Hi All,
If you have ever been in a real fight, you know that most street fighters are head hunters.
That is they will immediately try to hit you in the face or some place on your head. They have been conditioned by watching boxing matches and mma fights into thinking that one good punch to the jaw will knock the other guy out, that is correct if you do it right. You will know if a person is trained by the way they punch. Straight punches usually means the person has been trained in how to punch at least, were as big wild round punches usually means no training. You can use the upper cut on both of these fighters. To use the upper cut on a trained fighter or some one who throws straight punches. As the punch is thrown you either have to step straight in to the persons center line ( to the middle of his body ) or step to the outside of his arm on a 45 degree angle . We will discuss stepping straight in.
Say the person throws a straight right punch to your face if you step straight in with your right foot and block with a left out block coming from the center of your body out , hit his arm with the outside of your left forearm and then let your hand slide down and grab his arm at the bicep. At the same time deliver the right upper cut hitting him under his chin. Bring it up from your waist level , he won't see it coming because it is below his line of vision. This is a rude stop !! you can now right elbow him across his jaw since you are still holding his right arm. Follow up by hooking his one of his legs (which ever one is forward) and grabbing his face with your right hand and pushing him down. The first strike, the upper cut sets up all the rest.
If a person throws a big wild round house motion punch at your head you step on a 45 degree angle with your left foot and do your left block at the bicep and then upper cut under the chin. This will change the follow up as you will be more to one side so you could do a back elbow to the side of his head and then wrap your arm around his neck and do a guillotine choke or wrap and fall back and ram his head into the ground.
If you decide to try these techniques go slow and be care full as you can get hurt very easily.
Do so at your own risk !!
If you would like to learn more about using angles and straight lines in fighting go here and check out my book : The Use of Lines, Angles & Circles in Hand to Hand Combat
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Peace ! Jerry
