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01:52Hello, my name is Larry Tatum. Welcome to Volume 3 of Kenpo Self-Defense Techniques. In this particular tape, I'm
01:59going to build on the theories and principles, the concepts that we learned from the previous two tabs.
02:04shapes. And with the help of Rick, we'll get started. Okay, Rick, if you would go to left
02:10neutral bow. Now, I'm going to teach you five techniques for the inside of a right punch,
02:16five techniques for the outside of a right punch, five techniques for the inside and
02:20outside of a left punch, five techniques for the inside and outside of a right kick as
02:25well as a left kick. This will get you started on using not only just your imagination, but
02:32getting familiarized with set combinations. Remember, these are not rules, they're ideas,
02:38and you can change these combinations at will. So as you practice these and as you learn them,
02:43and if you practice them with another person, do them as they're taught and then change them to fit
02:49the situation. Play the what if game. What if he threw a left right after I did my first strike?
02:54Or what if he threw a kick after I blocked my first punch? But this will get you started on
03:01set
03:01combinations. Now, we're going to start for a somewhat hooking right punch. I'm going to step
03:07in, use a right inward block, make sure I have a check. From the blocking position, I'm going to
03:12step up just a little bit and use a right outward hand sword to the side of the neck. Then
03:19I'm going
03:19to pivot to a forward bow, and I'm going to use a heel palm strike. The heel palm strike is
03:24going to
03:24pivot as well as I pivot into a forward bow. So from that position, we're going to heel palm at
03:31this
03:31point and then uppercut. We're going to bring Rick over, bring his head down somewhat as I pivot out
03:35of my right forward bow into my right neutral. That's the next shot. Now, if you watch this again,
03:43we're going to go one inward, hand sword, heel palm, uppercut. From this point, I'm going to have you
03:53step off, leave your right foot as an axis. And as you step off, you're going to slip, not just
03:59this
04:00bottom hand, but you're going to slip the bottom hand and the right elbow as we come across. If
04:05you take that a little slower, this hand claws, and then as you step off to create a better angle
04:10of delivery, and that's a new word for you, I'm going to slip the elbow strike from that position.
04:16Now, let's take it from the beginning. We'll slow it down a little bit. So we have one, two, three,
04:23four, catch the face, hold on to it somewhat, slip the elbow. All right, the next move I want you
04:30to
04:30do is I want you to cross out. But as you cross out, I want you to add a move
04:35because you're done
04:35with your opponent, but you're going to add a move as you cross out. So as we do it,
04:40we're going to back knuckle to the face, sternum, whatever target is most open at that time. And
04:48hold your position, step on out, and then a reverse step through and keep your guard up. Keep your eye
04:54on your opponent. All right, now watch it quickly because I'm going to combine this all together
04:59without me talking so you get a better idea of how this is going to move. On this particular
05:16technique, I want Rick to throw another right punch. This one's going to be a little bit straighter.
05:21So rather than go out to an inward block, I'm going to use an inward parry on this, and I'm
05:27going to
05:27start from a right 45 degree cap stance. Rick, if you put your guard up, he's going to start in
05:32a
05:32left neutral bow. I'm going to start from a cap stance to give you another idea that you don't
05:35have to start all techniques from a neutral feet together, but you can start from a cap stance.
05:42Now, as the punch comes, we're going to parry. We're going to do a right inward parry,
05:48and as I parry, I'm going to do a right, a left rather, outward parry. Then I'm going to slip
05:54in,
05:54and as I slip in and roll off of this, I'm going to use a back knuckle strike.
06:00From the back knuckle strike, I'm going to take my left hand. Remember, we're doing two-arm
06:05kemple now. I'm going to roll up, stay in my neutral bow, claw the face, and then execute a
06:11back knuckle to the hinge of the jaw or chin. At this point, I'm going to drag up to my
06:16cap stance
06:16again. I'm going to hook Rick in his left eye, and as I hook, I'm going to sweep the inside
06:22of his
06:23right leg, and as I sweep, I'm going to simultaneously chop the inside of his solar plexus at this point
06:30and cover out into a left neutral bow. Okay, now watch me again. We start what? But in a right
06:3945-degree cat stance, we do a double parry back knuckle. Stay in our neutral, claw, vertical back
06:46knuckle. We're going to sweep the leg as we simultaneously hook, and as we hook, we sweep
06:53and cover out.
