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But gradually my suspicions were aroused that he had another hold. None of my other teachers ever tried such a hold on me, and I never saw it used in matches or practices in the large schools.
Asked point blank what method he was using, he would very conscientiously demonstrate the rear strangle, stoutly denying that he ever used anything else, or that any other hold existed, except, as he hinted, in my vivid and suspicious imagination.
One day the chance came for which I was waiting. I left an opening for the rear strangle and quick as a flash he applied it. Simultaneously I placed my right hand on top of my head, and my left hand on my left shoulder, and discovered of course that he was not using the ordinary rear strangle.
When I recovered consciousness (I could not make the signal of defeat as my hands were busy investigating his grip), I told the professor that I had proved that he had another grip which he was hiding from me. My kind instructor thereupon thought that such perseverance and merit should be rewarded suitably, which he thereupon did, by imparting the secret Death Lock to me.
Lesson 53. Escape from Death Lock.
Lesson 54. Dislocation Death Lock - from which there is no escape.
Lesson 55. Scissors Death Lock.
Lesson 56. Scissors Death Lock on a man crawling ahead of you.
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Lesson 57. Preliminary practice in Standing Death Lock.
Lesson 58. Special exercise in pulling a man back.
Lesson 59. The Standing Death Lock.
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Make a check mark against each lesson each day you practice it.
THE ESCAPE
Seize your opponent's right sleeve above the elbow with both hands. Tug his elbow forward. At the same time , turn your chin into his right elbow.
Pull him down over your right shoulder.
If the escape be executed before Assailant gets his full pressure on your neck, it is easy to get away.
NOTE ON THE IMPORANCE OF THE STAHARA
Take the Death Lock on opponent seated, putting strength into the arms only, and standing with the Stahara limp and relaxed. Let opponent execute the escape and note how easily you go over his shoulder.
Again take the Death Lock, this time with balance in your Stahara. Again let him try to escape, and note how easily you can frustrate his attempt.
THE DEATH LOCK - DISLOCATION
Take the Death Lock position.
With the weight of your body, press opponent's head forward. At the same time step back six inches with the right foot, pulling his neck back with your right forearm By this combination of strangulation and dislocation, the weakest man can make the strongest man quit, or, in case of warfare, kill him.
Let your first experiments with this deadly hold be cautious. Better do it slowly and gently until you gradually get it, than do it energetically, and succeed the first time, but so roughly that your opponent declines to let you do it any more.
If you do it gently, not only is there no danger, but no discomfort.
From this hold, there is no escape.
THE SECRET SCISSORS DEATH LOCK
Squat down behind opponent and take the Death Lock hold exactly as in figure 232. Practice this formally until you are proficient. Afterwards the lock may be used in various combinations.
Let opponent try to escape by straightening his knees and pushing you over backwards, slowly. Keep tight hold on his neck. (The knowledge of this trick is not very general amongst the jujitsu fraternity. The possession of this secret gives the lucky man an immense advantage in matches.)
Let him roll you right over onto your back. Wrap your legs around his thighs. Choke him by pressure of the sharp wrist-bone on his throat.
You can make a man unconscious instantaneously by this trick.
The inside wrinkle to this trick, which makes it doubly effective, is to raise your Stahara. This extends his body, "unbalances him," and weakens his power of resistance.
Make sure that your wrestling partner understands the signal of defeat, and release him the instant he quits. There is no danger in practice, only do it slowly at first.
SCISSORS DEATH LOCK ON A MAN WHO IS CRAWLING AHEAD OF YOU
If you are on patrol duty and see an enemy ahead of you whom you must "get" without letting him give the alarm, steal up silently and get him unawares.
Get your right wrist around his neck, as already learnt in the ordinary Death Lock. Clasp your right hand with your left. Press the right side of your face against the left side of his. This grip will silence him.
