Use a Sai to Block & Counter with a Hook & Punch

"I'm Michael Lewis with Yeshua Ryu Martial Arts on behalf of Expert Village. We're here today to cover the sai. Now we're going to show you how to block counter and take advantage of the hooks on the sais to be able to disarm somebody. So he throws a down strike, I block and move the weapon out of the way, I take the hook from the sai and hook it around his wrist. At the same time, I'm going to move my body inward and that way, it's going to push the weapon out of his hand and I'll follow in with a strike with the left hand. Again, I'm going to use the knob end of the weapon to be able to strike into his face. So I've disarmed him and I've been able to use a counter-attack on him. So that way again, he throws a strike and I can use a second position. He throws a downward strike and I hook and bring it across. I hook it into his wrist. Also keep in mind that traditionally, these are sharp so if you actually didn't hook it all the way around the wrist and instead just stab the wrist that was still okay. You'd be able to still disarm him. Again, keep in mind that as you push across, you can use your body or the blocking hand to push his weapon close towards him and it rips it out of his hand. From here, it's just going to fall down to the ground and I can follow up with a stabbing strike or flip it back over to strike with the end of the weapon. That is one way of being able to rip out the weapon out of somebody's hand and taking advantage of the hooks of the sais."