06:58Now, I want you to watch this a little faster, as if this was on the street.
07:02We're prepared for this situation, so we do have time to take a stance.
07:14All right, now I'm going to stay on the inside of the right punch for the third technique. Again,
07:18I'm going to use a double parry, but I'm going to shorten my weapon, and if Rick comes up,
07:23he starts in a left neutral bow, and I'm going to start this from a neutral stance. As the punch
07:27comes,
07:28it's straight again. I'm going to double parry, but rather than use a back knuckle, I'm going to
07:31purposely get in close. You may prefer this, so I'm going to give you that option to work with.
07:37Rather than the back knuckle, we're going to shuffle right in and slip the elbow. We're going to heel
07:43palm, possibly catching the eye too. But now, as we heel palm, I want you to go to a forward
07:48bow,
07:49and let your right hand circle around and come with a looping overhead strike. As that rotates up,
07:56we're going to catch the throat, then we're going to come across and chop the left side of his neck.
08:02At this point, I'm going to drop back, catching from the neck. I'm going to drop down,
08:07catching the outside of his right knee. I'm going to keep covering out and keep my guard up,
08:15keep my eye on it. Watch again. It's a double parry and an elbow. A heel palm to a forward
08:23bow,
08:23looping overhead strike, track along my own arm, chop, stay in my forward bow, come back with a chop,
08:29draw back to a close kneel, keep your check up so something doesn't come flying in your face,
08:34and cross out. Keep your eye on your opponent.
08:42Now, let's do this more at street speed, get an idea of how these circles are interwoven,
08:48motion, along with circular and linear motion, as well.
09:00All right, still working on the inside of a right. Let's go to a technique that's going to start
09:06instead of just with the hands, but it's going to be a simultaneous double parry with a front snap
09:11kick. Now, with the help of Rick, he starts in his neutral stance. I'm going to start in a cat
09:15stance
09:16again, and as Rick begins to come in, I'm going to simultaneously kick and parry. All right, now watch
09:21this again. From this position, parry and kick. I'm going to plant with a hand sword. I'm going to step
09:28off at this point, and as I step off, I'm going to go to a right forward bow and heel
09:33palm at the same
09:34time. Now, from that position in my right forward bow, I'm going to leave my hand here checking, but I'm
09:39leaving it out so that you can see what I'm going to do next. It's from here as I'm going
09:43to pivot back
09:44into a left forward bow, and as I pivot, I'm going to hammer with a right overhead hammer fist. I'm
09:51going to keep his shoulders checked, and I'm going to knee to the inside of the thigh, and as I
09:56hit the
09:57thigh, it's going to bring him back somewhat, and then I'm going to come underneath, and if you watch what
10:01I'm doing, I'm coming from here, lifting the head up. I'm going to step off and rake right across the
10:09front
10:09of the chest. Okay, now watch it again. I'm going to explain it again. Parry and kick simultaneous.
10:18Chop, heel palm, hammer, knee, and as I knee, my right hand goes back. As this checks,
10:25I lift him up again. Step off and rake with a hammer fist or middle knuckle right across the chest.
10:35Okay, now we're going to do this a little faster so you get a better idea
10:38of how this looks in a street situation.
10:53Now the fifth technique for the inside of a right punch. I'm going to use this a little different.
10:58So far, I've been using basically my right side forward. What I'm going to do now is use my left
11:04side forward. I'm going to do a left extended outward block. And watch for a stance change as
11:09this occurs. Rick starts with his guard up. He steps in. I go down to a wide kneel, execute a
11:16front
11:17thrust punch. From this point here, I complement the angle of his body using a heel palm claw on my
11:24way
11:24out. And no sooner that that hits, it comes up. But then suddenly, I grab and claw the groin at
11:31this
11:31point. All right, now watch again. And I'm going to start, drop into a wide kneel, rip and claw out
11:40at
11:41this point. Now, if we shoot a little faster, you're going to notice that when I drop into Rick,
11:50I'm not going to hold my right hand back as long as I was when I was showing you how
11:55this worked.
11:56Now watch as we do this at street speed and watch how my punch actually moves with the block as
12:02Rick
12:03comes in. All right, now let's go to the inside of a right snapping ball kick or a thrusting ball
12:13kick. It can
12:16do this first technique. I'm going to use a universal block. Now, we learned it earlier as such, a downward
12:22block and an inward block united together. Now, Rick starts with his guard up in a left neutral bow.
