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A chop
This same technique. The soldier is not carrying his opponent, but has spun him and is about to drop him. Lift and drop on the knee. It is not so much a lift as wheeling the person off his feet.
A well-known Jujitsu technique, here is a variant of the armlock from an Army manual.
The same armlock is shown in a 1943 Army manual. Here it is used to counter a downward knife attack. Bent arm armlock
Attacker on right grabs or chokes his opponent. The defender on This 1946 Danish manual depicts the Fairbairn Technique for breaking a the left uses a left hand strike to break the choke. Simultaneously, choke. It is identical to the Medieval trick. He chops at the inside of the attacker's elbow and knees him. The next move would be to grip attacker's he grabs the attacker's wrist so as to be able to apply a hold.
Here is the same technique in a 1942 Canadian manual. This throw is a common trick of 20th Century hand-to-hand combat.
The defender falls back, kicking and then levering his opponent onto the ground.
The same technique from a 1953 Army manual. Bent armlock takedown.
Armlock takedown. Similar technique from 1943 Army manual. The armlock is called an arm bar.
Life and drop onto the knee. Here the defender lifts the enemy's knee with the right hand and pushes with the left. He wheels the opponent over Similar technique. The soldier lifted the knee, and pushed his rather than lifts him. opponent's face to wheel him. Again, he did not lift him, but wheeled him over.
Knee jerk and trip. The man on the left pulls his opponent's knees, forcing him to fall onto his back.
The same technique used in an old Swedish Army manual from the 1950s.
The defender on the right blocks an upward thrust with a cross-arm block. This manual was written in the early to mid-15th Century In this World War II German manual, the soldier defends with the same technique.
The same defense in the German manual. This manual was written about 500 years after the preceding Medieval text.
The same technique as it appeared in a Canadian manual, circa 1941 Two fighters in a Medieval version of a clinch. Note the block used by the man on the left