If you can understand and take advantage of the 'wrist, elbow and shoulder' relationship, you'll have taken full advantage of your wrists.
Contracting your wrists allows for your own elbows to be extended with much more ease. When your wrist is contracted and not grabbing anything, it makes for a great pivot point on the ground. Remember to try to relax your shoulder when doing this for it will move with you tori allowing for easy recoveries. Finally, contracting elbows and extending wrists. This can be useful to bring yourself or your opponent closer to each other. Whether this be to save yourself or throw your opponent of balance.
These are especially useful in aikido and spirit wrestling mods.
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Originally Posted by
boStaff
if you don't know how to counter contracted wrists then you probably deserve to lose
Let this be a note to my above comment.
Non of these techniques are fool proof and will most likely be countered to some degree. But taking advantage of them allow for greater control and sometimes make or break a match.
Last edited by JayStar; Apr 24, 2013 at 06:50 AM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump