Below the Belt: Ch3

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Your Body’s Natural Weapons And How To Use Them

Although a woman’s body is physically weaker than a man’s body (in most instances), she still possesses an assortment of ‘natural, built-in’ weapons which, when applied properly and carefully trained, can inflict terrible damage on any adversary.

In your study of unarmed combat you will concentrate on using the following natural weapons:

The edge of your open hand.
The bottom, little-finger side, of your clenched fist.
The heel of your hand.
Your cupped hands.
Your fingers.
Your elbows.
Your knees.
Your feet.
Your head.
Your teeth.

Those are your finest, most dependable natural weapons.
They derive from karate, ju-jitsu and various forms of military and commando close-combat systems.

When these weapons are trained carefully to HIT, KICK, BUTT, STOMP, TEAR, RIP and GOUGE, they become brutally effective in dealing with an adversary.
And, when the proper use of your natural weapons has been COMBINED with the anatomical knowledge imparted in the next Chapter, you will be as ready as ever to take on a determined male opponent and WIN!

STRIKING POINTS VS. VITAL POINTS — THAT IS MORE THAN HALF OF-EFFECTIVE UNARMED COMBAT!

A WORD OF CAUTION AND EXPLANATION

One weapon commonly studied and used by ‘students of karate is the regular fist.
This particular weapon however, is NOT a reliable one for women.
It is not reliable, in fact, for men either — unless many, many months of hardening the fist are undertaken.
It is extremely difficult to learn how to deliver forceful, damaging punches.
Because of this, women are always urged by this writer to NEVER PRACTICE PUNCHING WITH THE REGULAR, CLENCHED FIST.
They must rely upon heel-of-the-hand and edge-of-the-hand blows.

Following carefully the illustrations, study the proper execution of the tactics you must learn with your natural weapon ‘arsenal’.. .

EDGE OF THE HAND:
This blow is delivered in a whip-like, lashing, snapping or chopping motion.
It can strike out fast in any direction, and deliver a damaging attack to almost any vital point on a man’s body.

You hit with the little-finger-edge of the hand, a bit closer to the heel than to the base of the finger.
This concentrates the force of your attack in a sharp, small area, localizing the penetration and shattering effect that the blow has.
The edge-of-the-hand blow is WHIPPED from the ELBOW DOWN.
It is never swung in an arc.

When delivering the edge-of-the-hand blow — or any other attack — try to twist your WHOLE BODY into the blow, so that every ounce of available power is brought to bear in striking the target.
Also, and VERY IMPORTANT:
REMEMBER THAT ANY BLOW IS STRUCK THROUGH, NOT ON THE TARGET AREA FOR MAXIMUM DESTROYING POWER.

YELLING is a natural aid in imparting real power to any attack.
Remember to YELL!

Without in any way causing deformity or callousing, a woman can treble the effectiveness of her edge-of-the-hand blow by moderate ‘conditioning’ exercises.

These include:

a. Drumming the hand edges on a table top, or other hard surface, and
b. Knocking the edges of the hands together.

A smack in the face will do nothing to an attacker except enrage him, and encourage him to attack again.
A fast edge-of-the-hand biow, however, delivered full-force across a man’s nose or windpipe, can drop him instantly like a felled oak!

The Bottom Fist Edge:
Although you must clench your fist to deliver this blow, you are not making your attack with the ‘fist’.
You are, instead, using your hand as though it were a hammer, to deliver a crushing, pounding-type blow.
Your point of contact in the bottom-fist strike is almost identical to the point of contact in an edge-of-the-hand blow, except that the hand edge is ‘bunched up’ in the bottom fist attack.
This weapon is capable of delivering an extremely powerful shock to the target.
To see just how powerfully you can batter into someone with the bottom of your fist, try pounding it full-force against a desk top or against a wall.
You will be able to hit with all of your power and you will feel NO PAIN whatever!

This is a great counter blow to employ against a man’s nose or temples when he attempts to grab you from the front.

The Heel Of The Hand:
This blow is absolutely superb for close-in hand-to-hand combat.
A woman weighing approximately 100 pounds can EASILY break the neck of a man weighing 200 pounds, by the proper application of a heel-of-the-palm blow under the chin.
Look at the photo showing how the hand should be formed for this blow.