12:28As the kick comes, I'm going to take my universal block, which is no more than what we call an
12:33open
12:33end triangle. All right. So as I take it, you notice that the left downward has a tendency to move
12:39Rick
12:40off to the side. All right. But as that happens, I want to create a wedge and give Rick a
12:46little pull.
12:46If I pull too hard, I'll cancel out my hands and I'll have to use an elbow at this point,
12:51which is fine,
12:51but that's not what my intentions are right now. So as I pull Rick, I'm pulling just enough that I
12:57can
12:57get a back knuckle and a heel palm strike in. You can pick the tempo as a target here,
13:04the back of the ear, which is the mastoid. And then from here, I'm going to step. It's more than
13:10just
13:10a kick, but it's an exaggerated step. As I'm going to step through Rick, punch the right side of his
13:15jaw, cross in with an elbow to the sternum, buckle his leg out into a reverse bow and hammer to
13:23the
13:23groin or ribs. I'm going to lift him up with an outward block, a vertical outward, which now becomes
13:30not just an outward block, but a strike. I'm going to then go into an in-place twist stance.
13:36And you guessed it. My left hand is going to heel palm on the sternum. I'm going to knee to
13:42the groin,
13:43but as my knee goes to the groin, my right hand continues to flow. And as I plant in a
13:48neutral,
13:49Rick's going to be struck with a diagonal hammer fist.
13:55Now, I know this is a lot. And you might say, well, are you training this to be overkill? No,
14:03we're training you to be overskilled. It's having a mastery of manipulation
14:09that if your first move doesn't work, if your second move doesn't and so forth, you have an
14:13immediate follow up. That's what this is teaching you. Quite obviously, any one of these strikes would
14:18drop somebody if it's delivered properly, strong enough, fast enough, and at the right target.
14:23But when so many people are on drugs and they can take abuse, like I've discussed in other tapes,
14:27you must have knowledge of immediate follow up and a variety of targets. Hitting the same target over
14:33and over gets desensitized to the strike. We've found that out. The important thing is that you can
14:39go at random and choose targets. And that's what this teaches you, not to be over an overkiller,
14:44but to be over skilled. All right, now we're going to start again. And I'll show you that we use
14:49this universal block to pick up block and stretch Rick out, back knuckle, heel palm. And I might add,
14:57when somebody is stretched out, he's more worried about his own balance than he is actually of hitting
15:02you. And that's a good point to remember, because you get him stretched out deep enough that it allows
15:06you to work up here while he's trying to straighten up his balance. So we give him an angle of
15:11disturbance,
15:12and we've learned that before. All right, now back knuckle, heel palm strike. We follow now with a
15:17step through ball kick to the lower stomach or groin, a right vertical punch to the right side of the
15:23jaw. We do a rear crossover, a left rear crossover, an outward elbow to the sternum or throat. We buckle
15:30the leg as we simultaneously hammer the groin. Now, if you watch the arm again, it's no more than the
15:37inside of your forearm. It's a forearm strike. And like I showed you earlier in the other tapes,
15:43I'm exposing you to those things that we've previously learned and to show you where they
15:47fit. You're never without a weapon. From this point, we don't have to punch with the left hand.
15:52I don't have to re-cock and punch. All I have to do is move from point of origin. I've
15:57got a new weapon.
15:58It's always there. So think of more than just your fist as a weapon, but your entire body as a
16:04weapon.
16:04As I come up, make my heel palm strike, knee to the groin, and hammer diagonally.
16:13Now, we're going to show this a little faster, give you more of a street idea of what's going on.
16:19Watch the angles that I choose, and watch how quickly I shift
16:23into the targets that I feel will fit the situation.
16:42Right now, we're going to stay on the inside of a right kick, but I'm going to use a stance
16:46change.
16:47I'm going to use a parry. I'm going to use an inside downward parry. And what's going to happen
16:52Rick starts with his guard up into a left neutral bow, and I'm in a right neutral bow.
16:57We're not even now. It's not right to right or left to left, but it's his left to my right.
17:02Okay. Now, as that kick comes, I'm going to pick it up, and I'm going to go to a reverse
17:07bow. And my
17:08pickup begins with the inside parry. Using my forearm as a parry, I'm going to pick it up and continue
17:15the
17:15circle and put Rick back down in position. It's quite obvious what's next. You can see where my heel is.
