Krav Maga Tactical Survival. Gershon Ben Keren
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Название: Krav Maga Tactical Survival
Автор: Gershon Ben Keren
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Спорт, фитнес
isbn: 9781462919161
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As you throw your hook punch, your attacker may pull their head back to avoid it.
If you have already committed to the strike, your hook punch will miss. So long as you don’t swing the punch wildly, your attacker won’t have the opportunity to attack your back.
Bring your arm back across your body in order to deliver a hammer-fist or forearm strike.
Transferring your weight forward and taking a step forward will move you toward your attacker. As you do this, unwind your arm from around you to deliver either a forearm strike or a hammer-fist strike, depending on the range.
Even if your attacker has their hands held up to guard their head, the power generated by your body unwinding and moving forward is likely to crash straight through them, hitting the target regardless.
Continue to drive your strike into your attacker as if you are trying to use it to cut off their head.
This should see them concussed, with their balance severely compromised. From here, you can either disengage or continue to deliver strikes until your attacker is no longer able to continue fighting, emotionally and/or physically.
It may be that you connect with the hook, and this moves the person’s head back, which sets up the hammer-fist strike. If you strike in this rhythm, with both strikes occurring in quick succession, you may knock your assailant out, as the brain will receive a “double shake,” being quickly moved one way and then the other. It is worth pointing out that knocking your assailant out is something that may happen in the course of striking, rather than something that you should aim to do. If you spend your time chasing/looking for an opening that will allow you the chance to knock your aggressor out, you will be wasting time that could have been spent delivering multiple strikes, which might have totally overwhelmed them and caused them to emotionally crumble, removing them from the fight much earlier. During your blitzing assault on your assailant, you may “get lucky” and physically knock them out, but don’t waste your time looking for that one opportunity. You should lay down your strikes like a machine gunner, not a sniper.
Defending Against Punches with a Punch
One of the foundational principles of Krav Maga is that attack should follow defense at the earliest opportunity. One way to do this is to combine an attack with a defensive movement, such as using the same punch to both attack your assailant and at the same time defend against their punch. This particular technique works well against a circular punch when you are already in the fight. If you are “sucker punched” and taken by surprise, your natural reflexes will take over and you will perform a 360 defense; i.e., you will end up flinching, and bring your arm up to block.
You should only ever attempt to defend a punch with a punch when you are sure that your attacker doesn’t have a knife, broken bottle, or other such implement in their hand. The trick to being successful with this is to ignore the punch that is being thrown by your aggressor, as the movement will draw both your attention and your strike away from its intended target and toward your assailant’s attack. Instead, all of your focus should be on executing your own punch, and letting the movement of your arm perform a blocking action.
As your assailant begins to throw a circular punch toward you, start to raise your elbow upward while at the same time driving your fist forward toward your attacker’s face.
Keep raising the elbow up as you deliver the punch forward. Your fist will be corkscrewing round so that thumb is pointing toward the ground, rather than up.
Continue this rotation of the fist so that the elbow is lifted high. This means that your attacker’s strike will be blocked by your punching arm.
Continue to extend your arm and drive your fist into and through your attacker’s face. You can then follow up on this, using your left arm to deliver further strikes.
Be aware that this is not a “power” punch as such, because you will be connecting with the smaller, weaker knuckles of the hand—you should instead think of it as a “jabbing” punch that interrupts your attacker’s assault and rhythm, and allows you the opportunity to set up further strikes of your own.
Other Attacking Tools
Biting
A real-life fight is a dirty thing, and as such, nothing can ever be ruled out. If you are fighting for survival—and this is the only reason you should be fighting—everything and anything should be used. This includes biting. Although we don’t possess the jaw and bite strength of a Rottweiler or a pit bull, biting can be an effective tool for us to use. It is worth pointing out that clothing can often render biting ineffectual, so it should never be seen as a silver bullet, though it definitely does have its time and place.
Biting works very well for small children who are being abducted or pulled away by an adult assailant. A child should try to grab their attacker’s arm with both hands to steady themselves, and then bite into it. As soon as they feel the grip loosen, they should move to get away/disengage. Understand that although this type of assault—a stranger trying to kidnap a child, for whatever purposes—is what we fear most, it is not the most likely way for an adult to get a child to go with them. Children need to be educated in identifying the grooming process that adult predators use, as well as learning physical self-defense techniques.
Biting is an effective tool for two basic reasons: firstly, a person who is bitten instinctively pulls away from the bite, making it a great way to create space to move/escape when held in a lock or control. Secondly, it sends a clear message to your attacker as to where your head space is, and what you are prepared to do in order to survive the fight—being bitten is something an attacker probably didn’t expect when they decided to assault you.
If you are dealing with a multiple-assailant situation in which you want to send a clear message to the group—one that says they are not going to have an easy time dealing with you—biting the primary aggressor, and moving them so that they are between you and the others, can be an effective strategy. If those less-committed members of the group witness the most aggressive and determined member bleeding and in extreme pain, they will be less likely to want to involve themselves in the fight.