How to Use an Armbar Against a Knife Thrust

Video Transcript

"MICHAEL LEWIS: Michael Lewis with the Yeshua Ryu Martial Arts on behalf of Expert Village. We're talking today about arm bars, how to apply them and how to apply them safely. All right. Now, we're going to show you a very simple technique with the knife. He throws his knife towards me. I block it out of the way. And keep in mind when you're blocking we do a thing called push, parry, press. If he's throwing the strike with his right hand, you're going to take your left hand, push it across, take your own right hand come up underneath on the outside of your left arm and grab. It's a very effective way of blocking and grabbing. Again, he thrusts and I block it out of the way and grab. From here, of course, I've straightened out his arm, pulled on it a little bit, get it expose and now I have the arm bar. And of course, I can just again apply pressure straight down to the ground, so as he goes down then I can also again just bring him all the way down to the ground and apply my knee into the back of his arm to apply the arm bar technique. And that is the arm bar with a takedown and apply it to the ground with a knee strike from a knifepoint."