Self Defense, eye strike, www.PersonalSecurity.TV

10 Apr 2007 · 1 min

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Robert Siciliano demonstrates self-defense techniques to escape an attacker, including eye strikes, throat and neck attacks, and groin kicks. The goal is to disable an assailant or create an opening to get away.

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A sharp either punch or palm heel or karate chop or even a forearm or an elbow or even a knee to the throat, depending on the position you might be in, if you're on the ground, can be enough to cut some of these oxygen off temporarily, giving you an opportunity to escape. Blunt force trauma to the side of the neck, a karate chop to the side of my neck. Like— Right, just like that. Or either side? Either side, right to the side of the neck, right here. Whether it's a punch, a palm heel, a forearm, an elbow, or even a knee, Blunt force trauma to the side of the neck is going to cause pressure. Pressure to the brain or a reduction of pressure from the brain. You're in the getting ready stance, somebody moves in, you gouge to the eyes. Go. Boom. Right. Exactly. And you keep doing it ferociously and viciously either with your thumbs or your pointy finger, whatever it takes to make it difficult for them to continue an attack situation. If they can't see you, they can't fight you. In the event that somebody encroaches upon you, They get on you like this, they grab you. Exactly. A quick, sharp knee to the groin, boom, can really debilitate a guy.