The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1900, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. <.‘AR|> THAT 1 (BREAKS BONES KNEE PRESSURE oM BACK . FOREARM ~EVER OMN NECK SURE DEATH! To BreEAK THE ARM OF A CLINCHER. . Japanese [Tethod of Defense TRID AND BAck FALL.. R. J. J. O'BRIEN teaches the j gg sg breaking of arms and legs. It s an accomplishment that any one may acquire Not that we =ll need to acquire it Some of us are well content to leave all the arms and legs we know in unbroken peace instead of in broken pleces. But <6 never knows what may happen. For instance, are a police- man. U may u og build and yet have more le in settling some hard case t a mite of a Jap uld— a Jap who ws the tricks that Mr. O'Brien learn: vhile he was police In- spector in the land of the Jap. Or sup- pose you are the other person in the policeman occurrenc will be very con- venlent for you to krow how to dispose of the dfficer. " Mr. O'Brien's whole method of self- defenss Is a mechanical tion. He places his opponent in a his strength is vsed agal where only his weak muscles are left tion where self and free for aggressive ac “The whole system that of kit- tens,” he says. y and wcuffle and wrest e what I mean.” He e Japanese who has come to assist him, have been showing f bly what he means. ‘The grip is convenjent to use In case a man should be Impolite enough to raise TRIP ANC SIBE THROW. his flst too near your face. There {8 mo need of turning the other cheek to be rmitten. It s .much better to grasp his wriat, turn his arm over, outward, wo that the weak outside musclea are brought up- ward and the strong muacles cennot be brought into play. Quickness {s indispensable In overy move. In this point the kitten simile is perfect. You may watch M\ O’Brien make a spring upon his opponent and you can no more tell how it is done than when a cat springs, but you see the opponent belng resuscitated a few minutes later. He uses one hand in many of his moves to turn aside the face of the opponent. Any man is half helpless with his neck bent back and his face turned so that he cannot see his adversary’s motions. There are many tricks that have to do with the leg. But beneath all, the mechanical law of the arm—the law of the lever—is the b operation. The dictionary says: “A lever is a me- chanical device consisting of a straight bar turning freely on a fixed point and serving to impart pressure or motion from a source of power to a resistance.” This is the principle of the arm's action, and the Japanese scheme is to turn aside this “pressure or motlon,” to make the “power” either inactive or active against its owner. BlLow oy B0TH EARS ... The latter is Ulustrated In slipping the arm stralght through the opponent's, bringing !t upward so that the hand can be placed on the back of his neck. His instinctive rosistance i3 made by pushing his own arm forward for freedom, and this brings your hand-the mcte heavily agalnst his neck, where it is not pleasant Footpads are sald to have a little habdit upon you from behind, and seiz- ing you in an embrace that pins yows arms to your sides. Mr. O'Brien's remedy for this is to kneel quickly, slipping through the footpad's arm. Then he is able to reach up and selze the footpad's arm at the shoulder, twisting him forward and over his head. Box a man on one ear and he retreats from the blow. Eox him on both at once d he is warranted not to trouble you f r. There are odd little points about the head and throat where the prod of one finger may settle an affair, “It's just like this,” concludes Mr. O'Brien. “By any of these tricks a man, | woman or child can break a man's arm or leg or perhaps injure him Internally. 1 was laid up the t of three months while I was learning. And when your opponent knows that you can break a Hmb for him—well. he usually comes ta. '\ time first.” READY For ABAD FALL .. MUST GOALONG OR HAVE HIS --Broken, Bongs or Death! BRocEN ARM AND BAD DRo®.