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 689 RIORIATIONS Fig. 5. The final movement, stepping forward with the right foot and pressing on the captured arm so that a fall for the victim ^ is inevitable then forced over and outward, so that the back of the hand is turned towards the ground, and at the same tirne the elbow is drawn by the right hand sHghtly forward. The pressure must not be relaxed. The re- sult of the exertion of this double and contrary pressure is that a strain is placed upon the elbow- joint that it is not designed to bear ; and as the defender forces her assailant's arm further backward and down- ward, the latter 's whole body is compelled to follow the movement. With the hold properly obtained and the strain rightly applied, the victim has no choice but to submit. And her other arm is powerless for all offensive purposes. All the wriggling and straining in the world will be unable to effect release if the defender will take care to bend her victim's arm in such fashion as to allow of no possibility of it being straightened. Should she wish to throw her assailant to the ground (and the fall will be a very severe one if she choose to make it so), nothing is more easy. For the assailant to stand with the right foot advanced, as in the illustra- tion, is most usual, and cf this the defender takes full advantage. Having secured the wrist and elbow hold, she steps forward with her right foot, across and outside her op- ponent's right foot, and somewhat behind it. her own heel just at the back of the other's, for choice. Then, as she presses on the captured arm, she will lean forward slightly, and her assailant will be thrown violently backwards across her leg to the ground, without hope of avoiding a heavy fall. If preferred, when the right foot is thus brought behind, a sharp hook or jerk may D 67 be given, cutting away the assailant 8 foot. This renders the fall more severe. Fig. 6 represents the end of a verv clean and effective trick that changes swiftly the position of a would-be assailant into absolute helplessness and inability to do harm. Assailant and defender have been squarely facing each other, and the defender has taken what is no more or less than an ordinary hand-clasp, as in shaking hands. She has then thrown up the arm. and swung round to her left, bringing her left side to her opponent's right side, and at the same time extending her own left arm under the captured limb. The assailant's arm is now fixed. The inside of the wrist is uppermost, and the defender's rigid left arm. crossing the limb just above the elbow (this is important), supplies the fulcrum for a levering move- ment, rendering the limb powerless, as will be appreciated when her hand is forced down and her shoulder raised. She can be pushed or moved wherever her captor pleases, and is incapable of retaliation. It is well for the defender's (the one showing the trick) left arm to be held so that the outer edge, and not the front, of the wrist is uppermost. The hand may grip the coat. An experienced jiu-jitsuist never attacks ; she waits always for an assailant to make some offensive movement, and out of that very movement snatches her opportunity for effective defence — a defence which produces utter helplessness in the assailant. To be coniiniied Fj«. 6. An effective and simple combat trick which will at one* render helpless a would'be assailant I Z