How To Punch In A Street Fight For Self Defense

How to punch! It's the first self defense technique everyone learns, right? Perhaps you learned it from school yard fights. Maybe your father taught you how to punch when you were growing up. Or maybe it was the first martial arts move you learned in the dojo. No matter where or when you learned it, the punch is the most common method taught anybody for self defense. But there's a problem here...

Is A Punch Worthless In A Real Street Fight?

Most punches in a real fight are instinctively thrown at your attacker's head. We know subconsciously that this is our best chance for a knockout. However, your opponent's head holds his brain which is well protected by a very hard skull and an instinctive response when it feels it's in danger. You see, when your attacker recognizes that a punch is coming, he will naturally tuck his head and his chin to protect his throat and his eyes as well as present more of his bony skull to your fragile knuckles. When it comes to targets, the skull is about as "bulletproof" as any part of the body gets.

The Real Danger Of Punching In A Real Street Fight

When you go for a traditional punch to the head when fighting, chances are very good that you're going to hit the skull. When the knuckles of your clenched fist strike a hard surface like the skull in a street fight, they're very likely to break. With broken knuckles, you're now less able to protect yourself because your follow-up blows will lack power coming from your injured hand. However, you're losing more than just the ability to punch hard if you injure your knuckles.

Weapons And Broken Knuckles Don't Mix In A Real Street Fight

Maybe you carry a gun or a knife as a self defense weapon. Maybe your attacker is and you're able to disarm his weapon and use it to protect yourself. If you damage the knuckles of your hand from punching however, you may not be able to wield either a gun or a knife as effectively, if at all, with a crippled hand. You can't open a folding knife or hold it firmly because your hand is broken. You can't aim a gun or pull the trigger when you smashed your knuckles punching the other guy in the skull. What could have been a great self defense weapon has now been rendered useless!

Three Self Defense Techniques Better Than Punching

While there are many strikes that can be used for self defense, the three that are better choices in a street fight are the palm heel, the hammer fist, and the edge of hand blow. All three pack more power than a traditional punch and are very easy to master for self defense. But just as importantly, you can strike with any of these methods with much less danger of injuring yourself than if you used a punch.

Self Defense Against Multiple Attackers When Pinned Against A Wall

One of the absolute worst-case scenarios in a street fight self defense scenario is to find yourself facing multiple attackers while you're pinned against a wall. Cornered like this, most people would simply cover up and pray for mercy in the hopes of not getting beaten to death. I mean, what self defense techniques could you possibly pull out to escape such a hopeless situation in a real fight, right? Well fortunately, defending against multiple attackers who've pinned you isn't as hopeless a scenario as you might think.

Street Fight Physics How To Defend Against Multiple Attackers When Pinned Against A Wall

Ok, you're jacked up against a wall by several attackers with nowhere to go. No matter how much you can bench press, the force of the other fighters is too much for you to push against in order to escape. But while your brain is thinking "push", simple street fight physics dictates that the path of least resistance is your best technique for self defense. You see, while you may not be able to push multiple attackers forward, your body does have mobility from side to side. In fact, the more your attackers push forward, the more lateral movement you have as their force actually provides you with additional sideways mobility.

The Sneaky Street Fight Self Defense Technique To Crumple Multiple Attackers Like Magic

It doesn't matter if you have two fighters or thirty-five fighters pinning you against a wall, the self defense technique I'm about to describe to you will work almost like magic. But you have to act fast because you want to avoid getting punched as much as possible. Your first move is to choose just one single person among the multiple attackers you're facing, preferably the person closest to you, but it really doesn't matter as long as he's in the close quarters combat zone. Now, reach for that person and choose any close target where you can gain leverage. My favorite is his chin because when it comes to street fighting, if you can control his head, the rest of his body will follow. However, any close leveraging target, such as the inside or outside of his elbow, will work.

Now, with one hand, reach up and quickly push your target sideways as he's pushing in toward you. Having your back against a wall will actually give you something to push off of to gain more stability and power. At the same time as you're pushing, shift your body in the opposite direction, moving laterally along the wall.

How This Street Fighting Technique Defeats Multiple Attackers So Fast...

Ok, this is where this amazing street fighting move does its magic. Because the force of the multiple attackers are pushing in toward you, as your body shifts out of their way, their momentum remains moving forward. As you push one of the attackers sideways and move along the wall, you'll find that all of the fighters instantly implode on one another, likely falling to the ground in a crumpled mess while you make your escape through the opening you just created.

Sound like a street fighting fairytale to you? Well you don't have to believe me that this multiple attacker move works. Get five, ten, or twenty of your friends to pin you against a wall as hard as they can and prove it to yourself by using this simple self defense technique.

Street Fighting: How To Knock Someone Out In A Ground Fight

When you think about how to knock someone out with one punch, you probably don't envision being able to strike someone with that much force when you're locked up in a ground fight, right? I mean, if you're forced to use self defense, most of the knockout blows you're used to seeing are from boxing, mixed martial arts, or other self defense techniques from fighting systems where you're standing up and able to throw a powerful punch. In a ground fight, you don't have that same ability, especially if you're on your back, because you can't put a lot of power into your punches. Also, many of the best targets to knock someone out with one punch aren't easy to reach when you're flat on your back with a fighter on top of you. But it's still possible to get a one-punch knockout.

How To Knock Someone Out In A Ground Fight

When we look at how to knock someone out in a fight that takes place on the ground, you must first recognize that all of the best knock-out targets are from the neck up on your opponent. If he's mounted you where you're flat on your back, you're in a dangerous position because he can punch away at you with a lot of power, but you have a harder time reaching your own knockout targets. What you've got to do when ground fighting then, is drag those targets back into reach. You can do this by first reaching up to grab his shirt or his clavicles and essentially "climb" your way up his body which will actually pull him down toward you to bring your knockout targets closer. In fact, there's one specific point you'll have access to from this position...and it's your secret spot for achieving a knockout!

The Secret Target That's Wide Open For A One Punch Knockout In A Ground Fight

What I'm about to share with you is a little known target on the human body that's typically wide open on your attacker in a ground fight. It's a pressure point located on the back of the head, roughly at the hairline, halfway between the ear and the spine. This point is located on either side of the spine so it actually gives you two targets to knock someone out. With one punch, you can cause major trauma and if hit too hard, it could actually kill someone so be very careful that you're using this technique only in self defense. Here's how to use this self defense technique to your advantage...

How To Strike This Secret Knockout Target During A Ground Fight

From the worst-case ground fighting position where someone has you on your back, reach up with one arm (it doesn't matter which side) up along the center of his body. Your aim is to get your arm over his shoulder and arm on that same side and control that arm with yours and gain access to the back of your attacker's head as he's pulled down close to you. From here, you can get a clear shot at the pressure point target. What most people do from this position is to simply start pounding on the attacker's back which will have no effect in a real street fight because the back is full of muscle. If he's pounding you from above in a ground fight, you don't have time to waste on ineffective self defense techniques like punches to the back. So with your arm over his shoulder, slam the palm of your hand hard into the pressure point target on the back of his head. When he goes limp, simply roll him off you. That is how to knock someone out with one punch, even in a ground attack in a real street fight.