Tai Chi: Hair Grab Defense

Video Transcript

"In this segment I'm going to be showing you a possible defense against a hair grab. So as Rey is standing here, if I grab at his hair, he steps in, throws me off. The main idea here is this, if I grab his hair, the control I have is I can pull on his hair which takes his head in the direction I want to go. If I control his head, I control his body. But what he does is bring his hand up and he wants to slam his hand against his own head. So no longer can I pull my hand. So really, even though I have his hair, I don't have his head anymore. He has control of my hand which then controls the direction of his head. And if you notice he brought his arm up at the outside, so he can, he has leverage. All he has to do is turn his body and I have to go where he's telling me to go. What does he care whether I'm holding on to his head or not, as long as I'm not pulling on it to pull his head. And there's no way I can pull his hear if his hand is behind my hand, my hand is between his hand and his head."