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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Rather than retract the strike, keep your hand pressed into your attacker’s face as you set up a power strike. If your attacker tries to move toward you, your hand in their face will prevent them from doing so; if they continue to move back, or adjust their position, you will be able to feel their movement and follow them.
Keep your hand glued to your assailant as you strike them, so that you can keep delivering multiple power strikes against them. If your hand is on the target area, remove it as you strike with the other hand.
The Krav Maga Yashir system works off the continuum: Disrupt, Damage, Destroy, and Disengage. This means that your first goal is to disrupt your attacker (something that can be accomplished by an easy-to-deliver “soft” strike to the eyes or throat) before going on to damage and destroy them with concussive/forceful blows (“hard” strikes).
Hammer-Fists
The hammer-fist is one of the most versatile striking tools that you have, as it can be delivered at multiple angles, and uses the bottom of the fist as the striking surface. In this fashion the relatively delicate bone structure of the hand is protected by the adipose tissue, meaning that it is unlikely that any damage to the hand will be sustained when using this type of strike—something you are always at risk of when punching with a closed fist.
To strike with a closed fist without risking injury to the hand, it is wise to condition your hands. If you always wear wraps and/or gloves when you train, you may develop bad habits with your striking, such as not closing your fist fully on impact, etc. These bad habits could see you injuring your hands in a real-life confrontation; for example, if your assailant should duck their head, you may end up striking the skull rather than the face, and if your hand/fist is not properly conditioned for this type of potential impact, it is likely that you’ll damage it, as there would have been no consequence for this in a glove.
With the hammer-fist strike, you are making impact with the bottom of the fist. The fist is still tightened on impact, but instead of striking with the knuckles (which can also bruise quite easily), you are striking with the tightened soft tissue at the base of the fist, which doesn’t damage easily; this protects the relatively fragile bones of the hand.
Downward/Forward Hammer-Fist
This strike derives its power from the dropping of the hand, assisted by the body, onto whatever target has been selected. It can be delivered straight down, against a target such as the back of your assailant’s neck (if they are bent over), or it can be angled straight into an attacker’s face if they are standing/facing you.
In real-life situations there is no time to get into a “fighting stance.” If you try to do so, you will have both wasted time and informed your aggressor of your intentions. However, to practice hammer-fists, and understand how they work, a fighting stance is a good position to start from. In reality, your “fighting stance” is one that adheres to certain principles: weight distributed 50/50 between the feet, head over shoulders, shoulders over hips, feet on opposite corners of a rectangle, etc.
Turn the heel of your front foot outward (away from the centerline of your body), so that your body turns. At the same time, pull the elbow of your rear hand directly upward. The reason for the turning motion is that when you go to make your strike, you can “unwind” your body, to deliver more power into the strike.
Once your elbow has reached its maximum height, start to extend your arm. As you reach upward with your hand, raise your weight off your front foot, transferring it to the rear—your front leg should hold about 30 percent of your weight; your rear, 70 percent. This will allow you to move weight forward as you deploy your hammer-fist, adding power to the strike.
Once your arm is fully extended, your weight transferred, and your body fully bladed, you will be ready to make the strike. Although it may seem that this process takes a long time, when all the movements are done simultaneously, it will be extremely fast.
Start to unwind your body, and shift your weight forward (your right hip should be pushing forward into the strike), as you bring your fist down. You should have the feeling of the body pushing your hand forward and down.
As you deliver the strike, start to bend the knees and sink your weight in order to add more power to your strike.
Rather than “bouncing” the strike off the target, drive through it, and prepare to raise the elbow again, in a cyclical fashion, to deliver another strike. Another advantage hammer-fist strikes have over straight punches is that it is much easier to move forward throwing multiple hammer-fist strikes than it is to move forward throwing full-force straight punches.
This is an extremely powerful strike, which sees your extended arm, held overhead, crash downward (and sometimes forward) into the intended target (nose, back of head/neck, clavicle, etc.). The same strike can be made while holding a pen, flashlight, etc., so that all the force of the strike is concentrated through a harder and much more focused striking surface.
If you can find a solid object, such as a pen, a flashlight, a mobile phone, etc., you can use this to focus the power of your hammer-fist strike. Simply hold the object in your hand—with your thumb over the top to prevent it slipping when it makes impact—and deliver a hammer-fist strike against your assailant. If you aim for the chest, make sure you rip/scrape the object down the body after it has landed, in order to cause maximum trauma.
It may seem that the extension of the arm overhead is a little contrived, even theatrical, and more befitting of a martial-arts technique than one that should be used in a real-life situation. After all, do you really have time to extend the arm that high when dealing with an aggressor who is coming at you with full force and full speed? The real answer is no; however, in training we should enlarge and exaggerate our movements, making them as big as possible, for one simple reason: under stress and adrenaline, our movements shrink and become contracted. If we try to train our techniques as we think we would execute them in reality, it is likely that when we are called upon to use them in a real-life confrontation where we are adrenalized/stressed, they will be too small, and will not contain enough power to be effective.
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