Rick's Handy-dandy
Anti-Vaughn Hair-Grab Technique.
( Read more... )Note: You'll see several other hair grab techniques, like on youtube. The great majority of these may be helpful, but often involve a single move that damn well better work, or your head is at their knee. Not a good position for you if that move (wrist lock, punch, whatever) doesn't work. This is a nice technique because it establishes your base, so if you can get a strike in and they let you go, you're not going to fall on your face or their knee/foot.
Hair grabs from the rear are different, and involve turning under their arm so you can swing your arm into their groin. Those are uglier since someone grabbing you from behind is also uglier.