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Originally Posted by WingedKagouti
A Finger Lock can be extremely painful if applied correctly and it only takes one hand to apply/maintain, leaving your other arm free. You need much more control and/or strength to apply the same amount of pain with an Arm Lock, and even more if you attempt to do it one handed.
You generally don't use a Finger Lock to damage, you use it to control.
That's at least my experience from back when I was practicing Jujutsu several years ago.
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Quite. An eight-year-old with good knowledge of finger locks could, with proper technique, take a grown man to the ground. In fact, I've both seen it done and taught it.