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Practice Lessons 9 and 10 until you no longer hesitate about applying the proper escape when your wrists are seized with Assailant's thumb above.
Then practice Lesson 11 until you act without hesitation, with the correct escape, when Assailant's thumb above.
You will then never be confused, no matter how your wrists are seized. A man might seize one of your wrists with one thumb down and your other wrist with his thumb up. Do not pay any attention to these variations until you have mastered the fundamental methods given here. You will then be able to take care of all the variations.
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These lessons are built with a view to the cumulative effect on your manner of handling yourself. You will do all the other lessons better after you have studied Book 3, and will do Book 3 better after you have studied the others.
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There are numerous other ways of escaping from wrist holds, but the object of this course has been not to dazzle the eye by an infinite variety of tricks, but to train you to do some essential tricks with the real knack of a jujitsu man, by using the other fellow's strength against him, and by reinforcing the strength of your limbs by the strength of your Stahara.
For this purpose you are made to do certain movements while Assailant is holding you in various ways, and the sum total of the experience you get will be that you begin to use your body properly.
The Secrets of Jujitsu, A Complete Course in Self Defense, Book IV
By Captain Allan Corstorphin Smith, U.S.A.
Winner of the Black Belt, Japan, 1916. Instructor of Hand-to-Hand Fighting, THE INFANTRY SCHOOL, Camp Benning, Columbus, Georgia and at United States Training Camps and Cantonments, 1917 and 1918.
In Seven Books.
BOOK FOUR
STAHARA PUBLISHING COMPANY
Columbus, Georgia, 1920.
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This electronic version is copyright EJMAS © 2000. All rights reserved.
Contributed by Thomas J. Militello, a 15-year member of Astoria, New York's non-profit Horangi Taekwondo Dojang, which is headed by James Robison.
Readers interested in seeing film images should note the following film held by the National Archives and Record Administration:
NWDNM(m)-111-H-1180.
Title: Physical and Bayonet Training, 1918.
Scope and Content: Recruits at Camp Gordon, Georgia receive detailed instruction in boxing and jiu-jitsu. Wrestling and jiu-jitsu holds are used against a foe with a bayonet. Troops do calisthenics and play rough games calculated to make them physically fit.
35mm film, 15 minutes
See also Don W. Farrant, "Vintage Jujitsu: World War I Style," .
Judging from responses from the US Army historians at Forts Myer and Benning, little biographical information is available concerning Captain Smith. Therefore readers with additional information are requested to contact the editor at jrsvinth@juno.com .
SEIZED FROM BEHIND -- Fig. 82
If an assailant seizes you around the waist from behind, you may be able to get one of his fingers and so pry his grip open.
If he is a strong man, however, you will have difficulty in getting hold of a finger, and you will simply lose time making the effort.
Further, you will accomplish little, even if you break his hold, for he is still behind you and can strike you, or get a hold on you.
In a real fight if you broke his fingers he would kick, with more effect on you than breaking his fingers had on him.
LESSON 12
This lesson teaches you --
How to make the elbow blow to the solar plexus when seized from behind above the arms.
It also teaches you to keep your balance, and makes you expert in the use of the elbow blow under any circumstances.

Name of Partner Date Commenced Elbow blow to the solar plexus when seized form behind above arms
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Make a check mark against each trick each day you practice it.


SEIZED AROUND WAIST FROM BEHIND ABOVE ARMS
"TAKE HOLD".
When an Assailant seizes you around the waist from behind the most effective defense and the quickest escape is the elbow blow.
"ONE"
If his great strength makes movement impossible, stamp with your heel on his instep or kick him savagely on the shin.
Such a trick will momentarily weaken his hold and in that psychological moment twist down and out.
In practice make the kick with the strength of your whole body, not merely with the leg muscles. "Put your Stahara into it," but stop a few inches from the mark at which you aim.
"TWO"
Slip down through his arms, turning the left hip forward, swinging on the balls of the feet, making the effort from the Stahara.
Simultaneously bring your right elbow directly in front and six or eight inches away from his solar plexus (the pit of his stomach).
"THREE'
Drive your elbow into his solar plexus. In practice put all your force into the blow but stop it three or four inches from the target.
This blow properly delivered will knock him out. If not, repeat it till he drops.
Assailant must hold you lightly. In a real attack he would hold you tightly but the kick you would give would loosen his grip.
In order not to forget this kick in a real fight always practice it, counting audibly:

