In a fight, your strength and size matter. But if you do not know how to use your strength to defend yourself, the more you try to escape, the more you will be trapped. That's why learning martial art and self defense are very important when it comes to defending yourself in real life.
A double should lock is also known as a nelson lock. In case you do not know what the nelson lock is, as soon as you hear a double shoulder lock, you get an idea that the attacker will grab your arms and lock your both shoulder.
The attacker usually gets close to you from behind and puts his hands under your arms and locks your shoulders while putting pressure on your neck back. You can watch this video (from 1: 34 to 2:14 minutes). You will see how this lock looks like and it also shows what to do to defend yourself. All video credit goes to Kalaripayattu Kerala.
Self Defense Technique 1
To defend yourself against this lock, you can raise your hands to grab the attacker's hair or ears. Then turn and move him in front of you. You can make him fall on the ground if you like. What you just watched in the video, that's one of the effective techniques.
There are some mistakes that you can make in this situation. When the attacker grabs and locks your shoulder, you try to move here and there, and use your strength to get rid of this. The attacker can simply grab you right and put more pressure on your neck. This is painful. And as a result, you will be in a more vulnerable position.
Self Defense Technique 2
As soon as the attacker does a nelson lock, raise your hands and grab the attacker's head. Then you bend forward and throw the attacker in front of you. Here you use your body as a lever. That's why you can throw even a stronger attacker. The key is, grab the attacker's head first and then use your body to throw the attacker in front of you.
Self Defense Technique 3
For some reason, you cannot grab the attacker's head or you are a woman and the attacker is bigger and stronger. He moves his head back while locking you and you are not able to grab the attacker's hair, ear, or head. So what is the simple and highly effective technique that anyone can apply to escape a double shoulder lock?
In order to defend yourself against this double shoulder lock, raise your both hands up to the sky. Then quickly sit down on the ground. The attacker cannot grab and lock you anymore. You can strike him and leave the place as soon as you can.
I hope you will find these self defense techniques useful. You have to spend some time to practice so that you can apply it when the time comes. Please feel free to share your thoughts and experience in the comment section.
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I am not sure if you have had any experience with Systema? In Systema classes, they don't teach you specific techniques. The teacher starts with some general descriptions and demonstrations of specific types of scenarios, and then the class members pair up and start to play with it. You improvise a response, and see how it works, repeat until you start to get the feel of appropriate responses. Then you swap roles of perp and victim, and and repeat until you both have developed ways of responding that work.
It's a unique training method out of all the martial arts I have trained in, and is extremely effective. I call it 'unlearning' because you aren't being drilled. You are simply 'forgetting' the wrong way to do it.
Working with class members helps you figure out what is more effective. When you make any move, your training partner will respond to it. You get to see what happens. Thank you for your feedback!
If I remember correctly, Spetsnaz (special forces of russia) train 6 months in Systema and though of course they aren't masters after this, they are still highly effective. Systema also spends a lot of time on teaching evasion techniques, rolling on the ground in various ways. The scenario you talk about in this article we did a couple of similar scenarios during the 10 classes I took at Systema. I hope I can continue my training, ideally under Mihail Ryabko or Vladimir Vasiliev.
But yes, having an enthusiastic training partner is very important. It is also important that, though you will start out soft and slow, that you increase speed and force as you get more familiar with the movements, and most important and primary self defense skill is running and evasion. That means a little bit of parcour type stuff, practising jumping off walls to give you a little distance, vaulting fences and climbing taller ones, and , yeah, number 1 important thing is to sense an attacker soon enough before they even get within rock throwing distance. You might walk wide of suspicious people 100 times and 1 time you give yourself the edge that avoids a conflict altogether. An Escrima teacher (philippino stick fighting) who I went to train with we had a first conversation and he basically said that the first thing you have to learn is how to avoid a fight altogether, and that wanting a fight makes you an unsuitable student (I didn't see him again). I had been attacked though I was pretty much also provoking these assholes back, not long before.
I think that's what every martial artist wants. If you avoid the fight, that's the best thing you can do. Maybe you can talk and change the attacker's intention. Everything does not necessarily have to end up in a fight.