Roll either to the right or the left, pulling him after you. Wrap your legs around his thighs to prevent his escaping, and choke him with the pressure of the sharp wrist-bone on his windpipe.
You get an additional leverage and weaken his resistance by raising your Stahara.
This trick may be used with great effect on a burglar, if such a gentleman pay you a professional visit and you catch him unawares.
Practice on grass or a carpet, and do it slowly and carefully.
This is the first time that a description of this deadly hold has been reduced to writing, or photographed.
PRELIMINARY PRACTICE IN THE STANDING DEATH LOCK
Simultaneously place your knee on opponent's back, and your hands on his shoulders, and throw him into position of figure 240. Before you try this, practice lessons shown at figures 222-224, and figure 227. This method would be useful against a very tall opponent whose neck you could not reach with your wrist. But for all ordinary opponents, the method shown in figures 242-245 is safer and quicker.
By the time his head is on your shoulder, you have secured the Death Lock and he is giving the signal of defeat.
A summary method of dispatching him would be to step back, bringing his seat smartly to the ground, when the impact will break his neck. Ability to keep your balance is the first essential in this trick, both for safety in practice and efficiency in execution.
SPECIAL EXERCISE IN PULLING A MAN BACK
To become expert in the Standing Death Lock, pass your hand in front of opponent's neck, as in figure 243, and pull him back into position of figure 241.
Drop your hands to your side. Let the back of opponent's neck rest on top of your shoulder (the Trapezius muscle). Do this, not by strength, but by unbalancing him. Guard against the sharp edge of your wrist choking him as you pull back. Be gentle.
Practice it with your opponent standing still until you find the correct angle at which to unbalance him, at right angles to his line of support. (See Book Five.) Soon you will unbalance him more quickly than he can step back.
Some men are never able to do the Death Lock because they rest the back of opponent's head or neck on their chest, thus exerting pressure in the wrong place. Some of my biggest and strongest pupils have been the slowest and most clumsy because they persisted in doing it with the strength of their arms. They could not use their bodies aright. This special exercise soon corrected that fault.
THE STANDING DEATH LOCK
Steal up behind opponent so softly that he does not hear you. Do not try this trick until you have mastered previous lessons. This trick is perfectly safe if you first master the preliminary exercises. But if you try this trick immediately on getting the book without previous training, I shall not be responsible for any injuries.
Pass your right wrist in front of his neck, with the wrist straight, and your sharp wrist-bone against his windpipe.
In practice be gentle. In actual attack knock him out, or at least render him speechless, by a sharp blow on the windpipe with the wrist.
Pull him back into position of figure 244, with the back of his head wresting between your neck and shoulder, and strangle him.
Practice it slowly.
By adding the process of dislocation to that of strangulation (that is, by getting him into position of figure 245), you make the hold twice as effective.
Practice the lesson of the Death Lock seated before you try it standing up.
HOW TO TEST YOUR EFFICIENCY IN THE DEATH LOCK
Have your partner stand with his back to you, six feet away. Tell him to call "Help" as soon as he feels you touch him. Steal up behind him and get him in the Death Lock before he can call out.
You are handicapped by the fact that he is expecting your attack, but even so, you will be able to get him
Remember that in an actual attack you would not take him gently, but would strike him so smartly on the neck hat he would be incapable of uttering a sound. Do not try this test until you have practiced for two weeks according to instructions. You will then be able to apply it without hurting your partner. You have all the rest of your life to practice in, so why run the risk of injuring a friend by trying the test without due preparation?
NEVER FOOL WITH THE DEATH LOCK
The Death Lock is too sacred and serious a thing to utilize in horseplay.
A jujitsu man practices hard for about an hour a day, and that is enough for him. When off the mat, he leaves it alone and thinks it beneath his dignity to fool around with dangerous tricks where there is a chance of accident from a slippery floor or a sharp corner. Avoid practical jokes around the office, or the parlor, or any other place where people are not expecting rough play.
