3 Stances

Main Steps Involved:

• Passive: Standing normally with hands down feet about shoulder width apart

• Semi passive: Same as passive but bring hand up and in front. Keep hands open and place elbows on the rib area

• Outlet stance (fight stance): Same as the semi-passive but a step forward. Step forward in a normal comfortable stepping range keeping legs shoulder-width apart (like the other stances) and torso straight. Use the ball of the foot for the rearfoot, and the front foot should be planted flat.

Moving In A Fight Stance 

• Step forward into fight stance by taking a normal step forward and keeping feet comfortably apart, about shoulder width

• Keep front foot flat and the rear foot on the ball of the foot

• Whatever direction you want to move, the closest foot to that direction of travel leads first, and the opposite foot should follow
  E.g., left- left foot moves left then right foot follows and moves left ensuring to step at a comfortable distance

Moving And Scanning

• After defending an attack, you must move and scan to look for other attackers

• You must make space and get off the straight line of the attacker, exiting to the side and remaining in your fight stance.

• Look left to right until you feel safe.

• Once you can see the attacker is no longer a threat and feel safe, leave the area.

Variation: Once you have completed step 3, you can move back in and give further attacks if you feel the attacker is still a threat, but only if no weapon such as a knife is present.

Getting Off The Line When Exiting 

• After every defense you must get off the line of the attacker whether you are moving and scanning or fleeing

• Flee at an angle to avoid being chased in a straight line as it is harder to attack someone running on an angle

• Look back while fleeing to make sure you are not being chased

Deliver A Punch And Palm

• Extend arm in a straight line from elbow to fist

• Simultaneously Pivot foot on the punching arm side, pivoting inwards

• Extend arm and strike in a whip like motion, recoiling straight away back to the hands up position (passive, semi passive or fighting)

• Keep hand open and close on impact

• Move away or flee immediately

Uppercut

Hook Punch

• Without lowering arm, drive hand across our face connecting to attackers face with a 90-degree bend in our arm

• Keep hand open and close on impact

• Simultaneously Pivot foot on the punching arm side, pivoting inwards

• Recoil immediately

Downward Vertical Hammer

Main Steps Involved:

• Raise arm just above forehead with a 90-degree bend and an open hand

• Bring hand downwards towards attackers face keeping a slight bend in arm

• Simultaneously Pivot foot on the punching arm side, pivoting inwards

• Strike in a whip like motion, recoiling straight away back to the hands up position (passive, semi passive or fighting)

• Keep hand open and close on impact

Sideways Horizontal Hammer

Main Steps Involved:

• Turn your head to look at attacker and simultaneously bring hands up in a semi passive position

• Begin turning towards attacker by pivoting with the opposite foot to the hand your striking with

• Close your fist on impact, driving your fist through the attacker’s head

• Recoil immediately

• Move and scan or flee

Front Horizontal Elbow

Headbutt

Main Steps Involved:

• Tuck your chin down to your chest area and bring your hands up

• Drive the front corner point of your head towards the target by driving your entire torso forward with your legs while simultaneously bending at your hips for further range and impact

How To Knee

Main Steps Involved (single):

• Raise knee and drive up into attackers groin

• Lean back slightly

• Push hip forwards

• Move away or flee immediately

Main Steps Involved (multiple):

• Grab the attacker’s trapezius muscle with one hand and the attackers tricep with your opposite hand

• Simultaneously pull the attacker towards your knee and deliver a knee to the groin, ensuring your foot pushes off the ground, hips are pushed forward, and leaning back slightly.

• Bring your foot back to the ground and repeat.

• Deliver further attacks, move away or flee immediately

Regular Front Kick

Main Steps Involved:

• Raise knee and extend leg forward towards attacker’s groin or knee

• Lean back slightly and extend hip forward

• After contact recoil leg

• Move away or flee immediately

Defensive Front Kick

• Raise knee and extend leg forward towards attacker’s chest area

• Lean back slightly and extend hip forward

• After contact recoil leg

• Move away or flee immediately

Stepping Roundhouse Kick To Groin Or Stomach

• Step out and forward on a 45-degree angle keeping your torso low

• Strike attackers groin with the ball of your foot

• Recoil immediately

• Move and scan or exit getting of the line

Live Side Vs. Dead Side

• Live side: The live side is the whole area between the insides of your forearm, such as the face, stomach, groin, inside of arms and legs, etc.

