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The first techniques you need are the ones you need to use when you take your first actions. They need to be quick, so they will surprise the attacker, and devastating, by causing de-habilitating pain or injury.

Body Thrust

This is an effective technique to use when an attacker comes at you with the intent to wrestle you to the ground; it is especially useful when the attacker is much heavier than you are. To use it:

• Step to the side to avoid the initial charge.

• Bend your knees to load your legs.

• Suddenly spring upward pushing off the rear foot.

• Slam both your palm heels inward and upward into the attacker’s upper abdomen or lower ribs.

• This thrust will knock the attacker backward and knock away his or her breath so he or she will be stunned for a moment, allowing you to escape or take further action.

Eye Poke

To gain time to escape, or to stop an attacker in his or her tracks, poke the attacker in the eye. For an eye poke:

• As an attack, step forward and to the side and poke the eye on that side. As a defense, step to the side to avoid the charge and poke the eye on that side.

• Jab a flat spear hand at the attacker’s eye. Do not try to poke both eyes or to use one finger, instead, poke all your fingers at one eye; that way you have greater chance of hitting the eye with at least one finger.

• Even if you miss the eye, the attacker will blink or turn away. If you merely touch the eye, it will immediately water and blur the attacker’s vision. If you hit the eye, the attacker’s threat will be drastically reduced or canceled. Either way, the eye poke will provide you with an opportunity to escape or take further action.

Arm Jam

To stop an attack in its tracks, to prevent an attack from forming, or to keep the attacker away from you, jam the attacker with your arm. To use an arm jam:

• Push the attacker with the palm of one hand while your other hand grasps the palm’s wrist to brace it and add strength to the pushing arm.

• The forearm of the grabbing hand acts as a block against any hand attack.

• Bend forward at the waist to add power to the push and to keep the body away from kicks.

• Tuck the head to protect it from hand attacks.

• Push against the attacker’s head, throat, or body to keep the attacker away. Push against a shoulder to prevent that arm from punching.

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