17:22Now, we are going to do a stiff leg raise, or it could be a heel scoop, but I'm not
17:27going to use a heel scoop.
17:28I'm going to use a stiff leg raise at this point. Now, what's important about this is that you remember
17:35that as you pick his leg up, that you get the kick in before his foot touches the ground.
17:43If you don't, the moment his foot touches the ground, he's automatically back on both feet,
17:47and he can spin and kick with the other leg, or start running away for that matter.
17:52So we're going to catch it, pick it up, make our hit. We're going to go to an in-place
17:57twist stance,
17:58and we're going to back knuckle. It's going to be a raking motion, and then we're going to punch
18:03with the opposite hand. From here, I'm just going to unwind. I'm going to use the torque of a twist
18:08stance, and as I do, I'm going to come up again catching the sternum with that heel. As I catch
18:14him on my way out, I'm going to buckle the leg and then step out. Now, let's watch it again.
18:21I start in a right, neutral bow. I pick it up with a parry. I continue the circle, make my
18:27hit.
18:28Back knuckle, about the point in the turn when I'm in a neutral, and then as I go to my
18:32twist stance,
18:33then I drop in to the punch. I'm working on Rick's what? That vertical line that he can't move on
18:40now,
18:41that height zone. I'm going to unwind and use a hop to catch that up, execute another kick,
18:47do a reverse step through, and I'm finished. All right, now let's try it. It's a little more
18:51street speed and see what we can come up with. All right, now watch my arm. Watch how the parry
19:09and my leg both move in unison. They both move together, and you notice that I don't pivot on
19:16the ball of the foot, but like we learned in our reverse step throughs, when we go backwards,
19:21we pivot on the what? On the heel, so that the parry and the footwork move together.
19:28So as I pick up the leg, I pick it up together, and before that foot hits down,
19:34I make my stiff leg raise. Execute the back knuckle strike, twist stance to the punch to the kidney,
19:43unwind, put a little hop into it, catch that heel up into the groin or the sternum, because that can
19:48go all the way up to the sternum. Execute the kick, and then I'm out. Now we're going to go
19:54back to the
19:55inside of the kick, but we're also going to go to the outside of a second kick. This is an
19:59aggressive
20:00street situation. The guy is pushing. He's not deterred by your first parry. You didn't get your first kick
20:06in quick enough, so he's still coming at you. Now he's going to do a snapping ball kick and a
20:10spinning back kick. It looks something like this. We'll do it slow. As Rick begins his kick, I pick
20:16it up, reverse bow, but now I see the other kick. It's imminent. It's coming, so I drop back and
20:21parry
20:21into a twist stance. I unwind, protect myself with my hands, kick the groin, come over to a cat stance,
20:28come up and kick the solar plexus, and pivot without hesitation into the other knee. Cross out
20:34with a back knuckle. All right, good. The important thing to remember on this technique,
20:40again, is to pivot on the heel so everything's working together. Now keep your back as straight
20:46as possible. Don't raise the arm up or down. Just hinge from the elbow, and when you lower your height
20:51as the kick begins, your parry will be a perfect lineup for the kick. As I begin to unwind, my
20:59hands
20:59come up, and so does my foot. Come over to my cat stance. The options are obvious. I can catch
21:05the
21:05face if I need to. I could heel palm as I kick. All that's open to you. We're going to
21:11stick primarily
21:12to the kicks on this particular technique, though. So let's do it a little faster, more street speed,
21:17and see what we come up with. All right, now we're going to go to the outside of a right
21:29kick,
21:30and then it's going to be followed up immediately by a right punch. Now we're going to use intricate
21:35handwork in this, but it's nothing that you haven't already had. In the experiment with it,
21:39you'll be able to develop this as well. Rick will put his guard up. Now as the kick comes,
21:44I'm going to drop back, use a right downward block, and drop back to a twist stance at the same
21:50time.