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Asked point blank what method he was using, he would very conscientiously demonstrate the rear strangle, stoutly denying that he ever used anything else, or that any other hold existed, except, as he hinted, in my vivid and suspicious imagination.
One day the chance came for which I was waiting. I left an opening for the rear strangle and quick as a flash he applied it. Simultaneously I placed my right hand on top of my head, and my left hand on my left shoulder, and discovered of course that he was not using the ordinary rear strangle.
When I recovered consciousness (I could not make the signal of defeat as my hands were busy investigating his grip), I told the professor that I had proved that he had another grip which he was hiding from me. My kind instructor thereupon thought that such perseverance and merit should be rewarded suitably, which he thereupon did, by imparting the secret Death Lock to me.
Lesson 53. Escape from Death Lock.
Lesson 54. Dislocation Death Lock - from which there is no escape.
Lesson 55. Scissors Death Lock.
Lesson 56. Scissors Death Lock on a man crawling ahead of you.
Name of Partner Date Commenced Lesson 53 Lesson 54 Lesson 55 Lesson 56
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Lesson 57. Preliminary practice in Standing Death Lock.
Lesson 58. Special exercise in pulling a man back.
Lesson 59. The Standing Death Lock.
Name of Partner Date Commenced Lesson 57 Lesson 58 Lesson 59
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Make a check mark against each lesson each day you practice it.
THE ESCAPE
Seize your opponent's right sleeve above the elbow with both hands. Tug his elbow forward. At the same time , turn your chin into his right elbow.
Pull him down over your right shoulder.
If the escape be executed before Assailant gets his full pressure on your neck, it is easy to get away.
NOTE ON THE IMPORANCE OF THE STAHARA
Take the Death Lock on opponent seated, putting strength into the arms only, and standing with the Stahara limp and relaxed. Let opponent execute the escape and note how easily you go over his shoulder.
Again take the Death Lock, this time with balance in your Stahara. Again let him try to escape, and note how easily you can frustrate his attempt.
THE DEATH LOCK - DISLOCATION
Take the Death Lock position.
With the weight of your body, press opponent's head forward. At the same time step back six inches with the right foot, pulling his neck back with your right forearm By this combination of strangulation and dislocation, the weakest man can make the strongest man quit, or, in case of warfare, kill him.
Let your first experiments with this deadly hold be cautious. Better do it slowly and gently until you gradually get it, than do it energetically, and succeed the first time, but so roughly that your opponent declines to let you do it any more.
If you do it gently, not only is there no danger, but no discomfort.
From this hold, there is no escape.
THE SECRET SCISSORS DEATH LOCK
Squat down behind opponent and take the Death Lock hold exactly as in figure 232. Practice this formally until you are proficient. Afterwards the lock may be used in various combinations.
Let opponent try to escape by straightening his knees and pushing you over backwards, slowly. Keep tight hold on his neck. (The knowledge of this trick is not very general amongst the jujitsu fraternity. The possession of this secret gives the lucky man an immense advantage in matches.)
Let him roll you right over onto your back. Wrap your legs around his thighs. Choke him by pressure of the sharp wrist-bone on his throat.
You can make a man unconscious instantaneously by this trick.
The inside wrinkle to this trick, which makes it doubly effective, is to raise your Stahara. This extends his body, "unbalances him," and weakens his power of resistance.
Make sure that your wrestling partner understands the signal of defeat, and release him the instant he quits. There is no danger in practice, only do it slowly at first.
SCISSORS DEATH LOCK ON A MAN WHO IS CRAWLING AHEAD OF YOU
If you are on patrol duty and see an enemy ahead of you whom you must "get" without letting him give the alarm, steal up silently and get him unawares.
Get your right wrist around his neck, as already learnt in the ordinary Death Lock. Clasp your right hand with your left. Press the right side of your face against the left side of his. This grip will silence him.
