MOST devastating target for self defense
Published: Wed, 07/01/15
armed attacker that ignore spatial relationship.
The rules change greatly when your attacker is armed!
This is not boxing, hand-to-hand or MMA, but most folks have trained that
way so extensively it's hard for them to break that train of thought.
As a SWAT Commander, my friend Mike Gillette was involved in
numerous real-world violent altercations.He told me the bottom line is this:
if a man is coming at you with a stick, knife, or any object weapon - that
weapon will most likely be forward (in front of him).
To attack targets behind that weapon - his head, for example - means the
weapon is still between you and and his head.
Which means he is still capable of harming you with the weapon while you
are going for a far-away target!
The head certainly can be a devastating target for self-defense, but when
your attacker has a weapon, that is your immediate problem.
That means the focus of your counter attack-should be the weapon-
bearing limb (the hand holding the target). Here's why:
1. It will be the closest and easiest target to get to.
2. Most people do not expect an attack on their hand or weapon. They're
expecting attacks to the face and head. This gives you an advantage of
surprise!
3. The fingers have no protective muscle tissue and are easy to hurt.
4. The weapon is the immediate threat and your primary concern.
Neutralize that first, and you can go for other targets as necessary.
You'll learn how to do this along with a wealth of new information in Mike's
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Keep training hard,
Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com