21:51The moment I do that, Rick is going to follow up with a punch. It'll be a vertical punch. It's
21:57coming straight towards my face. What I'm going to do at this point, I'm going to block the kick,
22:01and I'm going to do a left inward block, but I'm going to unwind from my twist stance to execute
22:07that
22:07block. All right, now here's where the intricacy comes in. I drop back, and just as the punch comes,
22:15and I unwind, and he starts punching, I'm going to off angle, get off to the side of it, pivot
22:20out,
22:20and snap that elbow. And you'll find that as I do an inward block, and then an outward block together,
22:27I get that elbow break at this point. I'm going to let the break peel off the arm. It's going
22:34to
22:34offer me a check. Remember, we've talked about this earlier in checking. I'm going to slip past it,
22:39do a raking hammer fist, come around behind Rick, catch a back knuckle to the ribs,
22:46check the arm down again, get myself a pinning check, and just as my hand comes down, I'm going to
22:52come up and catch Rick with a looping overhead strike. All right, now let's look at this at
22:56another angle. Rick comes in with a kick, we use our downward block, the punch comes, we break the
23:02elbow, we check, we step through with a raking hammer fist, back knuckle to the ribs, check the
23:07arm down. And this check, by the way, is a heel palm, so it also becomes a strike. As that
23:13checks and
23:14strikes, that has a tendency to bring his head forward. And now we're going to rake the eyes possibly,
23:20but we're going to be more worried about keeping that arm checked. And as that arm comes down the
23:25check, just at that point, we're going to come up with a hammer, a looping overhead hammer strike.
23:35All right, now let's see this a little more street speed and watch again how I keep him checked as
23:42I move.
23:51With this part in the tape, I want to work on chokes, locks, and holds. I'm going to give you
23:56a variety of techniques so that you can get a better idea of what to expect, how to practice,
24:02what are your targets, how are your openings created, how quickly your targets can be
24:07locked in on as well. With the help of Rick, I'd like to start with
24:14bear hugs. Now that's a hold. And a bear hug, usually in the Kempel system, refers to somebody
24:20hugging you from behind, whether it be with your arms pinned or your arms free. In either case,
24:27a bear hug applied by somebody that's strong enough could be just as, in many cases, deadly
24:32as being hit. All right, now the important thing is, is that in a bear hug,
24:38as in any technique that we've learned, is to check the hands. Because if we stomp his foot,
24:45the hands could come flying up to the face. Or if we hit the groin again, the hands can go
24:49traveling someplace else. But ideally, whatever we're going to do as we simultaneously defend
24:55ourselves in our defense and we have our offense simultaneously, is that just it. They work
24:59simultaneously. Now, if I decided to pin his hands so they don't go in my face and step over to
25:04my left to
25:05the horse and hammer to the groin, it's quite obvious. I'm going to get a good effect out of
25:09Rick back there. He's hit in the groin. His hands are going to go down to where it hurts. And
25:14as he
25:14grabs to protect himself, well, we've already learned to scoop kick, so we're going to break the fingers
25:19and catch the groin again. Look back over our shoulder and give a back kick. And then we're crossed
25:24out and back into position. Now watch at it from this angle. I check the hands, hammer to the groin.
25:33His hands go down because it hurts. The fingers are down there. He's trying to protect himself.
25:38We scoop him, step out just far enough away that he can't reach me, but close enough to where I
25:44can
25:44make my kick, cross out, and I'm in position again. All right, let's show that a little more street speed.
25:51And I think it's best that we show it from this angle here. Okay, I'm grabbed, right?
25:59And then out. Now, as we go further into these chokes, locks, and holds, I want you to understand
26:05the theory of four zones that your opponent has to penetrate to get to you to put you in a
26:11lock,
26:11a choke, or a hold. Now, what I mean by this is, were you surprised? Did somebody come behind you
26:16and
26:17lock your arm behind your back? That's one method of getting in. But was it through not knowing how
26:23to prepare yourself in those zones? And this is what I mean. Now, with the help of Rick, if he
26:28has
26:28his right leg forward and right neutral bow, and if I can't reach Rick, that's called or has been called
26:35out of range control. Basically, we say control because if I move or feint or gesture, I'm going to
26:42start to get Rick to move. All right, now, if I'm close enough to where I can touch Rick, that's
26:47called
26:47within range control. I'm close enough to where I can touch him and really have a definite effect
26:52on how his body moves physically. Now, the third one, if I pass that first line of defense, by the
26:59way,
26:59which goes from the fist all the way down to the toes, if I pass that and I get in
27:04there where I can
27:05actually punch, kick, or so forth, that's called penetration, control penetration. That's where
27:11you're in deep enough to where now you are striking the body, not only the defense, but in the interior.
