[Technical Grappling] Teach me using examples

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

It is explicitly allowed by the rules: The thing you do here to defend while you're grappling or being attacked by a grapple is a Hands-Free Parry (TG, p. 22-23). Adapt that or use it straight-up. "Parrying by yanking on the shield" or whatever is exactly the sort of below-resolution move that Hands-Free parries are designed to emulate.

On p. 22, it is explicit that you can only use unarmed combat skils for such Parries:

"If an opponent attacks you with a grappling
move (not a strike) against which you would be permitted
a parry, you may parry using any unarmed combat skill and
specify that this defense is a “technical parry” or a “counter”:
an attempt to thwart the attack by shifting position rather than
interposing hands."

I agree that this should be possible, but in that case, the italicised unarmed needs to be replaced with something along the lines of 'unarmed combat skill or applicable weapon skill when grappling with it'.

Unless you mean that when you have achieved an Armed Grapple or Hook with a weapon, you can use this rule to Parry, but not with the weapon skill, Hook or Armed Grapple; but only if you also know an unarmed skill. That actually seems reasonable to me and is a good reason for the inclusion of Wrestling in all those low-tech warrior builds. :)