Smash the Face — Destroy them with Elbows — Self-Defense Technique

You might not want to hurt another human being, but some­times you are left with no choice…

If an attacker becomes aggres­sive towards you, your fam­ily or your friends, then they leave you with no choice but to get physical!

In this self defense video, I am going to show you the very effec­tive elbow strikes from face smash tech­nique. This self defense tech­nique takes NO PRISIONERS, and can quickly leave an attacker on the floor won­der­ing what just hit him.

Intense Martial Arts Workout — Gain Strength for Martial Arts

If you prac­tice mar­tial arts, one thing you should always be doing is improv­ing your strength, sta­mina and endurance. When it comes to a fight, this can be the DIFFERENCE between win­ning or losing.

In this mar­tial arts work­out video, I will show you a crazy mar­tial arts work­out that takes things to a whole new level. This is def­i­nitely one of my favorite strength and train­ing work­outs for mar­tial arts.

Wrestling for Self-Defense: The Snatch Single Takedown

It works in the MMA cage, but is the sin­gle leg take­down effec­tive on the street?

In this self defense video, Gary and myself (Matt) will teach you one of the most aggres­sive and effec­tive ways to put a street attacker on his back and then quickly tran­si­tion to the mount where you can end the fight. This move is great for big­ger guys who lack speed and agility.

The MMA & Self-Defense Guard — the Hold Down Position

The hold down posi­tion is the one most effec­tive bot­tom guard posi­tions to be in; whether it is a MMA fight or a Self-Defense situation.The hold down posi­tion allows you to to con­trol your opponent’s pos­ture, body posi­tion, and eas­ily tran­si­tion to a vari­ety of sub­mis­sions (if MMA), joint breaks (if Self-Defense) or get back to your feet.

The man demon­strat­ing in these is 3rd Degree Brazil­ian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt, Amer­i­can Top Team MMA Trainer and MOST impor­tantly my jiu-jitsu teacher: Luigi Mondelli.

These videos go over the basics of secur­ing the hold down posi­tion, as well as 2 sim­ple sub­mis­sions and finally how to get up from the position.

Ground Fighting Self-Defense Techniques

Almost all alter­ca­tions will even­tu­ally go to the ground. This hold true whether you are in a street, mil­i­tary or law enforce­ment fight­ing scenario.

There are many ways the fight can end up on the ground. You could exe­cute a throw or take­down, the attacker could bring you to the ground, one of the com­bat­ants could trip, one could be stunned and fall, etc. When you get to the ground, it is imper­a­tive to rec­og­nize that this is a dan­ger­ous place and sit­u­a­tion. Spend­ing too much time on the ground opens you up for other attacks. Also, the more time you spend there, the more time your attacker has time to cap­i­tal­ize on the sit­u­a­tion as well. If you are in the mil­i­tary you always need to be aware of what other weapons may be avail­able to your oppo­nent dur­ing the fight. They may have lost their rifle, but still have access to their sidearm if they are able to cre­ate dis­tance to shoot. This holds true with civil­ian or law enforce­ment sce­nar­ios as well. There is always a chance that your oppo­nent maybe car­ry­ing a con­cealed weapon or use a weapon of oppor­tu­nity dur­ing the fight. Because of the height­ened risk asso­ci­ated with ground com­bat, you need to end the sit­u­a­tion quickly. The ben­e­fit of learn­ing ground fight­ing tech­niques is that most attack­ers are not famil­iar with ground fight­ing tac­tics and make com­mon mis­takes which can be eas­ily cap­i­tal­ized on and allow you to fin­ish off your attacker.

Front Choke Defense Against a Wall

When I see a mar­tial arts tech­niques that talk about “Front Choke Defense” I mostly scream BULLLLSHIIITTT!!!

Step 1 — Slap your oppo­nents arms with a drag­onball fist
Step 2 — Strike nerve cen­ter X78C2 to tem­porar­ily blind your attacker
Step 3 — Twist their nip­ple into compliance.

Lets be hon­est — the front choke is really not an effec­tive attack, NO ONE is just going to grab your throat and start chok­ing you on the street. It doesn’t make sense and all you have to do is turn your head to escape.

MMA Ground and Pound for Self-Defense

Ground strik­ing is some­thing that most of us think is “easy” or is a “no-brainer”. The fact of the mat­ter is that strik­ing on ground, is actu­ally a lot harder then you think — espe­cially if you have an oppo­nent who is strong, can keep you down, and con­trol your motions.

The abil­ity to strike on the ground is some­thing that MMA fight­ers do very well. Reality-Based Mar­tial Arts and MMA have more sim­i­lar­i­ties then they would both like to admit. The both use very sim­i­lar tech­niques, yet change the mind­set to work for the sit­u­a­tion that they are in. That is why I per­son­ally train both in sport fight­ing and real­ity based self-defense. When train­ing for sport I am hon­ing my skills, teach­ing myself nat­ural reac­tions and learn­ing to deal with fear, aggres­sion, and adren­a­line. Train­ing in sport allows us to progress in our mar­tial art. But — I also train specif­i­cally for self-defense. I do many drills, sce­nar­ios, and spe­cific train­ing that relates to real self-defense.

Front Choke Defense — Spear Hand to Throat

The front choke is a com­mon attack used to either threaten or seri­ously harm a vic­tim. When it is most com­mon is when used to pin a vic­tim against a wall, car, etc. It is also a com­mon ground fight­ing attack. This par­tic­u­lar response: The Spear­hand, found in the H2H Com­bat Sys­tem, can be used stand­ing or on the ground to cre­ate an open­ing for more tech­niques. It causes an extreme pain response, but not a dis­abling response. It can be used as an open­ing to either get away or QUICKLY fol­low up with other attacks.

Crashing Technique Against Punches

Most mar­tial artist think of block­ing punches as either some “Daniel-Son” type of karate block or pos­si­bly fight­ing like a boxer who slips and par­ries to avoid punches. But the most nat­ural human reac­tion to being punched is to put our hands up over our face and cover our head. This is actu­ally not a bad approach to defend­ing our­selves; but the tech­nique of it actu­ally needs to be tweaked a lit­tle bit.

One of the tech­niques we work the in the H2H Self-Defense Sys­tem is called the crash­ing tech­nique. The crash­ing tech­nique is the act of strate­gi­cally cov­er­ing our head and vital tar­gets and then crash­ing into our oppo­nent. This self-defense tech­nique does a vari­ety of things.

Self-Defense Against a Wall

It’s rare to be involved in a fight where a walls, fences, cars, poles… cages are not involved. I can rarely think of a real fight that I have seen (whether on video or in per­son) where the fight­ers have not had hard objects around them. Yet some­times in our train­ing, we ignore the impor­tant value of fight­ing against a wall (I’ll use wall as a blan­ket term for all of the pre­vi­ously men­tioned hard objects). Most of us mar­tial artists train in an open envi­ron­ment where the wall is not used, not trained against, and is not taken into the equa­tion of real com­bat training.

Luck­ily for myself and those who have trained in the H2H Com­bat Sys­tem over the years — the wall has become a very impor­tant part of our train­ing. Per­son­ally, I use the wall exten­sively in my train­ing. One of favorite train­ing envi­ron­ments was in my instruc­tors home built dojo. It was a shed that was con­verted into a tra­di­tional Japan­ese Ju-Jitsu dojo in his back­yard. It could fit about 12 adults. The walls were re-enforced and when we sparred, the walls were ALWAYS used. We would pin each other against the wall, do take­downs against the wall, use it to our advan­tage to get up, or to keep a stronger oppo­nent down.