Street Fighting, Basic Self-Defense: Lesson 1

Street fighting is hand-to-hand combat with no rules. Some people call this street brawling; they say the more experience you get the better you become. Read the following to learn the basics of fighting. Street brawling occurs everywhere including, the school, homes, in parking lots and many other places. Please use this for only self-defense from people such as bullies and criminals.

1. You must first know weak points of the human body (the face, temple, kidney, solar plexus, the joints, etc). Being hit in these areas can cause you to get knocked out with one blow.
2. Now you must learn your strong body parts. The strong body parts are your, forearm, elbow, and the knee. You must recognize that your forearm is your shield, your elbow is for countering punches, and your knee is for countering kicks but it is best to dodge kicks rather than blocking them.
3. Your fighting stance is very important. The basic fighting stance is fighting on a angle, with one arm in front of the other and one leg in front of the other. Fighting on your side is the basic fighting stance for brawling and martial arts.
4. Now you must learn your human weapons, the fist, elbow, the entire arm, your knee, the bottom of your foot and the back of your foot (sometimes the tip of your foot if you have hard shoes) and your forehead.
5. The best offense is the least amount of hits with the most effective hits. If you wildly strike your opponent you will grow tired and your fists, elbows and other parts of your body will become hurt. You are basically hurting yourself. The best way to beat your opponent is to get him or her to lose balance.
6. To make your opponent lose balance you must wait for the perfect time. First learn your jabbing fist and your strong fist. This changes if you are a left handed or right handed. Usually when you are right handed, your right hand will be your strong fist and it will be the other way around if you are a lefty. You will repeatedly use your jabbing fist until you get a perfect time to strike your opponent with your stronger fist. You should not use your strong fist too much because it will cause you to lose balance if they dodge it and it will leave you with too many openings. Yes, you must dodge your opponent’s strong fist to get a good opening for you to lay the knock out punch. If your opponent’s right hand is the strong fist move to right side of the strong fist when you dodge it and do the opposite if he is a lefty.