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Targets and Techniques

Rising Knee Kick
The rising knee kick could be considered the ultimate uppercut. When it is
combined with seizing and pulling down your assailant’s head, thereby unbalancing
and setting them up, it is devastating. (Fig. 41)
To throw the rising knee kick, raise your knee rapidly upwards and strike the
target, thrusting your hip behind the action to increase its power.
Many of the targets for the rising knee kick are on the centre line of the body.
Further, because the head can be seized and drawn down (see figure 41) it can
also be considered a viable target.
The jumping version of the rising knee kick is a very strong ring technique,
but its use in the street is too big a gamble. It is never a good idea to have both feet
off the ground, because landing makes you extremely vulnerable to having your
feet kicked from under you.
Lastly, the very nature of the rising knee kick makes it an efficient hold-breaker.
The main targets on the front of the head and body are the facial area, chin,
sternum, solar plexus, liver, floating ribs, lower abdomen and groin.
The main targets on the rear of the body are between the shoulder blades, the
small of the back and the coccyx.

Fig 41
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