SEVEN Key Hand Strikes in Self Defense

There are no hand wraps in the streets. In this video, I want to share what I believe to be are the seven most effective strikes for self defense using bare hands. #selfdefense #selfdefensetraining #streetdefense

[@brianreilly5103]

I've seen some instructors not correct their students when they strike the eyes using extended fingers. Thank you for showing that your fingers need to be slightly curled or your be the one being hurt.

[@SirPraiseSun]

the straight palm strike to the face is actually underrated and a good stun, and you wont break u knuckles

[@tatumergo3931]

@@SirPraiseSun. I prefer rather hitting on the side or side-tip of the jaw, but that requires a bit of fitness and physical development. For the technique method is a bit complicated.

[@tatumergo3931]

The method by which you do an eye poke can be varied. You could just use the thumbs instead. You could also create a diversion first by attempting a kick to the groins!

[@thelightstillshines2476]

Great self-defense tips thanks👍

[@artawhirler]

Excellent video as always! Your first point was very important, and it's something I first learned from someone else long ago - that it's not enough to simply cause pain to your attacker, because some people don't care about pain. I was taught that you have to think of your attacker's body as a machine, and what you need to do, as quickly as possible, is to inflict catastrophic damage on that machine, to the point where it's no longer capable of functioning as a threat. (Obviously, of course, you would only do this if you were in very serious danger.)

[@hilltopper600]

great self defense advice

[@MikiBlue]

That was simple and to the point. I like your videos

[@411Outdoors]

Thank you kindly!

[@jorgeavila4540]

Awesome point, especially for the opposite sex.I'm not saying thereweak.But sometimes they don't know how to react good techniques.If you have others please let us know.

[@marzaan5935]

Adrenaline is a hell of a drug

[@marzaan5935]

@@BKD-Idaho the will to protect is always stronger right bruh

[@kipkaercher3257]

I found this video interesting not only for the different types of strikes, but also for showing the target areas on the body to strike. Could you please do a follow up showing more target areas to strike including those on the extremities and when targeting an extremity would be appropriate? Thanks!

[@plasticoflamingo2952]

If you intend to use any of these, you should get some face to face training. Doing any of these strikes can be fatal to your opponent, if you don't do them in the correct way to merely cause pain. These are moves taught to the military, and three-letter agency folks.

[@user-je7kh2lk3b]

Realistic and explained well.

[@kenbrown1847]

Good stuff keep it simple but mix it with some low kicks

[@effeojnedib7208]

Many people tend to use the backfist as a "pop", and follow up. Our instructor always said to make it count- and that's a $6K nose job. Personally, I'd use a ridge hand instead of a slap. Almost the same motion, plus I practice it every morning. lol I use to not really respect the ridge hand strike very much, until I fought a dude who knew how to use it. And I paid. lol

[@davidtownsend1792]

Excellent. Love the let the techniques flow into each other advice, I have used the solar plexus punch, a short hook whipping the hips and shoulders into it, this film and advice is first class, get that flow flowing and you dont need much else , thankyou,

[@411Outdoors]

Thank you!

[@davidtownsend1792]

@@411Outdoors What are your views on blocking, ? do you have standard blocks, or nutralise by attacking, ?

[@411Outdoors]

@@davidtownsend1792 in the next couple of weeks I’m going to release a video on how to block punches in a street bike using one of my training buddies

[@davidtownsend1792]

@@411Outdoors Thats great really glad Ive found your site, many thanks

[@lsporter88]

I'm pretty sure you didn't miss anything important. These strikes are very practical and I agree with everything in this video. Good Stuff.😎👍🏾

[@silversleuth007]

Real good video. Practice and training would be easy and free. Instincts can last a long time. It's been well over 20 years since my last self-defensive incident, and that was 20 years after my self-defense training. Brachial Stun. Maim and run! Thank you for sharing.

