Module 1 - Escape How to Increase the Effect of your Strikes Strikes are made more effective in many ways: ⚫ Brace the Target - This can be done by the person being against a wall or floor or even brace the Target yourself by holding the person or limb in place whilst striking. • Strike through the Target - Don't aim just at the Target but about 6 inches past it. Time on Target - Don't pull your strikes back too quickly. Your strike is kept in contact for a count this helps create a maximum transfer of Energy. Striking with a larger surface also gives a better transfer of energy. ⚫ Over loading - Strike several times to the same target. ⚫ Shouting - Helps you focus on your energy into your Strike. Shouting alone serves many purposes: Startle the Attacker. • Attract Attention of passers by. • Create witnesses to the Attack. Tenses your abdominal region. ⚫ Helps you focus on your strikes. As a general rule strike with hard to soft and soft to hard - For example: Elbows to Ribs ⚫ Knee to Femoral • Knee to groin • Head to Nose Palms to head Avoid punching to the head if possible. It's so easy to break knuckles and fingers as the head is so hard. There is also the risk of someone transmitting nasty infections or even HIV or hepatitis via puncture wounds from the teeth to the knuckles. You can hit just has hard with the palm of your hand with much less risk of injury to yourself. Further Targeting and Striking When working with these sensitive areas, pressure points or motor nerve points, full on strikes would cause lasting damage and even 5% strikes can have an effect on people, sometimes there is even a delay before the reaction. Due to this, we are very careful. Striking these areas can have the effect of shutting down that limb and can also cause unconsciousness. Be warned that strikes to the Throat could cause permanent damage to the throat and even result in death so this must be treated very cautiously in Training and only used in a true Self Defense situation. The same caution is necessary with strikes to the eyes, you must treat this with total caution in training and only use firm strikes in a real Self Defense situation. WWW.FIGHTWIZE.COM