--------------------------------------------- + + + Fighting skills I by Night Crawler + + Effective Target Selection + + + --------------------------------------------- Hello! Welcome to the world of reality where some sicko will just as soon take your balls off and hang them on the wall than suck down a 7 year old boy...In this world we live in today, one must know how to defend himself, as one who is defenseless will soon get attacked (Sun Tzu, Ancient Art of War (c) 17th century). This first article will teach you an opponents vital spots to give you a greater chance of winning a conflict. To demonstrate take the following example: Fighter #1) Throws a long right to #2's jaw. Fighter #2) Side Steps, hooks arm, Knife hand (karate chop) #1's throat, and breaks the elbow by falling to the ground. Who won? #2, obviously because he knew that his opponents throat was open. In this example #1 was on the ground puking blood with only one arm working right...#2 combined his knowledge of his opponents body with a little basic training and ended a fight in less than say, 4 seconds. It really does happen folks... Great eh? mwahahha... The most important thing in a fight (and the most neglected) is the block. Without a block (block-defender throws something to redirect attackers energy, OR moves out of the way and lets the energy connect with nothing, mid-air), you get hit, right? If you are occupying the space that will soon be occupied by an attackers foot, I would think you would 1) stop occupying the space or 2) make sure the opponents foot wont occupy the space, or 3) both (doubly sure!). You get the idea. After a block, The attacker is ALWAYS open. There is nothing an attacker can throw that won't leave him open somewhere. You quickly assimilate what areas are open, and then attack with an appropiate blow. In this process the new defender may block and counter-attack you! so be careful. This can be a long cycle with two smart fighters continuously blocking and counter-attacking each other! (You have seen this thousand of times in ninja and kung-fu movies...Untrained fighters simply cannot block and counter-attack...that's a fact, jack) I'll deal with different types of blows and kicks later, now we'll deal with the target areas... The Body is divided into three areas: 1) upper position top of head to the diaphragm 2) middle position Diaphragm to the groin 3) lower position groin to lower extremities 1) Upper position A) Skull - any blow to the skull may cause cerebral concussion, unconsiousness, fracture, laceration (very often lethal) 1. Parietal Bone - Top of head protecting the brain 2. Frontal Bone - Forehead protecting brain and large blood vessels 3. Temporal Bone - Side of head (temple) midway between the corner of the eye and ear. Temporal Artery is located here. 4. Nasal Bone - Bone located in the nose 5. Maxilla - Upper jaw 6. Mandible - Lower jaw 7. Zygoma - Cheek Bones (breakable) 8. Lacrimal - Bones surrounding the eye. B) Eye - necessary for vision, hemorrhages easily C) Nose - extremely sensitive to trauma, fractures and moves directly into forebrain on upward trauma (causing death and/or loss of memory...haha) D) Ear (trauma directly to ear can cause rupture to eardrum resulting in Severe Pain. E) Neck 1. Anterior - front of neck, contains adam's apple, fractures relatively easy, causing loss of ability to inhale... 2. Lateral - side of neck, contains muscles protecting large blood vessels, arteries and veins and large veins - trauma resulting in spasm of vessels decreasing oxygen resulting in unconsiousness causing hemorrhage and death (I say death is better with a hemorrhage anyway) 3. Posterior - back of neck, trauma causing severe pain, unconsciousness F) Clavicle - collar bone, is easily fractured, and interestingly enough removes victims ability to move his arm away from his body! G) Sternum - breast bone, extremely painful when injured. H) Ribs - elastic arches of bones, easily broken, may puncture lungs or heart I) Axilla - Arm Pits, contain large blood vessels, trauma causes extreme pain and/or paralysis of the arms J) Heart - in general area of left breast nipple, non-penetrating force can cause hemorrahage and often rupture K) Arm 1. Shoulder - trauma causing dislocation, severe pain or fracture 2. Elbow - trauma causing severe pain, fracture, dislocation, internal bleeding 3. Wrist and Hand - trauma causing severe pain, fracture, dislocation, rupture of blood vessels II. Middle Position Diaphragm to groin, Diaphragm being the floor of the chest cavity A) Stomach - hemorrahage and extreme pain B) Solar Plexus - great network of nerves location of dorsal aspect of stomach (the front part). Gives off nervous control to all abdominal organs. Trauma causes slow death. C) Liver - located under right portion of Diaphragm, trauma causes severe pain and possible hemorrhage and death. D) Kidneys - located on back of the abdomen, severe pain, severe