[@Nathan.44-40]

Great techniques & Demo ! Thanks 411 💪🇺🇸

[@jeffyoung60]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this man knows how to hurt someone, and badly. He even looks the dangerous part. Yet it becomes obvious that he is not the type of dude to lash out simply out of emotion. He's too smart and experienced for that. He's also comes across with very IMPORTANT legal advice. He alludes to different men responding in different ways to punches and strikes to the face and head. He could have elaborated. Some guys, you hit them in the face and they stand there glaring at you ready to beat you down. Other guys, one blow to the head even a wild hook or haymaker and they go down for the count. Over the past ten years in Los Angeles and Orange County, two men died in street brawls after receiving just one punch to the head. In both cases the men were in street brawls and struck by untrained men. Each man went down unconscious after one punch and died three days later in the hospital, never having regained consciousness. Some of his hand blows are lethal, for example, strikes to the throat. if you have to use throat strikes, you better make sure the guy you hit is attacking you with a knife, a club, broken bottle, brick, any weapon that gives you legitimate legal reason to fear for your life. Some states allow you to add, and fear of serious bodily injury. Even socialist California allows for that. Now some martial arts masters, for example Jujutsu and Karate masters who have practiced their art for twenty years, know how to give strike such as a chop to the throat with just enough force to stop the attacker but not enough to crush the throat. This takes years and years of study and practice. Most of us don't invest that time so if you're going to use a lethal strike, be sure the law is on your side. He has a curious but still effective slap strike. This is not new. The slap strike is not a wild slap. It is a focused hand strike using a slightly cupped hand where the striking area is the outer edge of the cupped palm. Used correctly, it' blow the eardrum of an assailant or break his jaw, either one a knockout. The open palm slap strike is a frequent hand blow in Chinese Southern Mantis Kung Fu and was also used in traditional French Savate in its early years. In Napoleonic France, a law was passed that defined using the closed fist to hit was the same as using a weapon like a club. You'll go to jail. So open hand strikes and the elbow besides the kicks were frequently used. True self-defense is first of all, avoidance, then escape, possible de-escalation, and lastly enough violence to escape the attacker and live another day without going to prison.

[@tatumergo3931]

Most people often confuse self-defense with brawling in the streets or street fighting.

[@foooooob]

Great advices. Thanks a lot man!

[@seawench555]

Thanks that was really interesting, I've been wanting to learn how to strike or punch in the right areas for maximum effect. I'm a short female, strong but have never been shown how, so much appreciate ur no nonsense clear approach. 🇦🇺

[@411Outdoors]

Glad it was helpful!🙂

[@edsweeney6843]

Excellent video. Great advice. Id add elbow shots to the ribs/ solar plexus can be a fight stopperand i fl e cts massive pain.

[@randygroves1114]

Good advice, logical words

[@getrim2918]

Good instructional . Love the oblick kik myself. I use front hook kick when sparring when someone throws left or right and they lean in. Have also used it in street and thank God never paid price for it understand is not for everyone only people with experience. I think you should maby do instructional front crescent to body for street too. One of my favorites

[@stevendavies6209]

My late Sensei always showed us the palm strike to save one's knuckles.

[@tatumergo3931]

Your late sensei was on to something. It was always understood that the knuckles were for the soft spots in the body, and palm strikes to the bone areas. Ofcourse you could always become a beast and condition the hell out of your knuckles, like sensei Morio Higaona. But who wants to look like a Gorilla that has been dragging their knuckles on the ground!

[@holysoldier7485]

Sun Fist to the solar plexus! Remember that when making the strike, your energy or Chi must freely flow like electrified water (through) the opponent during the process. The ‘Intent’ to disrupt the opponent’s ability (spirit) to continue to fight must be ‘visualized’ and transferred into their body and respective organs. You might say to them (opponent’s organs (heart…) in your spirit, ‘palpitate,’ or flutter, or to stop 🛑 if you’re in terminal danger. A quick Tiger’s Paw to the throat will often make them reflex and bend over and while doing so, you disrupt their breathing with an extended strike to their solar plexus. All of us have the ability to deliver incapacitating blows to those who seek to do the same to us. The question is, ‘Do you’ have the mental capacity and or physical ability to follow through with your actions?!? Make VERY SURE to examine and evaluate the local and State laws that govern the type(s) of defensive techniques you intend’ to deploy! ‘THEY’ WILL consider YOU Guilty of ANY and ALL Crimes ‘They’ can imagine, BEFORE considering your actions to defend yourself!!!!! Their ‘intent’ can and often will be as criminal as the criminal who seeks to put you down, permanently. Making $$$ for the ‘man’ is their job!!!! The best and most effective method is to Not allow yourself to be in these positions. EVER!

