Fighter's Fact Book 2 by Loren W. Christensen

Author:Loren W. Christensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

Simple works best

When both your limbs are in play, you gain an inherent advantage in thwarting a bad guy’s attack, typically making the most of a check/control or check/strike technique in doing so. While the resultant application could be an arm break, it is more common for it to be a strike. In this fashion, a head block (jodan uke), for example, can be performed with a deflection from the lead hand followed immediately by a forearm smash to the bad guy’s head with the other arm. In an ambush situation, however, this type of thing does not always work. You might only be able to make contact with one limb before getting struck again, so I will focus on techniques that can strike or control using only the hand that makes first contact. If that first contact is sufficiently damaging, that will be all you will need to regain control of the encounter and set yourself up to escape to safety (possibly immediately but more likely after thumping the other guy at least once more in the process).

Shock blocks work because they are based upon simple body movements that can be performed under the effects of adrenaline. Since your heart rate can easily double in less than half a second during a sudden violent encounter, it is important to use straightforward techniques that will remain effective under extreme stress. Adrenaline can make you tougher, more resilient, and impervious to pain in combat, but it also degrades your motor skills, hand-eye coordination, precise tracking movements, and exact timing, making complicated techniques very challenging if not impossible to perform. Simple, straightforward applications, on the other hand, remain quite feasible, particularly those involving pre-programmed muscle reflex actions.

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