2025-07-14

Teaching my regular classes at the Ross Farnsworth - East Valley YMCA.

Tonight’s class was very small, so we worked on applications, as those generally require a bit more personalized attention. We worked on same-side and cross-side wrist grab escapes from Heian Shodan. The first move can be used to escape from a cross-side wrist grab, pull the attacker to your left, and then step through with a lunge punch. The fourth move can be used as a same-side wrist grab escape followed by a strike to the face (as it is typically taught), or as a cross-side wrist grab escape where the bottom-fist strike is the escape.