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Hand lever: Te kubi garami - Hand flexor lever

Advantage: Head and upper body are also fixed Also applicable in the ground Disadvantage: Unstable position of the defender

Here the aggressor is fix in a lateral position by a variant of the hand flexor lever (Te kubi garami).
The aggressor is placed in the bottom layer using a shoulder lever.

Use at opposite grip to the wrist:

The non gripped hand grips the wrist of the attacking hand, in a way that the fingers press from the outside onto the inner wrist of the aggressor. The grip will be loosed by a inner rotation of the wrist, doing this the defender rotates about 180° next to the aggressors side; at the side of the gripping hand. The gripping arm will be stretched by pulling.

The free forearm is placed in to the hollow of the fixed elbow and the hand grips on the own upper forearm, wich holds the gripping hand. During a body rotation away from the aggressor, he is brought by this rotational movement backwards into the ground. The aggressor lands on the side of the non fixed arm.

The defender is located laterally at the back of the aggressor and fixes him by the help of knee pressure on to the lower ribs as well as on the side of the head. The bended elbow of the aggressors is located between the upper legs of the defender, here the elbow tip points upwards and the hand is bended at the wrist.

By pulling the fixed hand of the aggressor upwards with both hands, the hand flexor lever (Te kubi garami) takes effect. Additional there is the pressure on the body with both knees to get a secure fixation.