Originally Posted by
Mr Punch
Anyway, my personal op is that trapping is almost accidental: a product of having good forward elbow position and the right energy when your strike hits an obstacle, and using that to flow round/blast through/pin down/all three that obstacle.
It should never be looked for.
I don't, OTOH, see any problem with choosing to beat the **** out of someone's arms if head-hunting/body shots are proving difficult however. I don't see that as chasing arms, just an extension of 'nearest (viable) target, nearest weapon'. Good strikes to the arms can use chum/unbalancing/uprooting etc etc and still disrupt/control the centre.