From: beawoulf@next04wor.wam.umd.edu (Yilmaz W. Rona)
Subject: Re: 2 questions.  Please read.
Reply-To: beawoulf@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:44:41 GMT

aaron cammarata `93 writes
> 
> 	 A couple of quick questions I'd like some opinions on:
> 1)
> 	In the unfortunate event that you're attacked, say on the street  
somewhere, and you're not stretched out, as you would be before and during  
training, how do you deal with it?  Obviously, kicks aren't going to be as  
high,
> and the danger of a sprain or tear is much higher.  How do you cope?  Any  
special ideas out there?

The thing to do is to know your limitations when you are cold. Practice one day  
without stretching out before hand, and without allowing your muscles to warm  
up. Try each kicking technique once or at most twice with long rests between.  
Do the same with hand techniques, except that cold tight muscles are not  
generally as limiting to hand techniques.

Then once you know what you can and can't do cold, work out some combinations  
for common situations where you are attacked. These combinations should be  
constructed out of the simplest techniques you know and should not tax your  
flexibility.
 
The goal of your combinations should be aimed towards incapacitating the  
opponent indefinitely. an unconscious or dead man can neither gather his  
friends together to chase after you, nor can he pull a gun and shoot you as you  
try to leave the scene of the fight. YOU SHOULD NOT PLAN TO LEAVE A CONSCIOUS  
OPPONENT! You can't be sure that he won't try stalk you and attack you again if  
you walk away, nor can you stay on the scene holding him prisoner because the  
first people who arrive on the scene will probably be friendly to him and  
unfriendly towards you.

Your combinations should not last more than 5-10 seconds, and the techniques  
within a combinations should flow from each other. Each strike should build  
from the previous. Also be prepared rapidly switch from one combination to  
another. Your opponent might, as improbable as it sounds, do something to  
surprise you, like successfully blocking your "unblockable" barfing dragon  
punch (tm).

Practice the combinations with friends who actively try to find their  
weaknesses. If you and your partners have good control, practice no holds  
barred fighting with the only rule being that no permanent damage is to be done  
to each other. Remember, theory is great, but no substitute for experience and  
practice.


The combinations should include both leg and hand techniques. 

Foot strikes:

    Target the other guy's knees, ankles, and maybe his groin if you are fast  
and flexible. Trying to stomp through someone's ankle or knee with the blade of  
your foot will definitely kill your attacker's mobility, and will probably  
break the targeted joint. Your combinations should lead with foot strikes. You  
can also use your feet to sweep your attacker's legs out from under him,  
dropping him to the ground.

Knee Strikes:

    Target the opponent's groin, stomach, kidneys, and, if you can get him bent  
over, his jaw. Knees should only be used in extremely close quarters, as  
intermediate attacks.

Hand Strikes:

   Target the opponent's jaw, base of his throat, armpit, ears, temples, and  
base of neck. Unless you can make a perfect fist without thinking about it, use  
knifehand and base palm strikes. Slapping you opponent on the ear, or poking  
him in the windpipe at the base of the throat will stun him momentarily and  
degrade his fighting ability for the rest of the fight (If he's busy hurling  
his lunch on the sidewalk he won't be able to fight you). If you have powerful  
handstrikes, a fast flurry of base-palms to the second rib under your  
opponent's left nipple will cause his heart to start fibrillating. Your  
combination should finish up with handstrikes.

Elbow strikes:

Anywhere from your opponent's belly-button up. Primary targets should be the  
opponent's jaw, solar-plexus, temple and kidneys. These strikes are effective  
only when you are in extremely tight quarters, and your combinations should not  
rely on them.

PS: My newsmailer has been acting up lately and doing funny things like not  
letting me post or "creatively" editing my postings. The "attributions" I made  
to Axel were accidental and due attempting to post from a beta-site. I  
appologise for the confusion caused.

					Yilmaz Rona

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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!


Unless you do southern style Wu-shu, in which case the converse is true.