Video: Kung Fu Counter Attacks: Downward Hand Lock

In kung fu, use upper body weight and apply pressure to the wrist joint to perform the downward hank lock counter attack. Practice this quick defensive maneuver with tips from a professional kung fu instructor in this free martial arts video.

Video Transcript

Hi my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center in Seminole and today in this clip we are going to be showing you how to perform the downward hand lock. So if somebody walks up and puts their hand on your chest like this the best thing to do is you want to place one palm on top and cross on top and you want to flex the palm, putting pressure on the blades and straight down towards the wrist joint. You don't want to let him escape, you want to pull him in towards you. At the same time you are going to step back and you are going to lean in, pressing on their palm as hard as you can like this and this puts pressure on the wrist joint, forces their hand backwards. So this is very important, when they press in grab, don't step back and just press with your hands. You have to use your upper body weight. You want to lean over the top as you step back and go straight down and you can keep leaning in and from there you can perform other various strikes. So it can come from a touching position or even as a strike so even as they strike in you can catch this way and press straight down. If you have someone who is very big and very strong and they push in, grab, you can take more than one step, grab and keep walking. That's the proper way to perform the downward hand block.

Kung Fu Counter Attacks: Downward Hand Lock

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