quietanswer

I was going over disarms (which i haven't done in a while).. and when I do a snake disarm, it seems that frequently my opponent's fingers/hand turn in such a way that his fingers are directly opposite of the motion i'm cereating with the disarm.. so I'm disarming his stick against his fingers, not through the gap so much.

anyone encounter this (i know i've seen people hit this in class, back in the day) and have any tech tips to tell me what i'm doing wrong?

or is it not wrong, and I'm to slam the disarm home and take his fingers with it?

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Kevin

Your left arm goes over your opponents rt arm.... when it comes up under the opponents weapon hand, you should make contact (against the back of his hand) with your wrist/forearm area. As your left arm/hand make a counter clockwise motion, the contact forces his hand to turn also. His weapon hand should end with his palm facing upward..... in a weakened position. This is the trick I believe. Without the contact forcing his hand to turn, it remains palm-down.... which is not the position to try to snake out his weapon.

Hope this makes sense.
Always hard to try to describe such things via the written word... let me know.

~Kev

sikal

The rule of thumb in our school is: "Back of wrist to back of wrist."

Mike

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quietanswer

thanks, both answers make lots of sense, and I'll give it a whirl..

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