120 - Tutorial -The six ways that fingers break and other delights...
"You won't be teaching piano again for a while..."
It’s probably too much to ask that you will look as suave as Christopher Plummer from “Return of the Pink Panther” while doing this but you can’t have it all.
Cranking the digits can be a low force way of dissuading an aggressor through pain though it is not a guarantee - depending on factors like their ability to resist pain or counter the move.
In more serious situations, a broken bone and/or ripped tendons/ligaments will cause loss of function which WILL effect their ability to continue using that hand to grab and possibly strike.
So may end a fight or may just diminish them.
As mentioned in this week’s workshop here are the six ways that the fingers can be cranked and broken along with some of related info: