumped over here, so I'm going to reach and I'm going to strike with my open palm to the groin. Okay, it's a bigger surface area for me to find something, I strike. You're controlling the hands here. I'm going to reach over, put my finger right under his nose. Okay, now notice as I extend my finger, it's my middle finger, my other fingers are out of the way so I don't get bitten. Because, you get bitten that's it. The fight is right out of you. So here I'm going to pull back on his nose. No matter how big someone is, that's painful. Strike, take him down, continue to engage. Again, grabs me in a headlock right away, boom I'm going to strike. Control the hands, come over, right under the nose, and down. Let's try that in real time."