27:17Beyond that point, the last control zone is called or has been called the manipulation control. That's
27:23where I'm close enough to where I can really manipulate, twist the joints, choke, whatever I
27:30have to do, jam with my knees as I'm doing it, and apply different locks and so forth. All right,
27:38these self-defense techniques that you're learning now, we're talking about chokes and within this
27:44range. Now, how did he get in here? Well, there's a number of ways to get in. And as we
27:48go to the
27:49freestyling tape, I'll show you how you can penetrate those zones as well. But what are you going to do
27:55when it's penetrated? If Rick and I were freestyling and we were fighting, sparring back and forth, and
28:00suddenly he moved in and grabbed my wrist and torqued them behind my back, if I didn't have any knowledge
28:08I'd be out of the game. But if he did that same move again, and he penetrated all those zones,
28:15well, then I could just go with the action, step back, take Rick down, apply the measure that's
28:22appropriate for the time. Now, another method, if Rick and I are freestyling and he happens to grab my
28:29lead wrist with his lead hand as we're sparring and punching and so forth, all I have to do now
28:34is apply
28:34manipulation control because he slipped in so deep into that last zone that he's a part of me now.
28:42And I don't waste my time trying to get rid of the grab and then going back to penetration control.
28:49So it works on both sides. Rather, I just take what happens, if it's deep enough, use it from that
28:55point. Then as I move away, well, quite obviously, then I start using the further of the four. All right,
29:03now, there's other ways that a guy can get in, can control you. He can get in and grab you.
29:07As you're
29:08freestyling or sparring, he can come in and choke. What do I do? Well, if I know my self-defense
29:14techniques for that zone, by just applying my arm and look at it from this angle here,
29:21if he grabs my gi and starts choking, my gi acts as a focum against me. But if I stick
29:27my arm,
29:28anchor it in, go ahead and choke. It's impossible to choke because he has nothing to work against.
29:32Now, what I do from here is I can apply many techniques, but that's not important because
29:37you've learned enough of them to where you can make up your own at this point. All right, now,
29:43let's go into front bear hug. Now, we went to a rear bear hug. Now, I want to go into
29:49a front bear hug.
29:50Here, the arms are pinned. All right, and it doesn't look like I have much to use. I can try
29:55to use my
29:56knee, but if Rick pushes down, it controls my height zone. I can't use my knee either. If he lifts
30:01up,
30:02it controls my height zone. All right, so what I have to do, relax, is that as he grabs is
30:08react to the
30:09situation as it happens. Now, I can use two thumbs to the ribs and or the groin area. I can
30:16knee,
30:16pin the arm, kick with the side of my foot and elbow. And what I want to add on from
30:22there is
30:23optional. Now, watch it from this angle over here that when I was grabbed, I used my thumbs. Now, I
30:32braced my thumb against my fist so that it has what's called backup mass. That supports the thumb.
30:37That's a new word for you. Now, as I step back, I arch my back, go into a right forward
30:43bow as I make
30:44my strikes. I trap this arm. And the reason for trapping this arm, because if I just go ahead
30:50and knee Rick, where's that arm going to go? Right up in my face. Because we learn that in the
30:56kicking technique, that if we block improperly, it becomes a guide to your own defeat.
31:01So what I use is a check. This check can break, sprain, or just lock the arm in position. Now,
31:08from this angle over here, if you watch what happens, pin me, I break the grab.
31:16I don't want the left hand coming in my face. So as I torque this arm, it cancels the width
31:21as well.
31:22This torque takes that left side of his body and torques it away from me just by applying pressure
31:28here on the elbow. All right, straighten up just a little bit so they can see that angle. That's it.
31:34All right, now the knee is open. I don't have to worry so much about that left arm. I make
31:39my kick
31:40again to keep that left arm away from me and then apply my elbow. And that's the technique that I'd
31:46like you to learn for a front bear hug arms pin. Now, let's go back to a rear bear hug.
31:53Here my arms are pinned. Let's say that I choose to not hammer the groin, but to pin his hand
32:00to keep
32:00it checked and scrape and stomp. Okay, now, when I scrape and stomp, that's no more than an exaggerated
32:08step. So I pin the hands. I shift my weight, stomp his foot. What can I apply from here? Well,
32:15there's my buckle again. And the buckle sends him right into the elbow. Now, if you remember back in
32:21one of my previous tapes, we applied a technique for a grab. That's where my lapel was being grabbed.
32:27I pinned. I stepped away from the punch. I used this as a fulcrum. My pin became the fulcrum.
32:34And I did what? But I snapped the elbow. All right, that was a lever against that joint.
