Arm Capture drill: using gan to capture rhythm and gum/tok to capture arm

-- by Derrick Ho

Hero		Image		Villain
left	right		left	right
wu	high gan inside		wu	punch center
punch	low gan to get outside		pause	pause
high gan inside	wu		punch center	wu
low gan to get outside	waits		pause	pause
tok elbow	inside gum wrist		wu	punch
high gan inside	wu		punch center	wu
low gan to get outside	punch		pause	pause
wu	high gan inside		wu	punch center
waits	low gan to get outside		pause	pause
inside gum wrist	tok elbow		punch	wu

The focus of the technique is the “inside gum wrist/tok elbow” arm capture.  However, it is rather difficult to get to this capture directly.  In the above drill the use of inner gan to outer gan is used.  The gan is used as a method of capturing the opponent's rhythm.  When you know the opponent’s rhythm, it makes the arm capture easier to obtain.  If the opponent telegraphs really obviously then you can probably skip to the arm capture.