This one is going to be a very loose theory on protecting yourself if someone decides to hit you. You know, that school yard scuffle where a verbal conflict escalated because neither party had enough sense to avoid and/or deescalate the conflict.
In some of these McSelf-defense Places they will heap on the sales pitch that their techniques will save your ass in only two weeks of training yet as you study violence and self defense, see links to the right please, you find that there are no one or even two-three techniques that will save your ass BUT there are concepts and application of same that in school yard scuffles will save you from the bent nose syndrome.
Because I am not an expert on this the following are provided ONLY to get you to do some research that looks for "concepts" that can achieve this goal.
1st Concept: have a goal or focus before you encounter any school yard scuffles. I hope you actually know how to avoid them or deescalate them but if you guys insist on coming to blows make sure you worked out and practiced-practiced-practiced those concepts that will allow you to avoid nose damage.
2nd Concept: Move! Don't just move back although when a fist is flying instincts from mother nature will want you to pull back away from the danger. When I say move practice-practice-practice having a fist come toward you then adjust that instinct a bit and move back and to one side or the other. Look at a clock and facing your partner, testing/practicing, as noon so you move to either 8 or 4 o'clock. There is more to this type of practice and you need to find it and study it completely and then practice-practice-practice (see bibliography if you can't get google to cough it up). The books author calls this slipping I believe ...
3rd Concept: As you move you can learn to parry, block or deflect the incoming fist. This too requires more than what I am posing here yet my goal here is to provide guidance in further studies and what I mean by concepts vs. techniques.
4th Concept: Create space and time. If you can learn to move and then parry-block-deflect you can use these to create a time and space avenue of leaving the area and get to a safe place. Example is to step into the advancing opponent while stepping to eleven or one o'clock, deflect, turn-twist following his momentum and then shove hard at the shoulder with left hand while right deflecting hand pushes the elbow or upper arm so the top goes much faster than legs and he falls allowing gravity to do its thing thank you very much Mr. MacYoung :-) Now, run like hell and get the hell out of dodge. The guy if he does get up after the fall will be wondering what happened and where the hell did you go.
Get my drift? Don't let yourself get caught up in a prideful mental state where you "have to do it manly way," run away. By not losing, by not allowing yourself to get hit, you didn't lose and he didn't win. Great!
Bibliography:
MacYoung, Marc. "A Professional's Guide to Ending Violence Quickly: How Bouncers, Bodyguards, and Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations." Paladin Press. Boulder, Colorado. 1996.
p.s. notice how I kinda borrowed some of his euphemisms only a bit toned down hehehehee
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