32:39Keep that in mind, because now we're going to do a rear choke. Now, in a rear choke,
32:45there's a number of things that can happen. He can choke and hold you stationary. He can shove
32:49you forward as he chokes. He can pull you backward as he chokes. All right, these things have to be
32:54considered. If he chokes and holds me stationary, or if he shoves me forward a little bit, I can still
33:01step off to my horse to maintain my balance. What I want you to do is I want you to
33:07reach up,
33:08grab his hands, and grab his thumbs. If you look at this from this angle, my hand comes up,
33:15and you see how my little finger is over his thumb here. And what I'm going to do is pull
33:19his arms out
33:19away from me by anchoring my elbows, which gives me more leverage than he has back there. Don't pull
33:25straight out, but pull straight down. And you pull those two fast. You're going to stab his thumbs
33:30right against your neck. Your neck will act as a fulcrum, just like we had at this point.
33:37So when I'm choked from behind, this is my fulcrum. My neck is my fulcrum. I pull against it.
33:42I break the thumbs. I keep twisting the arms out until the elbows get over my shoulders. And you guessed
33:47it.
33:47Now my shoulders become a fulcrum. So in one motion, we're causing two injuries.
33:53We're stepping off, maintaining our balance, and causing thumb break, elbow break. And we're
34:01canceling Rick's height zone, not by going down at this point, but by going up. But if you analyze
34:07this a little bit further, when I anchor, and I pull down with my hands, and I pull Rick down,
34:13it kills his height zone. The minute I break the elbows, it raises it up. It allows me to come
34:18back
34:18with my elbow strike, cross his arms, the left over the right. This becomes a fulcrum. And they
34:27fulcrum against each other is basically what happens. And if you look at this angle,
34:31as I cross the left over the right, I'm going to break his left arm against his right arm.
34:36I hold this in place. That's no more in a fulcrum. And I've got the proper angle to hold it
34:42at. And so
34:42I break against that arm. If I keep breaking, he's just going to flip over. Keep flipping over and
34:48away from me. All right, now watch the technique again.
34:53I'm going to do it at this angle, so it'll help you see what happens.
34:57Break the thumbs. Anchor his feet by pulling down. If he starts to kick, pull up. That'll cancel any
35:07kicking back there. Slip the elbow in. Break the left arm against the right arm. If you want to add
35:14a kick, whatever you want after that, it's up to you. It's optional. But we're learning important
35:21things. And when you're doing your techniques, you've got to remember his height zone. You just
35:26can't blatantly just grab and pull the arms off. Because if you do that type of thing without really
35:31pulling down, if he just pulls out, what's going to stop me from doing this? What's going to stop this
35:36type of thing? A sweep. Hands going into his face. But if he anchors and pulls down on a 45
35:43degree
35:43angle, my weight's on my feet. And I can't kick at that point. Not at that point, especially with my
35:49elbows being break. But the moment I start to kick, he just breaks the elbows. That's it. And so forth.
35:55Remember that. That's very important. Extremely important. Now, what about a front choke?
36:02Front choke. Front choke. I'll show you the easiest, two easiest ways to deal with a front choke. Number
36:08one, without causing injury. But I'm showing you this not so much as a technique, but as a principle
36:14that you can learn. Okay, Rick, choke me as hard as you can. Hard as you can. Squeeze. Squeeze, squeeze,
36:19squeeze. It won't work. Because the moment you straighten out his arms, he loses leverage up here.
36:24He has to have his elbows bent to apply pressure. Nobody's going to reach out and choke you with his
36:30arms
36:30straight anyway. He has to keep him bent to get leverage. All right, if that's the case,
36:35then if his elbows are bent, I can check his hands and pull down, take my index finger,
36:42back it up with my middle finger, and that little hole or pocket that's right under your Adam's apple,
36:47go to a forward ball and drive it in. And you look at it at an angle over here. I
36:53think you can see it a
36:53little better with his arms down. Rick, if you'll face that way, it's this pocket right in here.
36:58And all you have to do is push in and down. You'll want to let go real fast. There are
37:04other ways.
