This edition of Cruse's corner comes as a result of a question from Robert Young. (Editor of Blackbelt Magazine)
If you had to teach a student only ONE 'technique' (the straight lead, the hook kick, etc.) what would that 'technique' be?
Answer;
"The Eyes Have It"
I would teach he or she to attack any adversary or assailant’s eyes with the human body’s most natural and most efficient strike. This strike is not an eye poke or an eye jab. Rather it is a lighting fast backhand strike to the perpetrator’s eyes. The eye is the only organ on the body that directly touches the brain and we in PFS simply refer to the eyeball as the ‘off’ button. This means that when you hit one eye it affects both and usually will bring a sudden and vicious end to any altercation. To validate this point one only needs to do the following:
1. Identify your weapon. Do this by taking the back of the hand and it’s first 2 knuckles on all of your fingers. Turn your hand so that you can see your palm and then strike the palm of your other hand with this tool. It is kind of a ‘high-five’ type of motion only using the back of the hand. It follows a very natural line of attack and resembles the traditional Karate back-fist technique… The following pictures illustrate this clearly. (See picture sequence???)
2. Identify the target….The eye ball.
3. Practice by having someone hold a focus pad while the other hits a small round target the size of a quarter on the pad. This will teach accuracy and correct placement of this all around fight-ender. (llustrate…)
4. To get an idea of just how potent this one weapon might be in any altercation, try it on yourself. No, please do not send yourself to the emergency room. Just take the back of your hand using the aforementioned knuckles and lightly tap your own eye. Then gradually increase the impact until you get the idea of just how stunning and vicious this strike can be. A good MD friend of mine told me that this strike is, structurally, the fastest strike on the human body!
5. In a grabbing, holding, wrestling or any position that does not allow the freedom of motion to use this tool then we would attack with the ‘Kina Mutai’ eye gouge. One simply grabs the assailant’s neck or head and applies either an eye gouge or eye rake. If you have long finger nails then the raking attack has it’s advantages. If your nails are short, then the gouge or sinking the fingers into the eye-socket works well.
Ok, that’s it. Pretty simple, easy to learn. Almost immediately functional and a very potent weapon to use in any self-defense situation.
Thomas Cruse
Progressive Fighting Systems
Senior Instructor
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