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The Anatomy of Selected Joint Locks Hien N. Nguyen Introduction My initial foray into martial arts came when my dad took me to an aikido dojo in the Little Saigon district of Westminster. We arrived in time to watch the weekend youth class warming up. I watched as the instructor led the excitable students through trips of rolls and falls across the mat. I had never seen any of these techniques performed before, and watched in fascination as other kids my age rolled nimbly and effortlessly, forwards, backwards, or even after flying through the air. Being the shortest and smallest seventh grader in my class, I was a little intimidated when my dad first suggested I take up martial arts. After seeing kids having fun with nothing reminiscent of the Cobra Kai school in The Karate Kid, though, I said I might like to try it out. As we stayed to watch the remainder of class and warm-ups ended, the students all knelt in a line along one length of the mat. The head instructor, Sensei Dang Thong Phong came out, called upon the senior black belt, and proceeded to demonstrate aikido techniques, three different ones for varying skill levels of the class. Each time, as the black belt reached to grab his wrist, Sensei Phong would turn like a bullfighter, leading his attacker around in a flurry of 253 The Anatomy of Selected Joint Locks off-balanced steps before throwing or directing the black belt to the ground with manipulations of his hand or arm. Even with my untrained eye, it was evident that these techniques were