Personal Space Comments

Well, Breda and JayG (On the sidebar - The Breda Fallacy and Marooned) both did nice write ups on how to deal with someone in your personal space. Since they did such a good job I don't really have anything I can add to their comments.

So in the same line of thought I figured I would share some of my training with you on what to do if someone grabs your writs after they are in your space. Now the normal disclaimers are in force, you need to practice these moves for them to work and I am not responsible if you do them wrong and they don't work. . . If you like this kind of think I strongly suggest looking into a martial arts school in your area. Make sure they are not a sport club but actually deal with self defense issues. . ..

With that said here we go:
What to do if someone grabs your wrist
Assume the person is facing you -
1 If they grab the same side (your right hand with their left hand). Twist your wrist toward the attackers thumb and pull your hand away quickly.
2 If they grab the opposite side (your right hand with their right hand). Twist your hand toward the attackers thumb and pull away (twist is opposite of 1)
3 If they use both hands to grab one of your hands. Reach under your held hand and grab your held hand from underneath with free your hand. Bring your hands around in a big circle in front of you. Use your free hand to pull the held hand around keeping your elbows locked. Wrap up attackers hands under your arm and the attacker is now open to a punch/palm heel to the face
4 If both of your hands are hands are held (your right hand in his left, and your left in his right). Pull your hands apart and knee to groin. If you can’t move his hands then try to bring your hands together. He will try to keep them apart. When he goes to pull your hands apart let him (stop resisting his pull), opening him up for the groin strike
5 An alternate for #4 is for you to pull your hands/arms apart. When the attacker tries to resist you then pull your hands together so that you can pry one hand off. Twist under the arm still holding you and come up behind the person where you can strike or kick attacker
6 If they grab one hand an alternate move is to bend your wrist and try to bring your finger tips to touch the inside of your wrist. As you do this bring your arm up quickly over your head. This should break his grip. You can then bring your hand back down in a strike to the neck/collar bone
7 If they grab one hand an alternate move is to bend your wrist and try to bring your finger tips to touch the inside of your wrist. Keep your elbow in and bring hand up over your head. As you raise your hand step off to side and bring hand down to strike chest with an open palm strike.
8 This move assumes the person went to shake hands with you or otherwise grabbed your hand and tried to twist your arm behind back( done by lifting your arm up and stepping under it so they end up behind you. The counter is to spin with it turning your back to the attacker and grab attackers hand. The attacker should end up next to your free arm with you holding his hand behind your back. Use your free arm to drive an elbow strike to the attackers face. Bring free arm around in a big circle with your arm fully extended and break the attackers elbow.

Anyway, that is my two cents and with practice these moves will work. You need to know them cold so you can do them quickly and surprise the person. If you do them slow the attacker will know something is up and they probable won't let go of you. . .

Hope you found this useful. . . If folks like this kind of info I can post more defense moves.