Injury Contingency Self-Defence Training (diary entry)

                  The third hour of my security client's self-defence course focused on training with his non-dominant hand. In short, he has recently incurred injury outside of my classes to his dominant hand and we have decided to use it as a teaching opportunity. We went through all the previous material focusing on this particular hand including transitioning through postures. Then we looked at situations where he might use his lead hand to deliver a power shot i.e. his left hook. For this I referenced John "Awesome" Anderson's short set up where he brought his rear hand forward as a fence and whipped in the hook. For the main we have been training open hand strikes. Here I made an exception and we looked at the punch aimed at the jaw. This is a more advanced move in self-defence terms due to the risk of injury but I justify it here due to the demands of my client's work and the close approximately the setup puts the weapon to the target. We also trained some restrictive work on the short-hook. Whilst on the subject of training the hook, we covered the more general rear hand hook (from the dominant hand). This can be delivered from an invisible or exclamation fence which brings the striking hand outside a threat's peripheral vision. Finally we covered the long and short-range covers as a recovery tool. https://clubbchimera.com/services/