How to Escape From a Kung Fu Front Shirt Grab

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center and for expertvillage.com. In this clip we are going to be showing you self defense against the lapel grab. So if someone ever comes up and just grab your lapel. All you have to do is take your opposite hand, go straight over and hold there hand firmly in place. Now what you want to do when I grab this is just take the thumb and the middle finger and grab on either side right here. See this naturally breaks the grip when you push in on each side of the hand between the thumb and the index finger and on the other side. So place it firmly and grab. Now what you want to do from me is just take a very slight step back it doesn't have to be anything drastic. Put your other hand on top of your own hand. Use your whole body and twist so he is side ways this way. Now from here right where the wrist bone is where it meets the palm use the pressure from the pinkie finger and your other pinkie right here and you press in and down as you step in. so this causes a break in the wrist and sometimes in the forearm. So once again it is here. Just grab across, step back, grab, place the other hand over, use your whole body, twist, press in, and down. It seems complicated but, it is actually very fast action. So once again so he is here grab, twist, straight down. That is self defense against the lapel grab."