The Rules of Self Defense

Some one is attacking you, some one is trying to harm you, someone is harming your family, some one is stealing something you own.
You have only two choices.
1. You allow them to harm you and or your family, If you allow them to harm your family to what distance do you allow this.
Do you know how far they will go NO.
2. You defend what is yours.
Defending what is yours is going to get ugly.
Sorry! But this is the ugly truth of life.

Your first thought should be, there are no rules in a fight, you are defending yourself.
Your second thought is, Is there a weapon, If no weapon your odds are better.

What happens next is any body's guess, but you have said no to this person, You need to be prepared for anything. Always try to talk your way out of it. Do your best to make them leave. Or allow room for you to leave.

The person attacks. At this point what style of martial arts you have is not important. You are going to use it to the best of your ability. The attacker has hit you a couple of times and you have returned the same. You realize this has to end fast. The longer this lasts the easier it is to get hurt.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT now apply, you have been trained and realize what has to be done.

Any way you look at the above rules of engagement they are ugly. Lets look at each one carefully to understand what has to be done.

Take away the attackers air, Sounds easy, but remember the attacker is full of Adeline just like you and maybe alcohol and or drugs, maybe all of the above.

To take air away you need to hit the attacker in the diaphragm. To collapse the lungs.

This should allow time to leave or call the police. But the attacker regains faster than you thought he could.

Take away the attackers sight, Again this is uglier than the first rule. You can hit the attacker and break a nose causing a blurry vision or a women can scratch the eyes. The best for both is to drag your thumbnail across the top of the eye under the eyebrow. The skin in this location is very soft and it will bleed very fast. Causing great pain and blindness from the blood. This will look very ugly and nasty, but it will heal. That’s right! it will heal, yet it will slow the attacker down greatly. The attacker will have to clear his eyes to see, this give you a chance to get away.

Take away the attackers conscious, This means put him to sleep knock him unconscious. The best way is to choke the attacker into unconscious from behind, but maybe the attacker will not allow to get behind him. In This case you have to strike the diaphragm of the lungs. The muscle that separates the lungs from the stomach. This is the same as number one but a much hard strike. You need to collapse the lungs this time, and you need to do it in a very quick action. You can strike the back of the head, You can strike the jaw in the center. You can strike the side of the throat. You can strike behind the ear on either side of the face. All knock out points. Ok now the attacker is down you are calling the police for help and your opponent regains consciousness. Now your opponent will leave or be very angry and attack again with a vengeance this time. Dislocate or Break a bone ( wrist, arm, shoulder, leg ). This is a very ugly thing to do. You have been fighting for your life and done everything possible to change this persons mine, but so far you have failed. Remember: bones will heal! Nobody wants to break a bone on another person. There is great effort and great pain involved here. The best place is the a finger or a wrist, the collar bone or dislocate the shoulder all are fairly easy.

Knowing a little Chin Na would be good about now. If there is NO other recourse take out the knee. NO matter how big your opponent is if you take out the knee they can not stand period. If you are having difficulty with the line of action stop and think about what has already happened in this situation. You have tried every thing to change this persons mind and they are saying NO. If all of the above fail to change this persons mind there is only one recourse left. Kill the attacker, This is a very short statement and a very powerful one. One must think very carefully here. Do you need to take a life. I have heard a lot of students and other teachers say they could kill a human before and animal. I truly believe this to be a lie by all of them. Unless they have been in true combat. Which I know is not true.

I believe it is better to break several bones before killing someone. Break enough bones and they will become unconscious. Bones heal ! Taking a life does not heal you or them,

Therefore think about this article very carefully before something like this happens. Those who say; Oh that will happen to the other guy or other girls not to me. I believe you should visit an ER at night. For you ladies go visit a rape center. And look around At the other person they look just like you and the only thing was they were in the wrong place at the right time.

May you take this to heart

May God bless all with wisdom

Sifu Howard Unrein