Regardless of where you live, the likelihood of finding yourself a victim of a physical assault is always a possibility. While a number of martial arts schools can teach you how to manipulate an opponent's body to gain leverage in a self-defense situation, it is difficult to prepare for the adrenaline of live combat. Whether you want to perfect your fighting techniques, or simply increase your ability to protect those you love, these basic self-defense techniques will help you survive a conflict situation.
Kicks to Vital Areas
Easily the most effective martial technique for stunning and disabling a male opponent is a kick or knee to the groin. When finding yourself in a conflict scenario, immediately assess your opponent's defensive capabilities. If your attacker is without a knife, gun or other weapon, make a quick attempt to distract your opponent while kicking his groin. If the blow connects and your attacker becomes temporarily immobilized, take the opportunity to run away or seek help (do not waste vital time taunting your attacker). If the groin region is not a clear target, use your kicks to maintain distance between you and your attacker while maintaining balance and bodily equilibrium. Use easy and stable kicks such as the front kick (jabbing your heel waist-level at a opponent directly in front of you) or the shin scrape (kicking down at your opponent's shins and scraping down the leg) to maintain balance while causing as much damage as possible.
Punches and Strikes
One of the primary instructions taught in self-defense workshops involves using your car keys as a weapon. Quickly grab your keys and position them within your fist so that two keys jut out directly between your knuckles, with a key between your pointer and middle, as well as middle and ring finger, respectively. This creates a small weapon from your hand that will cause your punches to be more damaging. When punching your opponent, pivot your hips as if your were throwing a baseball and aim at the bridge of your attacker's nose with your two largest knuckles (the ring and pinky finger knuckles can break too easily when punching). If you cannot reach your opponent's face, aim instead for the solar plexus region immediately below where your attacker's ribs end down the center of his body. Punches to the bridge of the nose can easily break your opponent's nose, stunning him and causing bleeding, while a blow to the solar plexus can render him disabled through loss of breath.
Techniques Against Weapons
The persistent fact of physical assault cases is that the attacker will generally attempt the attack with a weapon. In situations wherein your opponent has a gun, do not attempt to fight or disarm your opponent unless you have received considerable training in doing so. In cases where you are held at gunpoint with a firearm, the safest and smartest strategy is to simply follow your attacker's commands unless he puts the firearm down, in which case you kick him in the groin. If your opponent is attacking you with a knife, pipe or other weapon, keep him at bay with kicks until he moves into close range. Disarming his weapon is your priority in this situation and can be done with careful grabs to the wrist and wrist-locks initiated on the hand holding the weapon. Wait until your opponent leads with an attack, and grab his wrist with one hand while either kicking him in the groin or striking his nose or solar plexus. If the pain of your blow has not weakened his grip on his weapon, use two hands to twist his wrist until causing enough pain to disarm him.
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