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mp072004 -> RE: Topping someone bigger than you. (9/4/2006 7:30:29 AM)
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Well, naturally you can top someone bigger than you if he or she lets you put the cuffs on. This can be an exertion of dominance, you know--coercion and persuasion are just as good as wrestling someone to the ground.
However, if you want to physically subdue a person bigger than you, you may be able to do it. You may want to take some martial arts classes; jujitsu, aikido, and kempo are useful for this, I'm told--kickboxing and its variants aren't so good. For your purposes, I would not recommend a self-defense class for women, because self-defense classes tend to emphasize lethal force and techniques to allow you to get away. You don't want to learn to gouge an eye out, especially if you're monogamous, because you can only use that trick twice. Of course, takedowns do get easier then.
I attended a good demo this weekend about joint locks and pressure points in BDSM. You need some amount of strength or weight to do a joint lock right, but you can definitely be smaller than the bottom. In general, you simply twist a joint to its limit (rolling the wrist, elbow, and shoulder forward, for example) and then lean into it--not much strength necessary, as you can use your body weight instead of muscular strength. I can't explain the techniques I saw adequately in a message, though you may be able to find webpages on joint locks.
Strikes (punching, kicking, knees and elbows) are useful to start a takedown, and if you do it hard enough, sometimes the bottom isn't keen on looking for more. There are vulnerable spots, like the nerves on the sides of the thighs (where quad meets hamstring) that you can go for. If you hit them hard enough, some people drop to the ground and are incapacitated for a few seconds--long enough to land a better strike to another place that will incapacitate them for a minute and allow you to apply bondage more easily.
There are little things you can do that give you an advantage when fighting with a man, because they don't tend to think of them--jamming your fingernail into his cuticle, bending a finger backward or bending the little finger to the side, grabbing flesh (the skin below the armpits is good for this) and twisting it, stomping on his instep. The key is a lot of quick pain, and then you hit him like above. Distraction tactics, essentially.
What about weapons? If you have a baton and the other person doesn't, you have an advantage. Some weapons may do better as threats. Putting a knife at someone's throat (and, naturally, protecting yourself against counterstrikes and attempts to get the thing) tends to make them cooperative, even if they outweigh you.
Please remember, too, that your strength is not fixed. I had been doing a lot of strength training and did a takedown with someone who I hadn't done resistance in a while, and he remarked on how I had gotten surprisingly harder to fight with. You can bet that got me back into the gym!
In general, you might be able to do a takedown with just the simple techniques I listed, especially if the bottom isn't fighting to his full ability. However, if you're serious about takedowns, lift weights and learn to fight systematically. An athletic, small person trained in a fighting sport can win against a less-fit, big, untrained person.
Monica
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