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Author of " Wrestling" and " Jiu-jitsu," Official Referee, Olympic Games, 1908 an aggressor to a condition of helplessness. Pressing the

Fig. 7. The first movement of a trick which will reduce attacker's hand to the chest and securing it there
By few other tricks is the utter helplessness of the aggressor shown better than in these two illustrations.
The aggressor has laid one hand on the defender's chest, either to push her backward or to get a grip of the clothes (Fig. 7). This is an opportunity of which the latter takes full advantage. With lightning speed she lays her hands, palms inward, upon the attacking hand, thus pressing that hand close to her own chest. Without any hesitation, she then steps backward with the right foot, going down on the right knee, pressing strongly upon the hand she has covered, and bending forward so that by the pressure of the chest the fingers of the captured hand are forced backward. That same pressure brings the aggressor down on her face, as shown in Fig. 8. the ground

Fig. 8. The final movement of the trick. The assailant brought to
 
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