This video is a follow-up to the Blogpost from this past Sunday. Now I'm not trying to turn this place into the AARP Self Defense Blog. The thing is that the most common victims of violent crime are women, really young people (ie: kids), and seniors. Usually they are less physically able to defend themselves. While using awareness and mindset should always be your primary line of defense form criminal assault, there are times when you will be caught unawares and a physical response will be called for.
Most Self Defense classes are geared towards adult males in their 20's, 30's, and to a degree in their 40's There are of course those dedicated holdouts in their 50's and 60's. But the reality is that most self defense training is oriented towards the young and still relatively physically fit.
The substance of this post however is for those either in late middle age or already into their senior years.
Now to be clear, the biggest problem with most Self Defense training these days is, quite bluntly, that most schools over-complicate their training with a laundry list of techniques. The reality is that most criminal assaults are simple violent attacks, preceded by an ambush. Having a laundry list of techniques to mentally go through after someone has gotten in your face and laid their hands on you is pretty much a recipe for "paralysis by analysis".
You need a fast simple response. One that in fact does not need to lay your attacker out on the ground unconscious. If you can do it, great. If not, if you can at least disorient or hurt him enough to stop his immediate attack, then you need to leave the scene and not hang around while he recovers.
As I said above, this video is from the same source as the one about defending yourself while seated. And as with that video, the simple two strike combination will work for anybody willing to train it. And while it looks too simple to work, the eye jab followed by a kick or knee to the testicles was taught to Allied Commando group in WW2 called the Devils Brigade by a man named Dermot 'Pat' O'Neill. His style of unarmed defense had the same 2 part strike combination that was referred to as "Poke and Kick" Karate.
For those of you who may have never heard of O'Neill, the link below will give you a brief history of his Career.
So, watch the video above and decide for yourself whether the simple technique is something that should only be done by Senior Citizens.
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