37:05You can simultaneously pin the hands and heel palm right on the side of the head. Okay, that thumb can
37:13go in the eye. That could have just as easily been a punch or a hammer fist. I prefer a
37:18heel palm at this
37:19angle. I could simultaneously check heel palm and kick. Kick his right leg and then do what I have to
37:29use to fit the situation. All right, now there are chokes that have a tendency that when you choke from
37:37behind, a guy definitely chokes and leans on you. All right, so what we want to do on that
37:43in a situation where he chokes and leans on me is I'm going to go with it, get my check
37:48up there
37:50and shoot. What's this called? An outward elbow. And it's a diagonal outward elbow. It's going up at
37:55that angle. And I'm going to come back and I'm going to poke to the eye. And what stance am
37:59I in but
37:59a right forward bow. Now watch again. Rather than trying to resist his push, I check and go with the
38:07motion. Go to a forward bow, poke him in the eye and whatever I need from there where we've learned
38:13enough that we can apply from that point. Now if you're being choked and you feel immediate pressure
38:21this way, well obviously you can't apply any of either of those techniques. So then you're going to
38:25have to apply something a little different. Rick, would you pull me from behind? Now as he pulls,
38:32I'm going to step back and go with the motion. What's this called? It's no more than a left
38:37vertical outward block. So as he pulls, I drop back. Go ahead and pull me and choke. Same time.
38:45I drop back into a left reverse bow, pivot to a left neutral bow, and I can apply front thrust
38:52punch,
38:52elbow. I can check, apply another elbow, whatever. The options are endless again. But you've got to
39:00experience with the different methods of being choked. Now there's been a lot of controversy
39:08throughout the last year as a newspaper about officers on the police force using certain
39:11types of choke holds that cause death. And you've got to understand this, that a certain,
39:17certain types of choke holds will put you out in eight to 11 seconds. You'll be unconscious in that
39:22time and held much longer than that. Death will occur obviously. But the point of it is,
39:26is that the moment that you feel the hands, a forearm, anything coming around your throat,
39:34you've got to react. You can't be after the fact type of reaction. It doesn't work.
39:40The moment that this is called, some people call it a forearm choke. It's called a half carotid choke.
39:48The controversial choke was a carotid, double carotid choke like this. The names really aren't
39:54that important. But what's important is that as I feel that forearm come around, two things I have to
40:02do to save my life is not just hit him. I've got to keep my breathing constant. That's rule. That
40:08is a rule.
40:09One of the rare rules of Kempo. But you've got to keep your breathing constant. The moment you feel this,
40:15tuck your chin in and turn it in the same direction that you're being choked. The worst that could happen
40:20is you'll feel extreme pressure on your jaw, on your neck. But if you don't and you're being choked
40:27and your esophagus starts to collapse, then no strike in the world is going to help you because you
40:32won't be conscious to apply it. The moment you feel it comes around, also take your right hand
40:39and anchor it over. When your elbow is lower than the arm, you have greater leverage. Go ahead,
40:44start choking. Go ahead, choke. Choke. And he's trying hard, believe me. The leverage is there. Now,
40:51if I had my elbow up choke, I don't have the leverage to hold him back. I anchor my elbow,
40:56I create the leverage. So as that arm comes over, I turn my head in, tuck it in.
41:01Now, if I want to apply an elbow, a hammer fist, back knuckle technique, so forth,
41:08it's open and it's available. Okay, now basically all I did in that technique was turn my chin,
41:14put my check in and tuck my chin in, step over to my left heel horse and use what? Left
41:20back elbow,
41:22left back hammer fist. Check the knee. What stance am I in? Close kneel. I put enough pressure so it
41:28keeps that side of his body away. Back knuckle to the ribs, hammer to the groin and kidney behind him,
41:34hook underneath the nose to bring him back and heel palm. Now, that's a lot of rigmarole,
41:40but what it teaches you, it teaches you so many moves that you can use and they don't have to
41:45be
41:45used in that order. That means that when I'm grabbed, I could hammer here. I could come up with
41:51the elbow. I could come around and use this. Come back up with the elbow at this angle. I could
41:57hit
41:57this way. I could leave out that nose up there. It depends on the situation.
42:04In conclusion, I hope you enjoyed this tape and became more abreast of what concepts and principles
42:10are involved in punches, blocks, kicks, chokes, locks, and holds. And in future tapes,
42:17we're going to be fighting more than one person, two men, three men, four men, and so forth.
42:22And in these mass attack tapes, it's imperative that you learn the concepts and principles that
42:28were employed here. Now, there is no one tape that is more important than the other. And I sprinkled
42:34concepts and principles throughout each tape. I'll look forward to seeing you in the next series.