Grandmaster Dr Ted Gambordella

I have always loved to do wrist locks since I first began my martial arts training over 35 years ago. From the very beginning I knew that wrist locks were one of the most effective control techniques of the Martial Arts and one that didn't require a lot of strength, speed or stamina. But they did require a lot of practice. For even the simplest wristlock is very sophisticated and though they may look very simple to the average observer they are in fact very difficult to master. It is always...

Basic Wrist locking Positions

The human wrist is a marvelous thing. It can bend forward and backwards, and make circles right and left. It can bend up and down and a little sideways, but it definitely has it limitations on where and how far it can bend in any of these directions. And the entire art of wrist locking is in knowing how and where to over bend and over stretch the wrist to cause severe and immense pain and disable or control your attacker. Lets look at the ways to bend a wrist so that pain is caused and one can...