This
is Steve “The Dragon” Jimenez and in this segment we are going to
go over straight punches.
There
are three different types of straight punches that we have. There are
either straight punches making contact with
the fist or with the palm and heel strike, all the mechanics
in between are the same, but just now you can either make contact
with the fist with these two knuckles here or you can make contact
with the heel, the palm or the heel here. In our straight punches,
our weapon in Krav Maga, all are weapons always lead first. The
weapon always goes and then the body goes behind it.
You
must stay squared out my chin is down, shoulders are slightly forward
and I am in a very relaxed position, the punch goes out. It goes out
loose and relaxed, on impact make contact. On impact we close our
fist and tighten up and we make contact with the top three knuckles.
Here we try to keep our fist in a vertical position as if you are
holding a coffee mug, that is real quick, here making contact. Notice
that shoulder is up and the chin is slightly down, so I can protect
the face during combat.
From
here, I am going to rotate, when I rotate my body, my entire body, my
hip goes into the stride. The one hand is punching and the other is
always defending, guard is always up. You either have a full guard or
you have a half guard either one that was a straight punch. I did
mention that we have a palm heel strike as well. The thing about the
palm heel strike it eliminates the one joint, it is actually a
stronger strike and it can also eliminate a possible injury from the
joint, maybe tweaking the wrist. So, if you want to be a little
safer, maybe if it is a woman who has nails, they cannot make a tight
fist so the nail do not dig into the palm of the hand, you can
actually strike with the palm here.
Every
time we strike, we strike into different areas. We are striking here,
I am going to use both strikes, here, here, here, here, here, here.
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