logophylia wrote:
Kruel - I'm interested - how were you taught to hold a bind with a staff ? I've never been able to come up with a reliable method as there just isn't anything to "hook on" with, if that makes any sense.
Again, I have agreed with Nick that this is a grapple and not a bind, although some bo-staff holds produce more or less the same effect that Craig describes in his feat.
Obviously I can't show you, but....
if you have seen arm locks you can probably imagine that this is possible.
Just like a bind you use counter pressure to restrict movement, but it requires you to grapple the arm or the head and well as threading the staff or spear.
The most reliable of these attacks begin with a strike to the arm followed by a thrust behind the head, under the chin, or under the armpit - the holds are different depending on where you are and where you thrust.
You close/sidestep outside the disabled arm, depending on how long the staff is, and slide the staff as you step in holding it now only with your reverse hand.
Your forward hand is free to grapple... you really need to see this to understand how to create the counter pressure, and a strong, limber person can certainly escape. They will have to drop their weapon to do so, however.
Like any submission you have to be almost excessive in how much force you use or they will writhe free, which I guess you know.
There are moves like this with tonfa that are taught to most police forces around the world today and they are probably on the net.
But to tell you the truth, as cool as it is to study this stuff (Short Staff, learned from Masaru Shintani before he died, long staff, Shifu Wang Kai, here in China.), I'd never use it if I was in a fight - never.
I personally advocate repeated and concussive blows to the head in any situation where your life is at risk.
Few karate schools teach this kind of stuff for any other reason than fending off their feeling of boredom over practicing punches to the head week in and week out for years and even decades.
Hunt head. It's simple and much more effective. This fancy shit is just that.....
