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Attacking: Core Striking These strikes were given names. I called them:

Obviously from the defensive position I had RHINO
to develop some counter striking techniques SHOCKWAVE
that were just as defensive but also extremely BOOSTED BLOCK
effective. PRINCE CHARMING
SLEDGEHAMMER
This lead to me developing CORE STRIKING. AXE
These core strikes could all be launched from CONFUSED CRAB
The Fortress as well as being stand-alone stri-
kes or incorporated into other Martial Arts. None of these strikes use the knuckles of the
fist. I have discarded punches as I found 5
The idea being that under stress you could primary reasons that these strikes could have
miss the target or you could be unaware how a detrimental affect in defending oneself.
many attackers there are but you could be There maybe more reasons but I felt 5 rea-
safe as you could be whilst fighting back. sons gave me enough cause to drop punches
from what I teach. Even though other Self De-
fence systems still include them.

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