Jujutsu, Chin-na, and Aikido all have excellent finger locks. Which are the most effective?
- What are most reliable finger locks?
Also interested in pinky locks specifically b/c that's the weakest finger.
Note that finger locking in martial arts is very ancient:
Beside Sostratus is a statue of Leontiscus, a man wrestler, a native of Sicily from Messene on the Strait. He was crowned, they say, by the Amphictyons and twice by the Eleans, and his mode of wrestling was similar to the pancratium of Sostratus the Sicyonian. For they say that Leontiscus did not know how to throw his opponents, but won by bending their fingers.
Source: Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.4.3