• Dead side: The dead side is the area outside of your forearms, such as the side and back of the head, back, outside of legs and arms, etc.

Depending on which hand we react with and use to defend, we may protect on the live or dead side.

We adjust our attack slightly depending on which side we end up on after defending.

You cannot choose what side you want to defend. It depends on our reaction and what hand or leg we use to protect with and the hand or leg the attacker used.

Using Stick Objects For Self Defense

• Hold the stick type object in your leading hand while in a fight stance

• Keep your opposite hand up

• Swing the stick in different directions continuously while advancing towards the attacker

• Be aggressive and scream at the attacker

• Once safe exit of the line

Defend Against Single Overhead Swing Stick Ending On Live Side

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• As you are bursting forward punch the attackers face once with your opposite hand

• Immediately grab the attackers neck/shoulder muscle with your punching hand and their tricep with your arm that was defending

• Deliver multiple knees

• Push attacker away and move and scan or exit off the line

Defend Against Single Overhead Swing Stick With Disarm On Live Side

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up, and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• As you are bursting forward punch the attackers face once with your opposite hand

• Immediately grab the attackers neck/shoulder muscle with your punching hand and their tricep with your arm that was defending

• Deliver multiple knees

• Slide your arm down from the attackers tricep and grab their wrist

• Step out 90 degrees keeping the attacker’s wrist against your hip

• Grab the furthest end of the stick object and pull it upwards

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Single Overhead Swing Stick Ending On Dead Side

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up, and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• After bursting forward grab the attacker’s wrist with your opposite hand

• Begin delivering multiple fist/palm attacks to the attackers face with your now free hand

• Push attacker away, move and scan or exit getting off the line

Defend Against Single Overhead Swing Stick Ending On Dead Side With Disarm

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up, and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• After bursting forward grab the attacker’s wrist with your opposite hand

• Begin delivering multiple fist/palm attacks to the attackers face with your now free hand

• After striking the attackers face use the same hand and grab the top section of the stick object and break the weapon out of their hand using a snapping motion

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Two Handed Overhead Swing

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up, and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• After bursting forward grab the attacker’s wrist with your opposite hand

• Begin delivering multiple fist/palm attacks to the attackers face with your now free hand

• Push attacker away, move and scan or exit getting off the line

Defend Against Two Handed Overhead Swing With Disarm

• As the attacker raises the stick object bring your hands up, and bend forward slightly to get off the line of the stick strike

• Burst forward directly towards the attacker by stepping while simultaneously thrusting the defending arm forward, ensuring your bicep is against your ear and your arm is straight

• After bursting forward grab the attacker’s wrist with your opposite hand

• Begin delivering multiple fist attacks to the attackers face with your now free hand

• After striking the attackers face use the same hand and grab the top section of the stick object and break the weapon out of their hand using a snapping motion

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Baseball Bat Swing

• Burst forward by pushing off your rear leg and turning your body 90 degrees so that your shoulder is leading and your arm is straight and against your body

• Keep your opposite hand in front of your face and try to make strong contact against the attacker

• Simultaneously wrap your straight arm around the attacker’s arms and elbow their head with your opposite arm, remembering to pivot to give maximum impact

• Deliver multiple elbows, headbutts and knees

• With your striking arm, grab the part of the stick object that is closest to the attacker’s grip and pull the stick in a horizontal motion, driving the weapon through the attacker’s head

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Diagonal Whiplash Attack

• Step forward 90 degrees and put your forearms up in front of you and squat slightly to absorb the impact of the trike

• After impact, grab down with one hand ending up hooked on the attacker’s arm and the other hooked on the weapon

• Immediately give a single knee with your closest font leg

• Simultaneously step back and forward 45 degrees from the attacker and turn your hand that is hooked on the attacker’s arm into a firm grip on their wrist and completely straighten the same arm

