Tehodoki - untying the hands

I rather call it a 'hand release or grab release'. Basically, it's how to remove someones grip.

A very useful technique to get out of a wrist/arm grab or removing a weapon from someones hands. There's a variety of ways to do it, but I'll just show you a video as an example:



Basically, to remove someones grip, you have to find their weak point in their grip. The weak point of their grip is usually away from the opponents palm. That is, the space between the thumb and fingers.

For example in the picture below:

opponent grabs hands

the person who's hand was grabbed, directs it away from palm to open up his grip

Also, anything that will help lose the power in his grip will make it easier to release it. For example, putting his mind off of your hand (distraction), increasing the space of his grip (making your fist into a palm or wedging an object between your wrist), hitting his hand and so forth.

This is the same principle if your opponent holds a weapon. You just need to pull his weapon away from his palm to release his grip. I will show you an example in another post.

Bujinkan and Eagle Claw (Ying Jow Pow) use a lot of these techniques. This is hard to explain, but if someone shows you, you can see how effective it can be. I will follow up this post soon.

Ninja0