Roll either to the right or the left, pulling him after you. Wrap your legs around his thighs to prevent his escaping, and choke him with the pressure of the sharp wrist-bone on his windpipe.
You get an additional leverage and weaken his resistance by raising your Stahara.
This trick may be used with great effect on a burglar, if such a gentleman pay you a professional visit and you catch him unawares.
Practice on grass or a carpet, and do it slowly and carefully.
This is the first time that a description of this deadly hold has been reduced to writing, or photographed.
PRELIMINARY PRACTICE IN THE STANDING DEATH LOCK
Simultaneously place your knee on opponent's back, and your hands on his shoulders, and throw him into position of figure 240. Before you try this, practice lessons shown at figures 222-224, and figure 227. This method would be useful against a very tall opponent whose neck you could not reach with your wrist. But for all ordinary opponents, the method shown in figures 242-245 is safer and quicker.
By the time his head is on your shoulder, you have secured the Death Lock and he is giving the signal of defeat.
A summary method of dispatching him would be to step back, bringing his seat smartly to the ground, when the impact will break his neck. Ability to keep your balance is the first essential in this trick, both for safety in practice and efficiency in execution.
SPECIAL EXERCISE IN PULLING A MAN BACK
To become expert in the Standing Death Lock, pass your hand in front of opponent's neck, as in figure 243, and pull him back into position of figure 241.
Drop your hands to your side. Let the back of opponent's neck rest on top of your shoulder (the Trapezius muscle). Do this, not by strength, but by unbalancing him. Guard against the sharp edge of your wrist choking him as you pull back. Be gentle.
Practice it with your opponent standing still until you find the correct angle at which to unbalance him, at right angles to his line of support. (See Book Five.) Soon you will unbalance him more quickly than he can step back.
Some men are never able to do the Death Lock because they rest the back of opponent's head or neck on their chest, thus exerting pressure in the wrong place. Some of my biggest and strongest pupils have been the slowest and most clumsy because they persisted in doing it with the strength of their arms. They could not use their bodies aright. This special exercise soon corrected that fault.
THE STANDING DEATH LOCK
Steal up behind opponent so softly that he does not hear you. Do not try this trick until you have mastered previous lessons. This trick is perfectly safe if you first master the preliminary exercises. But if you try this trick immediately on getting the book without previous training, I shall not be responsible for any injuries.
Pass your right wrist in front of his neck, with the wrist straight, and your sharp wrist-bone against his windpipe.
In practice be gentle. In actual attack knock him out, or at least render him speechless, by a sharp blow on the windpipe with the wrist.
Pull him back into position of figure 244, with the back of his head wresting between your neck and shoulder, and strangle him.
Practice it slowly.
By adding the process of dislocation to that of strangulation (that is, by getting him into position of figure 245), you make the hold twice as effective.
Practice the lesson of the Death Lock seated before you try it standing up.
HOW TO TEST YOUR EFFICIENCY IN THE DEATH LOCK
Have your partner stand with his back to you, six feet away. Tell him to call "Help" as soon as he feels you touch him. Steal up behind him and get him in the Death Lock before he can call out.
You are handicapped by the fact that he is expecting your attack, but even so, you will be able to get him
Remember that in an actual attack you would not take him gently, but would strike him so smartly on the neck hat he would be incapable of uttering a sound. Do not try this test until you have practiced for two weeks according to instructions. You will then be able to apply it without hurting your partner. You have all the rest of your life to practice in, so why run the risk of injuring a friend by trying the test without due preparation?
NEVER FOOL WITH THE DEATH LOCK
The Death Lock is too sacred and serious a thing to utilize in horseplay.
A jujitsu man practices hard for about an hour a day, and that is enough for him. When off the mat, he leaves it alone and thinks it beneath his dignity to fool around with dangerous tricks where there is a chance of accident from a slippery floor or a sharp corner. Avoid practical jokes around the office, or the parlor, or any other place where people are not expecting rough play.
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