Achilles Lock

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Yasuhiro Namekawa  defeating Carlos Toyota  via Achilles Lock.
Yasuhiro Namekawa defeating Carlos Toyota via Achilles Lock.

An Achilles Lock (also called an achilles hold or achilles squeeze) is a compression lock that involves pressing the achilles tendon into the back of the ankle or lower leg. It is typically performed by wedging a forearm, especially a bony part of it, into the achilles tendon, while leveraging the foot and the leg over the forearm serving as a fulcrum. This causes severe pressure on the achilles tendon, and often also results in an ankle lock, since the ankle is being used as a point of leverage. Similarly, some ankle locks also cause a compression lock on the achilles tendon, and hence the term "achilles lock" is often also used to describe such ankle locks.


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