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One-to-One – Unarmed

Right Hook: Medium Range
Situation Three: Your assailant
throws a right hook at your head.
1) Slip the punch to the left. (Fig. 116)
2) Throw a right cross to his solar
plexus or liver. (Fig. 117)
3) Throw a roundhouse kick to his
neck using your shin.* (Fig. 118)

*High kicks in self-defence situations
are controversial. (See Chapter Two)
The reasons that a high kick has been
included here are:
1) The assailant has been weakened by
a punch to the solar plexus.
Fig 116 2) An angular kick thrown from both
outside and underneath the arm is
hard for the assailant to read.
3) The roundhouse shin kick to the
neck is a real man-stopper. This
kick should be worked on the big
bag religiously.

None of these reasons should distract
you from the previous warnings that
head kicks carry a high degree of risk.
You should also note that a right
hook is the most natural and powerful
blow that an untrained assailant can
throw. Usually it is easy to read, but do
Fig 117 not underestimate its power and speed.

Fig 118 81