"TAKE HOLD" Assailant seizes you.
"ONE" Simulate the kick with all your strength.
"TWO" Twist down out of his grip, bringing elbow forward.
"THREE" Drive elbow back.
You will soon acquire a Houdini-like expertness in wriggling out of Assailant's grip, if you practice steadily. This practice is a most valuable exercise as it reaches every muscle in your body and teaches you to coordinate your movements.
It makes you alert and able to take advantage of an opening. The untrained man would be so clumsy, and delay so long after the kick, that he would lose the advantage of Assailant's momentary weakness.
When an Assailant has you in any kind of a grip that prevents your delivering a vital blow, always make a primary attack, which, though not sufficient in itself to defeat him, puts you in a position to deliver the real blow.
This practice trains you in the principle. Merely reading it is not enough, you must practice it.
This is a course in Fighting Jujitsu, not Competitive Jujitsu, so do not get the idea that kicking is allowed in a Jujitsu mach. This practice must all be done formally.
In repeated practices, the man behind knows what you are going to do each time, and it is an easy matter for him to prevent you by tightening his arms every time start making a move, and by dropping his body with you every time you drop.
This is a useless way to practice. The man who takes the role of Assailant must reproduce the conditions of an actual fight in which you would execute your defense before Assailant had time to change his tactics.
Repeated practice will make you quick enough to knock a man out before he grips with his full strength.
Practicing this trick will develop your reflex action until you have a hair-trigger mind.


LESSON 13
This lesson teaches you --
How to make the elbow blow to the neck when seized from behind below the arms.
It gives you further experience in keeping your balance, and in becoming expert with the elbow blow.

Name of Partner Date Commenced Elbow blow to the neck when seized from behind below arms
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Make a check mark against each trick each day you practice it.


DEFENCE WHEN SEIZED BELOW ARMS FROM BEHIND
"ONE"
When an Assailant seizes you around your waist from behind, passing his arms beneath your arms, you cannot strike him in the solar plexus with your elbow, his arms are in the way.
First strike him violently on the nose with the back of your head.
In practice put all your strength into this effort. Make the whole body deliver the blow, not the neck muscles alone.
Stop the blow a few inches from his nose.
"TWO"
His head flies back and his muscles loosen, momentarily at least.
At this moment swing your right elbow round onto his neck or the point of his jaw, making the blow come not from the arm muscles but from the Stahara.
Turn on the balls of the feet.
"THREE"
If he ducks to the left swing to your left and give him your left elbow on the jaw or the neck.
Stop the blow a couple of inches from the target but put all your force into it.
As he staggers back repeat the blow to the abdomen, giving him the quietus.


QUICK THINKING IN MOMEMENTS OF DANGER
You hear a lot about "Quick-thinking" in moments of danger. Most of the quick-thinking is simply the trained man's subconscious acting as it has been trained to do by long practice.
This course will train you in this way. You will begin to realize this when you instinctively give the elbow blow to the solar plexus when seized above the arms and to the neck when seized below the arms.
Merely reading this course will not train you to readiness of action but practice of these two tricks will.


WHEN ATTACKED BY A RUSH FROM BEHIND
The elbow blow has a far wider field of application than the two examples given here.
The best way to deal with a rush from a footpad who attacks you suddenly from some dark alley, at night, is the elbow blow.
The way to acquire an ability to use it in any emergency is to practice these two tricks till it becomes second nature to use your body in the correct manner.
COUNT AUDIBLY AS YOU PRACTICE

"TAKE HOLD" Assailant seizes you.
"ONE" Simulate butting him on the nose. (Your partner must loosen his grip and let his head go back.
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