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"You're comin' with me!" "No!" So Kiely grabs me around the neck. From here I can do a few different things. I can either spin and turn, blocking the arms out of the way... As my arm comes up, and goes out of the way, Lookit, I'm able to either deliver a palm strike to the nose, a palm strike to the chin, or, if I'm too close, even an elbow strike under the chin or to the face. If I can grab the person from the back, once they're kind of keeled over, I can also do a knee strike to the face, a knee strike to the genitals, and evade. You may have noticed that if I was in a situation where all I could do is step to the side, we make the hammer fist, strike to the genitals. It bends our opponent over, and now, knee strike to the face, knee strike to the face, and retreat. So as with all of our practices at home, it's important that we understand why we're gonna have our training partner hold the pads in a specific place, and why we're striking them once or twice at a time. So in this one, we're going to be practicing the skill of how to defeat our aggressor from the choke from behind. Your training partner's gonna hold the thai pad approximately where their chin would normally be, so that when we come up with our arm to sweep the choke, here's our elbow strike to the pad, elbow strike to the pad. Make sure your opponent holds it away from their face. If they hold it right in front of their face, it can sometimes hit their palm right into their nose or their face. So have them move their face to the side. All we want is this to become their head in practice. So strike, strike. Take their head. Now it becomes their face down here for the knee to the face. Strike. Strike. Now I did it lightly, obviously you can get your training partner to hold it well, so that you can get a little bit more strong, a little bit more strong as you build up your strength, your flexibility and your skills techniques.
When an aggressor grabs you around the neck from behind, there are a few different things you can do. You might use a palm strike the nose, and elbow strike to the face, a hammer first to the genitals, or a knee strike to the genitals.