Krav Maga Tactical Survival. Gershon Ben Keren

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СКАЧАТЬ accounts for 5 percent of the final strike. The most important part of any punch is the way the body works as a unit to create power. If you are looking to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of your punching, it would be better to concentrate on this, rather than getting caught up in the nuances around the orientation of the fist.

      At the end of the day, the orientation of the fist should, in most cases, be affected by your level of proficiency in throwing the strike. If you believe you have the control and range to ensure that you can connect with the larger knuckles, rotating the fist and engaging the shoulder muscles will give your strike more power. Another consideration is whether or not you are carrying a weapon. If your primary tool of self-defense is a firearm, baton, pepper spray, etc., the risk of breaking a knuckle probably isn’t worth it. If you break a bone in your hand during this process so that you are unable to draw/use these tools, then the strike will have failed to achieve its purpose in creating the time, space and distance to allow you to get to them.

      If your assailant is effectively using a high guard to protect their head (possibly even against your hook punches), you may want to get them to drop their hands so that this target is exposed. Do not be fooled into thinking that because someone is acting in a defensive manner they are beaten/finished, or that you have the advantage. It may be that they are simply waiting for an opportunity to pull out a weapon and change the odds of the fight.

      One way to get your assailant to lower their guard and drop their hands is to start attacking the body. Be aware that it is possible to condition the body to take a high degree of pain, so you may need to strike the same target several times in order to have an effect. If you can land your strikes to the kidneys, you will elicit a flinch response that makes your aggressor crunch up in such a way that the arms will drop down to protect the body. It can be difficult to strike so accurately in a dynamic context, though, and heavy clothing, such as a coat, can mitigate some of the effects of your strikes. However, if you repeatedly strike in roughly the same place, putting the full weight of your body into the strike, your assailant will be forced to start defending this area. As soon as the assailant’s hands drop and you recoil your strike, you should turn your attention to the head.

      If your attacker is protecting their head well, and has a high and tight guard, it may be difficult to get an elbow—or even a hook punch—in.

      One way that you may be able to get your assailant to drop their guard and open themselves up is to throw low punches/hooks at their body. To try to protect from these, they will need to lower their hands, which will make their head available as a target.

      Although they have blocked your low hook, their head is now exposed.

      Pull your punch back by recoiling your hip, so that you are now in a position to deliver a hook (or slicing elbow strike) to your assailant’s head.

      Push your hip forward, raise the elbow and the heel, and make a hook strike to the head.

      With your attacker’s guard opened up and their head vulnerable, you can start to deliver further strikes to this target.

      Although body shots are generally not the most effective type of strike (unless you are extremely accurate and able to target specific areas such as the liver) in a short conflict (lasting less than 10 seconds), they are useful for setting up other strikes and diverting an assailant’s attention away from other areas. In longer-lasting incidents, body shots will end up tiring and exhausting an unconditioned assailant, and can be extremely effective at slowing them down. This is especially true if the person you are assaulting does not know how to control their breathing when they are punched.

      Even if a person is guarding their face or head, making it difficult to throw elbow strikes at it, you don’t necessarily have to use hook punches to get around their guard. A very simple solution is to use one hand to hook around and clear their blocking arms so that you are able to strike them.

      Another simple way to open a person’s guard up…

      …is to grab the wrist of one of the arms (it is often easier to grab their left arm with your left hand, and vice versa) and pull the arm down to expose the head.

      This will allow you to throw elbow strikes and/or similar attacks toward your assailant’s face.

      If there is space between your assailant’s arms, you could also come through the middle of their guard with a slicing uppercut elbow.

      Assume your de-escalation/interview stance.

      Step/slide forward with your left foot, turning your hand in, and start to raise your elbow. Your rear hand should start to pull back in order to come back and guard your head.

      Keep raising the elbow in a circular fashion toward the target.

      Once it hits, continue to drive it upward, while at the same time pulling your hand back behind your head.

      In this and the next photograph, you can see how the body turns inward to add power to the strike.

      If you were square-on to your aggressor, your elbow will have now come directly to your assailant’s center line; i.e., directly between their guard.

      By continuing the upward arc of the elbow after it has connected, you will cause the head to be driven backward, and the elbow will be scraped upward into your assailant’s face.

      Combining Hook Punches with Hammer-Fist Strikes

      The outward hammer-fist can also be thrown as a second strike after a hook punch or slicing elbow—it works especially well if either of these short-range strikes have missed—either because your attacker pulled their head back, or because you misjudged the range and distance (something which can easily happen in a dynamic situation).

      If your assailant moves their head back to avoid one of these strikes, immediately СКАЧАТЬ