[@strider8933]

Well taught!!!

[@tonyedge2457]

Lol the flurry would be devastating....jujitsu guy told me one time if You hit them more than twice and they are not on the ground Your doing something wrong and He could back it up! Love the content and looking forward to Your continuing vids..Thank You!

[@shaynehawkins713]

Good stuff. I use bil jee finger fan from wing chun too the eyes or windpipe. For knockouts you have too target the jaw. With a hook, cross or uppercut. Plus i like my straight blast from wing chun.

[@capthappy345]

Good selection! 👍

[@1Antonius]

Hey man, would you mind creating a playlist with all your self-defense videos and shorts. Thanks !

[@411Outdoors]

I very much need to do that. Thank you.

[@henrirt8991]

Good content as always

[@carolcanuso8636]

Thank you

[@muss.mal.nachdenkenmensch3460]

Good video. Being 6-8 inches closer will let you deliver the punch to the inside instead of to the surface. Impact will be much stronger.

[@carlnarvell2974]

Well presented

[@plasticoflamingo2952]

Do you do any nerve pinches? I have found them to be quite effective. Especially, when it is someone else being attacked, and I am in a position to rescue them. Super painful to the attacker, no pain, whatsoever, to me.

[@mattnobrega6621]

Simple and effective 😎👍

[@user-rh1zg6bc1n]

I noticed immediatly, that you have some fignting background. Most untrained people even don't know, that you have your fingers together and slightly curved to punche with the edge of the hand. And that a vertical punch with the strong knuckles is mostly easier to land, than a typical boxing punch with horizontal fist. Now I have a question: Damadged my second nuckle in a barenuckle fight. Not a street fight, just for fun. I'm a medical professional, so I know for sure, that the bone is not broken. The knukle is flattened out a bit, but even the tendon of the flexor is in quite (not totally) normal positioned. This happened 6 weeks before, I ccan do some light puches with wrapped hand, but it still hurts a lot to make knuckle pushups on hard floor. Any idea, how long this will go, and if I should just go through the pain to make the knuckle even more durable? Would be nice, to hear from you! And keep on with this videos, they are great!

[@vintdockery9121]

Loved it!! And I practice some of them as well.

[@juliodefreitas157]

Absolutely video. ❤❤

[@JimLander]

Seems to me you gave good advice here. Thanks. I hope to never need to us it!

[@johnholland3115]

Good stuff

[@dwightwilliams3500]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@411Outdoors]

Very welcome!

[@MJ-om8nw]

Excellent video sir. These are valuable tips, and I appreciate you showing them. I do have a question in regards to the chop to the carotid. If done correctly, will that knock someone out ? Or does it also have a chance of killing them? I may have missed it if you said. I want to be clear that I'm asking because I do NOT intend to kill anyone. But it would nice to know the possible outcome. Thanks.

[@411Outdoors]

Anytime!

[@VTLille]

Great video. Horizontal palm strikes under the chin and hammer fists to jaw and carotid artery are also good. Liver shot is a great one as well but maybe too technical?

[@Codevil.]

Its wild to think, in 250lbs , i had kknock out power from the waist, but i stil cant BOX

[@user-vc7zi5zl1c]

Could you review some Barnett slingshots

[@Denman500.]

Yes thank you.

[@glennrobinson7193]

Target Focus Training with Tim Larkin teaches and ingrounds into the student that it's not the technique that's important but the target therefore the result or the effect. Correct targeting, that's what is crucial. Also the punch, kuto (knife hand), hammer strike, palm strike, all kicks are only tools. The real weapon is your brain and therefore defeating your assailant's brain.

