Training Jedi Knight Types Lesson 7 Red Dot Robot - Part VI

PART V: From the Front (continued, B)

By Stephen Cheney

FROM THE FRONT (continued, C)

• The Grooves going down into the Groin:
At the top of the thighs are grooves where the body joins the thighs. The grooves form a “V”. If you are close or can get close then a hard punch or strike there will cause a person to bend forward. This is useful in bringing a taller person’s head down to your level to target and off balance them.

• The Groin:
Prime Target. It has a large area and is often highly vulnerable with a strong paralysing reaction. However, not always. A person high on their own adrenaline or drugs may be struck there without any crippling effect. Also the area is often well protected and an attack there readily expected. Never rely on a groin strike to do anything but distract the opponent’s mind: instantly follow up with some other crippling strike. The groin strike will often bring down their head so you can strike that. Also their feet will usually remain in place and you can stomp the foot.

• The Inside of the Thigh:
Half way up the inner thigh is an exposed nerve. A close knee or far foot strike there may cause the leg to collapse. However, the well conditioned thighs of fighters, such as from practicing Muay Thai or Brazilian JuJutsu might take such strikes. It is normally a highly exposed target. So there is no other leg on its outer side, the folding leg can buckle and down the opponent falls. This occurs if you don’t just hit to hurt but hit to THRUST THROUGH the leg: it is the push through buckles the leg and down they go. So that means you must be close enough to still have your leg bent when your foot contacts the opponent’s inner thigh. There is a similar point just above the inside knee.

• The Outside of the Thigh:
Half way up the outer thigh is an exposed nerve. A close knee or shin strike there is often sought to paralyse the leg. It is called “Charlie’s Horse”. However, the well conditioned thighs of fighters (Muay Thai, Brazilian JuJutsu) can take such strikes. It is normally a highly exposed target. Hitting there may not topple a person as they have their other leg in place to brace their balance.

• The Knee (from all directions):
Prime Target. People normally wear shoes. A hard kick to the knee should damage it and end the fight. No mobility, no fighting. And such a strike does not Kill, a very important factor in its use. The damage may be permanent however, and the fighter never fight again. This is why in sports such as Sport Karate kicking to the knee is banned. So in that way Sport Karate is not OK for street defence, UNLESS there is a trained acceptance to kick the knee. The knee is far from the opponent’s protecting arms and so is your prime and best target in a street fight. Your longer leg can hit his knee before his arm can hit you (providing you kick fast and hard at the right time (side-kicks to the front are preferred as front kicks with their narrower focus can easily miss in the stress and motion of a real fight).

• The Shin:
The Shin is a leg bone from front of knee to the foot , and normally you do not strike your bone on their bone. However, the Shin is like the Sternum, it has nerves on its surface on the inner side of each leg. The shin bone when kicked hard generates a lot of sharp pain and distracts the mind, allowing a follow up attack. If grabbed from behind you might be able to scrape your shoe all then way down to a stomp on top of their foot. A one-footed person cannot fight very well.

• The Ankle:
Not a commonly thought of target, until one gets hit there by a hard kick and then it is very painful and takes the leg out of commission. The ankle, as a bone, cannot be strengthened against an impact, as for you so they are the same. A low kick is hard to block and the only defence is to move the foot before it gets hit. So if kicking the ankle, distract their mind first to a higher region.

• The Instep:
Prime Target.
A large exposed area on top of the front of the foot. Even with a shoe on protecting it, it is still vulnerable to a stomp. A hard stomp on the Instep with a shoed heel can break the thin delicate bones there and while they are jumping around on one foot they cannot fight. Fight over, run away. When grabbed from behind and their feet near yours: stomp hard. This is why grabbers may spread their legs and feet so that you cannot stomp: then just deliver a hard heel back up into their groin.

FROM THE REAR:

• Rear of Neck:
Is the back of the spine. Unfortunately a blow (chop) from a light person on a heavy man may only stun a little. However a heavy blow can do extreme damage (think paraplegic) or kill. A strike by a light person’s elbow point here is dangerous. This is a KILL point not to be struck unless you know that you are in the physical process of being killed by your attacker.

• The Spine:
Dangerous if damaged. A knee or elbow into the spine can do damage, and maybe that damage cannot be repaired. So not a target unless your life is in danger. Same with the bottom part of the spine: the coccyx.

• Kidneys:
Prime Target.
The kidney’s lack protection from a rear attack. They are only covered by sheet muscle. A penetrating blow into the kidneys can cause bleeding and shock. Commandoes, in rear attacks on sentries find it effective to lodge their blade-point into a kidney as they cover the sentry’s mouth.
Hammerfists or chops to a kidney have a shock effect. More deadly is using a harder pointed part of your body, such as a projecting knuckle from your fist or an elbow point.

• Back of Knee:
Prime Target.
The knee can be struck from any direction. You side-kick the knee from behind or from the side of the opponent. To collapse their leg and they drop forward onto their knee where you are mobile and they are not. From there their head can be targeted and/or you run away. Don’t just kick to the back of their knee: kick Through it and press their knee/lower leg all the way down to the ground. Take care and do slowly with your training partner.

• Achilles Tendon:
Tendons are connectors that tie muscle to bone. The Achilles Tendon at the rear of the foot anchors the Calf muscle to the heel. If it is smashed, damaged or cut the lower leg no longer mechanically can work. On one foot they cannot fight. Fight over, run away.

These are not all the Atemi Points, but just some that are more easily found in the chaos of a fight, especially easier if wrestling rather than boxing, when vital body points are more stationary and fixed so harder to alleviate damage by moving them away to go in the same direction as the striking force.

PART VII: From Any Direction

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