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One-to-One – Unarmed

Defences
Left Hook: Close Range
Situation One: Your assailant throws a left hook at your head.

1) Duck the attack and weave to the outside. (Fig. 109)
2) As you rise, drive a rising left knee into his lower abdomen.* (Fig. 110)
3) Throw a hard right hook into his kidney. (Fig. 111)
4) Throw a left roundhouse elbow to his face. (Fig. 112)

*The act of ducking the left hook creates ‘stored energy’ in your bent legs, which
dramatically increases the power of the rising knee strike. Practise bending and
rising into the knee strike on a big bag until you are able to deliver real power.

Fig 111 Fig 112

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