hemorrhage causes death. Excellent target when side stepping to opponent's side. E) Small Intestine - it can be contracted around the belly button, causes severe pain and possible rupture F) Large Intestine - in lower abdomen, can rupture, causes severe pain G) Lumbar Area - Arch of lower back, trauma results in severe pain, possible fracture, permanent paralysis to the legs and pee-pee (dick) III. Lower Position groin to lower extremities (legs) A) Bladder - below belly button and above groin, trauma causes possible rupture (all urine spills out into the opponents body) B) Inguinal Rings - to either side of the groin, trauma causes severe pain and possible herniation (he can't stand straight for about a decade) C) Pubic Symphysis - pubic bone in groin area; directly in the middle, trauma causing fracture (nothing else, he won't die contrary to popular opinion) D) Testicles & Scrotum (If they have any) - pouch containing the testes - extremely sensitive - trauma causing severe pain, hemorrhage E) Sacrum - bony extension located on both sides of buttocks, trauma causing severe pain and fracture F) Coccyx - tailbone, trauma causing severe pain and possible fracture G) Leg 1. Hip Joint - prominent on top and side of leg, trauma causing pain and possible fracture 2. Inner Thigh - upper and inner part of leg, trauma causing rupture of the large femoral blood vessels 3. Knee a. Front - trauma causing severe pain, dislocation and possible fracture b. Back - trauma causing tearing of ligaments and popliteal blood vessels 4. Anterior Tibial - shin bone, trauma causing severe pain (in most cases, some people can't feel that) and possible fracture (everyone feels that) 5. Anterior - instep, trauma causing fracture and severe pain 6. Posterior - back of heel, trauma causing pain and fractrure or tearing of the achilles tendon (making it difficult to walk) Well friends, there it is. You can easily make a body chart on the wall or just mark up your sister or what-have-you. I present this for self defense use only, however, if you get into the case where someone needs his block knocked off, go for it... Night Crawler A.O.A. Radio productions --------------------------------------------- + + + Fighting skills II by Night Crawler + + Confrontations + + + --------------------------------------------- Hello! Welcome back to the world of reality! This article in the series deals with ... Confrontations ... What is a Confrontation? A confrontation is the first thing before a fight, or it may start a fight. When you meet somebody, that is not a confrontation. Usually you won't want to fight him (you wouldn't walk down the street and start with everyone you see would you?) so if you dont know him, you walk past and don't even look at him. If you know them, you might look and nod. If you want to fight you may snarl and swear and huff and puff until your chinny chin chin hairs stick up. That is a confrontation. Confrontations happen most often in school, and almost as often in bars. When two people are drunk, they may start a fight without intending to... That's why you commonly see two best friends biffin' it out, or more often two strangers who've never seen each other. A confrontation in a bar occurs most often because the other guy (we'll refer to him as asshole, they almost always are) gets close and says something that you can't back down out of without losing face. He might say "Hey this guy has a slimey dick" which you wittingly reply "Hey! He just stuck his hand down my pants! Ack!" as loud as possible. Asshole doesn't have time to back down out of this so he throws a punch at you. so on... If you want to avoid a confrontation in a bar, just get a lounge and watch asshole #1 fight asshole #2 (which incidently, the best way to learn how to fight is to watch others and think about their mistakes), or if you have to sit at the bar, mind your own business, and if someone comes up to you and says something about your mom's gray pubic hair, you should say "I know..." and leave, and don't come back (who wants someone who says his mom's pussy really is gray?) The most important part of a confrontation is identifying when one is going on. You should be suspicious if you tell the asshole next to you that you pumped his girlfriend and he smiles while his hand is on an empty beer bottle...He's probably waiting for you to turn around which then he will follow up by smashing bottle #1 into your face... Another thing to be suspicious of is if you see the same strange people crowding you all night and they're all looking at you with beady eyes... Well, you can figure it out... So what I'm trying to explain to you is that a confrontation usually ends up in a fight, and also a confrontation is very hard to back down out of. Identifying a possible confrontation is the best way to get out of a fight (or better yet to get in to one). 'til next time NC (I'm pumping your girlfriend, asshole)