• Deliver multiple fist/palm attacks to the attacker’s face

• With your opposite now free arm, grab the part of the stick object that is closest to the attacker’s grip and disarm the weapon by using a snapping motion

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Diagonal Whiplash Attack With Disarm

• Step forward 90 degrees and put your forearms up in front of you and squat slightly to absorb the impact of the trike

• After impact, grab down with one hand ending up hooked on the attacker’s arm and the other hooked on the weapon

• Immediately give a single knee with your closest font leg

• Simultaneously step back and forward 45 degrees from the attacker and turn your hand that is hooked on the attacker’s arm into a firm grip on their wrist and completely straighten the same arm

• Deliver multiple fist/palm attacks to the attacker’s face

• With your opposite now free arm, grab the part of the stick object that is closest to the attacker’s grip and disarm the weapon by using a snapping motion

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Straight Stab With A Stick (Dead Side)

• Pivot body 90 degrees and redirect weapon by using your palm to strike weapon away

• Simultaneously Bring your opposite hand up on your opposite shoulder

• After redirecting weapon grab the attackers weapon or hand (depending on the attacker’s recoil and your reaction time)) with your hand that is on your shoulder by sliding it down your defending arm in a switching type motion

• Step out and forward 45 degrees and deliver a roundhouse to the attacker’s groin

• Place the leg that you delivered a roundhouse with parallel next to the attacker’s foot and step behind the attacker with your opposite leg

• Deliver multiple strikes to the back of the attacker’s head

• Reach over with the hand that you struck with and place your elbow against the attacker’s torso and grab the weapon

• Ensure that your opposite hand is on the weapon or move it off the attacker’s forearm onto the weapon

• Disarm weapon by pulling it forward and up on a 45-degree angle

• Drive weapon horizontally back through the attacker’s head by pivoting on the spot

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Straight Stab With A Stick (Live Side)

• Pivot body 90 degrees and redirect weapon by using your palm to strike weapon away

• Simultaneously bring your opposite hand up on your opposite shoulder

• Burst in forward towards attacker by leading with your forearms in front of you and squatting slightly, pinning the weapon against the attacker

• Hook down onto the weapon and immediately raise it back up by griping it as you would a stick

• Disarm weapon by pulling it forward and up on a 45-degree angle

• Drive weapon horizontally back through the attacker’s head by pivoting on the spot

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against High Stab

• Pivot body 90 degrees and redirect weapon by using your forearm to strike weapon away

• Simultaneously Bring your opposite hand up on your opposite shoulder

• After redirecting weapon grab the attackers forearm with your hand that is on your shoulder by sliding it down your defending arm in a switching type motion

• Step out and forward 45 degrees and deliver a roundhouse to the attacker’s groin

• Place the leg that you delivered a roundhouse with parallel next to the attacker’s foot and step behind the attacker with your opposite leg

• Deliver multiple strikes to the back of the attacker’s head

• Reach over with the hand that you struck with and place your elbow against the attacker’s torso and grab the weapon

• Ensure that your opposite hand is on the weapon or move it off the attacker’s forearm onto the weapon

• Disarm weapon by pulling it forward and up on a 45-degree angle

• Drive weapon horizontally back through the attacker’s head by pivoting on the spot

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Defend Against Horizontal Push

• Block the motion of the weapon as soon as possible by leaning forward and extending your arms out in front of you leading with the inside of your forearms and targeting the attacker’s hands that are on the weapon

• Hook down onto the inside of the weapon and immediately raise it back up by griping it as you would a stick

• Deliver a kick to the groin

• Disarm weapon by using a row like motion making sure that on the second row you continue to drive the weapon through the attacker’s head

• Use the stick object to defend with and exit getting off the line

Basic Drill To Practice

• Stand in one spot and allow the attacker to walk around in front of you 180 degrees

• The attacker will give any stick attack

• Defend the attack remembering to always finish properly by moving and scanning or exiting off the line

• Return to your position and repeat

• Gradually increase the speed of the attacks and defences

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