Stun and Run

A year ago, before my black tip test in Taekwondo, my dad was talking to me about the sign of the cross timing drill. The drill was designed to test a constant flow of motion. What would happen is the testers would pick up four boards, and the tested was in the middle.  They had to break 4 boards with a constant flow of motion.

However in a self defense situation it doesn’t work all that well. If I go for goon number one, goon three or goon four will strike me, when I go for goon two. So the discussion was about what you’d do in self defense. Grab the smallest or closest person and throw them into the others. This stuns them giving you time to run off.

If someone grabs your wrist, there’s a lot of uncomfortable nerves on their arm you just have to strike that and run off. The same works with lapel grabs.  The reason this works so well, is that when you hit them they sort of panic they didn’t expect you break free. The whole concept is stunning a nerve or causing enough pain so that you can run away while there distracted.