439 - (FREE) Training diary: "The Bouncer's Sucker Slap"
Pre-emptive striking, slaps, sucker punch, distraction...
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"The Bouncer's Sucker Slap"
This idea is an old staple with a certain well-known combatives franchise.
It is basically a sucker punch developed for use by bouncers (the context in which I will put it forward here) that employs a distraction and then a power slap.
Set up position
You are directly in front of an aggressive member of the public who has their hands down and is getting in your face.
You are using a variation of Thompson’s fence tactic:
Bladed, left-side forward.
Your lead left hand is establishing range with a reaching open hand and congruent with saying “Okay mate, I’m listening..what’s the problem?”
Your right open hand is held back slightly and is turned palm inward to give the overall look of a conversational reasoning stance, which of course it isn’t.
Pre-emptive striking
You decide that you need to strike this person.
Your lead left hand makes contact with the aggressor (at the chest) while you run your fingers lightly down towards their groin as you turn your body towards your right.
This is claimed to have the effect of dropping their attention to the descending left hand and distracting them(!).
The turn to the right is loading your already positioned, right open hand which is then aggressively launched in a powerful, wheeling hook movement at the left side of their neck/jaw/head to form a power slap.
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