Grandmaster Wong applying the formidable Spiral-Hand Grip on Adam

Dislocating wrist is an effective chin-na method. A few major ways of dislocating wrist, using patterns like “Bending Willow in Wind”, “Jade Girl Pluck Flower” and “Hiding Tiger’s Tail”, are shown in the video series below.

The famous “chin see sau” (“chan si shou” in Mandarin) is also shown. Literally “chin see sau” means “cocoon hand”, but a more meaningful figurative translation is “spiral-hand grip”, which is very effective in dislocating an opponent’s wrist and is not easy to counter.

There are, of course, counters to “chin see sau” and other chin-na techniques. The fundamental principle in the counters is to “follow the opponent’s momentum”.