Giles wrote:Bao,
OK, would you say a little more about this?
Assumptions: when someone manages to get his hand or arm on your neck with enough strength to grab:
1. If possible stay aligned, don't bend but sink and rotate hips and thus neck in the force direction (clockwise/anticlockwise) of the grab to blend, neutralize and counter. Also using arms etc. to reinforce the impulse.
...Why are you so against it?
Now one would just go into a clinch and stay there. Grabbing neck and attack with the knee or anything else happens at the same time, everything happens fast, not first one and then two. Last time (20 years ago) someone grabbed my neck and tried to attack with me a knee, I just pushed away my his right knee to the side with my left hand, stepped in and pushed him away with my right hand so he fell on his back. I didn't even consider that he grabbed for my neck, I went for the body following his own movement. Easy peasy.
But if you're too late with that, or it doesn't work, then I think 2. the technique in the video is a good second option.
Never consider a second chance. If you are too late, as in the gif where the guy can't even hold his hands up, you are already gone. There's no time for "2". If your timing is off on "1" it means that you suck. And that you lie bleeding on the floor will be proof enough.
oragami_itto wrote:He exhibits the "not resisting" to prevent being pulled here. If you resist, you get pulled, so ideally here you're moving ahead of the pull.
If you can reach his centreline (or even his upper arms) as he grabs your neck you won't need to resist. Just follow and fill in. Simple.
.... the problems as always when it comes to defensive techniques as always is intellectually overly complicating. Instead, scale it down and keep it simple.