"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Cecil, recognizing that some striking is taught as a portion of your curriculum*, are there any strikes that you (generally) recommend for more consistent results against a resisting opponent?
*Without compromising/revealing the curriculum that you've taken considerable effort to develop. If you wish to decline to answer, to protect your curricula, no worries.
In all honesty, I don't have one. Barely have the time/energy to stay proficient with a sidearm as a hobby - don't want to tote an extra device that I don't know how to use.
Armored motorcycle gloves, jacket and helmet are usually on me (almost always in transitional spaces) since I decided to go moto only. I have thought about adding pepper spray to the mix.
Dude, I put so much out there discussing this stuff online or with videos and podcasts that I sometimes feel my entire course content is freely available! Nobody ever said I was a particularly clever businessman
The three strikes I think are most useful because of replicability and less time needed to train them are:
1) cross - my go to in anything where striking is warranted. It's the best bang for your buck strike. It is one of the easiest strikes to learn, it is fairly easy to understand how to generate power, it is the longest punch so it helps to keep distance if you do not want to crash in, and it leaves you less open while throwing it.
2) rear uppercut - it does not take long to generate massive power and it takes advantage of where most people (even experienced fighters) are almost always open. It is also a simple technique to learn. The lead uppercut is just as easy to learn and generates almost as much power, but it leaves you more open to counters because your closest limb to the opponent is doing something other than protecting you. With the rear uppercut, you can cover with the lead arm so it is a tad safer.
3) eye jab (the quick snatch-y style that Craig Douglas advocates) - this is NOT a power shot in any way, but it is very simple to learn and to get good at. It should only be used as a quick distracting technique to buy you a second to do something else (i.e. run away, go to weapons, or punch with a harder strike).
Add in Default Cover, and a tight uppercutting elbow and you have strikes that will take care of about 99.5% of your needs in most true self-defense situations.
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