Getting
caught in a hair pull can be dangerous and painful, and you can end
up in a vary precarious position. Suddenly the head goes forward and
down in front of your body -- balance and strength are lost.
For this reason, the hair pull is a preferred way to control someone.
Women are especially vulnerable because they tend to have longer hair.
So, what can you do? The most important rule to remember is to follow
the energy and not fight it. That means when someone pulls, you don't
pull back.
How to get out of the hair pull depends on whether or not you saw it
coming. In a perfect world you would be alert all the time, so if attacked
you could easily thwart the attack. But unfortunately, you may not see
it coming; you may find yourself hit first, or pulled from behind. It
is therefore valuable to know how to counter a hair pull in either situation:
first, if you see the attack coming and can respond, and second, if
the attack comes as a surprise and the next thing you know you are bent
over. We also discuss escaping from a hair pull if the attack is just
a playful fooling around by a friend or relative.
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If You See It Coming And Are Prepared
Again, the first rule is not to pull back. This means that as the attacker pulls, you move inward.
If you see the hair pull coming, instead of allowing your head to be jerked forward, you follow the attacker's energy and move yourself toward him or her. In this case, you also step and turn your body so that you are in a small horse stance. This way you are in a wider, more stable stance over your feet while the attacker's feet are not as well aligned. Thus if the attacker continues to pull, he is more likely to pull himself toward you. At the same time that you step, strike with your elbow against the attacker's floating ribs. The attacker's pull will only give your attack more power.
At the same time the opposite hand should reach up and grab the attacker's hair, pulling the head toward you (alternately this motion can be a palm heel strike to the nose, or a strike to the eyes - only to be used in a life threatening situation - followed by a heel strike to the chin). At the same time, the opposite fist (back fist) strikes the nose or chin. When done together with speed and power, this combination can be devastating.
You can finish the technique with an arm bar. The attacker's grip on your hair will be loosened, or the arm will be pulled back toward his or her head. In either instance lift both your arms (almost like the first move in the karate kata Pinan four) under the attacker's arm. Your left hand grabs the attacker's wrist and rotates the arm while your right forearm circles up and over the attacker's arm to rotate the elbow upward for the arm bar. Be sure to keep some bend in your right arm in order to keep downward pressure on the arm. (2)
If You Don't See It Coming
In this case you find yourself being pulled forward by the hair (see lead photo). Here again, don't fight the energy. Your attacker's energy is pulling you forward, so accentuate it.
Instead of resisting, take a quick step or two toward the attacker
into his motion of energy. This nullifies the pull and will actually
allow you to get close to the attacker. At this point you can move your
head up inside the pulling hand and follow with your body. The attacker
is suddenly vulnerable to a variety of attacks. Here I follow up with
a punch to the attacker's face.
If Someone Is Just Fooling Around
Then there is the case where a friend or relative is just fooling around or testing what you know. Here, you don't want to hurt them, but still want to make them to stop. One effective technique is to reach up and pinch the underside of the attacker's forearm -- being sure to catch just a little skin between your first finger tip and hard second knuckle of the thumb.
Content derived from http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=202
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Again, the first rule is not to pull back. This means that as the attacker pulls, you move inward.
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If you see the hair pull coming, instead of allowing your head to be jerked forward, you follow the attacker's energy and move yourself toward him or her. In this case, you also step and turn your body so that you are in a small horse stance. This way you are in a wider, more stable stance over your feet while the attacker's feet are not as well aligned. Thus if the attacker continues to pull, he is more likely to pull himself toward you. At the same time that you step, strike with your elbow against the attacker's floating ribs. The attacker's pull will only give your attack more power.
At the same time the opposite hand should reach up and grab the attacker's hair, pulling the head toward you (alternately this motion can be a palm heel strike to the nose, or a strike to the eyes - only to be used in a life threatening situation - followed by a heel strike to the chin). At the same time, the opposite fist (back fist) strikes the nose or chin. When done together with speed and power, this combination can be devastating.
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You can finish the technique with an arm bar. The attacker's grip on your hair will be loosened, or the arm will be pulled back toward his or her head. In either instance lift both your arms (almost like the first move in the karate kata Pinan four) under the attacker's arm. Your left hand grabs the attacker's wrist and rotates the arm while your right forearm circles up and over the attacker's arm to rotate the elbow upward for the arm bar. Be sure to keep some bend in your right arm in order to keep downward pressure on the arm. (2)
If You Don't See It Coming
In this case you find yourself being pulled forward by the hair (see lead photo). Here again, don't fight the energy. Your attacker's energy is pulling you forward, so accentuate it.
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If Someone Is Just Fooling Around
Then there is the case where a friend or relative is just fooling around or testing what you know. Here, you don't want to hurt them, but still want to make them to stop. One effective technique is to reach up and pinch the underside of the attacker's forearm -- being sure to catch just a little skin between your first finger tip and hard second knuckle of the thumb.
Content derived from http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=202
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