[@411Outdoors]

We’re definitely the real weapon

[@thevirginiabushcrafter8833]

Thanks for Sharing

[@andrewsilverstein6186]

Very real

[@Codevil.]

100%

[@dylanvisitacion8618]

👍

[@stephen8433]

Is the raised area like an artery on the BOB'S neck on the Left side a representation of the Carotid Artery?

[@411Outdoors]

The carotid artery usually lines up with the bend of the jaw bone

[@stephen8433]

@@411Outdoors Thank you.

[@tonynelson2100]

🙏🦅🙏🦅

[@VTPSTTU]

Thanks for the video. When I practice the open hand smack, I tend to draw my fingers back to ensure that my strike will land with the heel and palm of my hand. I worry that if my fingers get forward that I'll hit with the fingers. I worry that hitting with the fingers would be ineffective and break my fingers. Do you think that concern is valid? If I start to throw an eye rake with the fingers but it becomes a front of hand to the face or vice-versa, are each about equally likely to be effective? With any of these to distract an attacker first, how effective is putting both hands on the bottom of his ribs and pushing as hard as I can? If he's standing in front of a curb or something and I push hard, maybe he'll trip as he tries to step backwards.

[@genethedancinmachine5483]

Very important info. Thanks. But the first move, if possible, should be a gentle voice. that can work like a shovel to the face

[@arnoldestipona2244]

Asnub nose 38 spcl revolver is a good defense weapon

[@411Outdoors]

💯👍

[@jonathanschadenfreude9603]

25 seconds in.......ive see some serious work done with palm strikes believe it or not

[@mike3020]

Keys in the hand helps ! Lol

[@user-je7kh2lk3b]

Surprised you didn't discuss the palm heel strike under chin.

[@MrMaks18]

Excellent training where are you based?

[@411Outdoors]

Thank you! Out of southern Va

[@345kobi]

To have faith in it I would like to understand why striking under the ear is more effective than striking the jaw.

[@JPMerolla001]

Great video. Great way to look at things. Throwing punches is not really the best self defence. Also.... I've been hit in the solar plexus before. And believe me. It will def make you take a momeny, and think about moving forward.

[@johnwilde164]

So, no punch to the groin?

[@411Outdoors]

Makes better for a kick BUT not always easy to achieve

[@mortykatz8818]

I’m 73, with health problems- what can I train for?

[@mortykatz8818]

@@FishOnIsMyHandle it’s good to be optimistic but let’s be realistic. I have neuropathy and I need a skill to stop a dirt bag. What do you recommend

[@brosco4572]

​@@mortykatz8818learn how to throw a good kick to the balls, in street fighting everything is legal. This for sure will stop that dirt bag or stun him for 5 or more minutes, at your age you can for sure buy some walking cane but something with a good construction and train with that. I think 411 got a video about that but i am not sure. 🫨

[@brosco4572]

Yea he got a video about that named canes & self defence.

[@67wing]

@@mortykatz8818 I would go with a 22wmr handgun or a knife

[@mortykatz8818]

@@67wing i carry a sw 642, and 2 knives- I think I will get some cane training. Thanks

[@babsk4071]

👋Agreed..Its a Mind set.-I hadn't thought about MY STANCE-Till I was TIPPED BY MY SHOULDERS-in just 2Secs.IT THREW ME 6 ft./My Back was Fractured.'just like that!( by the tips of That Person's Hands)

[@marcelpraha6421]

I am living in one of most dangerous countries in Europe.. Germany

[@MorganBrown]

What if the attacker is wearing a bike helmet? Hard to get the head slap in there

[@SirPraiseSun]

everything is what ifs in life.. noone is claiming 1 technique can overcome every situation here.

[@MorganBrown]

@@SirPraiseSun haha, it's an honest question. I got into a fight with a guy wearing a bike helmet, tried to slap him and could not. ended up messing up my hand with closed fist strikes

[@411Outdoors]

I’ve tried replying a couple times but it won’t stick. In situations like that. You can focus on affective low kicks and shots to the body such as the solar plexus or you can just take them down.

[@brojitsu]

Ummm ok.

[@BradleyFrank-hu3xu]

👍 You did a nice presentation. .