THE IRREPRESSIBLE WEB STRIKE

 

HEY, HAMMER FANS, here’s the counterstrike I recommend to anyone – be he/she elderly, a man, boy, woman or girl – facing a high-risk close quarter attack.  The Web Strike is a Deadly Force Counterstrike, meaning, if delivered successfully – and, frankly, I don’t know how it could not be delivered, not only successfully, but with devastating power, the results of the strike could be serious injury or possibly death to the attacker.

 

The Web Strike has so many positive attributes that it’s a wonder more people don’t know about it. 

 

• It is based on Gross Motor Skills, which work best under high stress situations.  In a close quarter, surprise attack, the potential victim’s heart rate will accelerate to well over 200 BPM.
• Gross Motor Skills are simple, doable for the least athletic and strong student in any of my Self Defense classes.
• The Web Strike requires no significant power.  The target is the Adam’s Apple, or the Throat.  A mere 6 pounds of pressure delivered to the throat will cause shock, pain, temporary loss of breath and a Startle Response.  The Bad Guy will reflexively reach for his throat, even if the pain is minor.  It is a natural, instinctive response.  And, of course, by grabbing for his throat, the Bad Guy opens up all his Secondary and Primary Targets (covered in a previous post).  And, as in all high-risk self defense scenarios, the putative victim must follow-up immediately and often with strikes to those open targets.  Maybe it needs not be said, but it is a deadly force struggle.  If you stick around and allow the Bad Guy a chance to recover, the Bad Guy will attack again, and, this time, it will be anything but pretty.  Put him away.  Please.  Or, at the very least, once the attacker grabs his throat, get the hell out of Dodge!
• But, if the Web Strike is driven into the throat with full power and with the violence such a life or death counterstrike calls for, the Bad Guy will immediately end his attack.  And I mean now!
• The Web Strike should be delivered using the element of surprise.  It also should be “exploded” up through the Blind Spot that resides on every Bad Guy extending from his/her solar plexus to just below his nose.

 

Here is how to use this great strike.  The Bad Guy has boldly strutted into your intimate zone (PSZ) and has latched onto you.  He pulls you in even closer, predictably expected you – like 9 out of 10 victims – to freeze on his First Touch.  Instead, place your hand, palm down, your fingers pointed toward your right and your thumb straight up.  When you look at your hand it forms an “L.”  Now, stretch out those fingers and extend your thumb.  Notice how the web between your thumb and index finger grows taut?

 

All you have to do is fire that hard web straight up, sliding along the chest until it explodes into the throat.  If you were a defensive back in football, you would be performing what we call a Clothesline Technique.

 

Ever watch a Clothesline in football?  Did you notice how the runner always drops like AIG stock when hit?

 

That’s why it’s illegal in football.  But, this aint football.  This is life or death.

 

Stay Safe.

Hammer

 

 

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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Harry A Widger
Filed under: Administrators, College, Date Rape, Fighting, High School, K-6, Parents, People Involved, Predators, School Grade Level, School Safety Issues, Students, Violence