Firstly, and this is true for all these entries, if you’re
on the street and a stranger attempts to mug you, or worse, he most likely
doesn’t know any particular fighting style, other than “swing for the fences
and keep moving forward.”
There are quite a few
offshoots of kickboxing, the most famous of which is Muay Thai, which roughly
translates to “art of the eight limbs.”
Kickboxing for
self-defense concentrates on its version of punches, knees, and kicks:
fast-paced, distracting, and aimed at all available openings. If the attacker
has a knife or gun, and is within arm’s reach, he will use the weapon. The
defender is thus armed with more weapons, hands, feet, knees, elbows, head.
Simply walk toward the
attacker (who has any weapon but a gun), and throw a front kick straight up
a gainst his chin as hard as possible. Kickboxing thrives on this sort of move,
and teaches the practitioner to execute it with such extreme speed, faster than
the attacker can react, that it virtually rules out the risk of “fancy kicks.”
Do it correctly and it will almost always break his jaw, crush his larynx,
shatter his teeth, force him to bite off his tongue, etc. He will not fight
after this. This sort of kick is well trained to the point that it can, in fact,
be delivered efficiently, that is, quickly and powerfully, without being
telegraphed.
Alternatively, step to
the side, grab the attackers weapon arm, and sling your forehead into the his
nose. This will not hurt you nearly as much as you think. The attacker’s nose,
on the other hand, will shatter like a firecracker.
Well trained kickboxers
practice something called “combat qi”,which is the physical conditioning of any
part of the body through repeated damage, until it no longer sends sufficient
pain signals to the brain to bother the person. Kickboxers will roll a baseball
bat handle up and down the shin firmly enough to cause aching, for about an
hour a day for 2 years. The tibia is repeatedly damaged and rebuilds itself
stronger and thicker. Eventually, the kickboxer can kick the baseball bat in
half with his or her shin, and not feel pain.
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