480 - (FREE TO READ) Training Diary: Short striking in confined spaces
A training scenario for reader consideration
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Short-strikes
A lot of stuff changes when space starts to be constrained. Grapplers will be on home ground (pun intended…) but the usual and comfortable tactics may not apply so well though when it comes to striking.
Sure there are clinch tactics very much perfected in disciplines such as MMA and boxing but the world is full of space-robbing “inconveniences” that must be reckoned with: walls, floors, cars, crowds, the list goes on. Short work is a huge field of study, here is one example:
Scenario
You get backed up by an aggressor’s encroachment - possibly up to a wall or against other people and as such feel unable to position your hands so as to punch in a conventional manner and escape.
Your hands must be up at the moment this happened for the following option to be realistically viable. It may well not be easy to get your hands up after this moment as the space could be limited and you might already be in the process of being assaulted at that point!
While the aggressor is splayed posturing, spitting hate in your face, and threatening to strike with a raised fist…
Drop a hammer fist with as much weight behind it as you can directly downwards from (12 o’clock - 2 o’clock) to their face - their temple, eye socket, nose, and jaw are prime candidates for your attention.
This may create some limited space for your upper body to move better as their head retracts somewhat backward from the impact of your strike.
Immediately follow up with a hooking 3 o’clock elbow strike using the same limb that you just struck with. So if it was a right hammerfist, you are now striking with a right elbow.
Strike with the elbow to their jaw. This is a very powerful, short lever strike that may well break the jaw immediately and also cause unconsciousness if you can deliver it well.
Move into them, grab and “attach” to their clothing, the back of their neck, or their hair to continue striking with the same elbow.
Keep striking until the first opportunity to violently shove them away and escape.
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