The whole trick in employing the heel of the palm lies in learning to TURN YOUR BODY WEIGHT into the thrust of your hand.
This becomes an enormously powerful technique of attacking anyone — especially when the blow lands deep under the chin.

Any time your opponent is in front of you, close, and you’ve got one hand free, the heel of the hand is a sure means of dealing with him.

The heel-of-the-hand can also stun an opponent if delivered forcefully up under the nose.
You can break many forms of frontal grab attacks by this simple tactic.

Perhaps the best way to use the heel of your hand is in a COMBINATION jab under the chin, followed by a vicious EYE GOUGE follow-up.
As your heel lands hard on his chin, and drives his head back, you simply go for his eyes with the fingers of that same hand.

CUPPED HANDS:
By cupping both hands and holding them rigidly, you can generate an especially damaging attack to your adversary’s head.
Smash both cupped hands — simultaneously — over the opponent’s ears.
DO IT HARD!
Make the attack as though you wanted both hands to go through your opponent’s head and ‘‘clap’’ together — palm to palm!
The result of the correct administration of this attack is ruptured eardrums and cerebral hemorrage.
And that’s where the encounter ends!

The Fingers:
The fingers have a wide variety of uses in unarmed combat.
They are THE WEAPON for assaulting the eyes, and are more suitable for attacking the testicles than any punch or kick could be.
This bears special application in rape defense, which will be dealt with separately in Chapters 7 and 8.

The simplest tactic employing the fingers is a straight thrust.
With ALL FINGERS EXTENDED STIFFLY thrust them straight and hard into the opponent’s eyes.
The object is NOT to merely ‘poke’ the eyes.
The object is to PIERCE THROUGH the eyes, and such a thrust is, in reality, directed towards the back of the victim’s head.
You aim to jab right through his eyeballs, in other words.
Everyone has a natural instinctive ‘blinking’ reaction to objects thrown at the eyes.
This causes the eyelids to close automatically, on contact, with your fingers.
So, the thrust must be so hard that you destroy the eye tissue by bypassing the thin protective layer of the eyelid.

Think of the stiffened fingers as spear tips aimed at PIERCING THROUGH YOUR ENEMY’S HEAD.

Do not poke with only two fingers.
This unnecessarily limits your attacking weapons.
Extend all fingers and ram them hard.

Since the fingers tend to be the weakest of your natural weapons, you probably will want to practice some form of strengthening exercise for them.
Driving them into a bucket of uncooked rice is a perfect form of finger ‘conditioning.’
The fingers will never be used to attack hard or resistant body areas, but will be used exclusively against the eyes, throat and testicles.

You may find it interesting to note that advanced karate students sometimes train by plunging their fingers into GRAVEL.
An expert with years and years of training can, in fact, pierce through a man’s body with a ‘spear hand’ finger karate thrust!
So, the fingers must not be under-estimated as weapons in unarmed defense or attack!

The fingers may also be used in a pincer-type attack to effect a stranglehold on a man’s windpipe.
See the photos illustrating this technique, which is extraordinarily effective.
The fingers seize the windpipe, obtain a powerful grip and pull OUT hard, while SQUEEZING with all available strength.
Strangulation can be effected within five or six seconds!

The finger strangle is effective any time your opponent is close enough to reach without extending your arm fully.
Used to viciously seize, crush and twist a man’s testicles, the fingers are murderously effective weapons.

Since the thumbs are powerful they can be applied as GOUGING INSTRUMENTS against the opponent’s eyes.
They will blind and kill when used properly.
They must be driven hard into the corners of the man’s eyes and BACK.
This attack will cause brain injury and is an excellent means of breaking loose from a man’s grasp.

Another good exercise to strengthen the fingers and hands for unarmed combat is to use a simple WRIST ROLLER training aid.
This is a thick, rounded piece of wood with a hole drilled through the center.
A piece of rope two feet long is inserted through the wood and knotted at one end.
A small weight is tied to the other end of the rope, and the trainee practices winding and unwinding the rope against the resistance of the weight.
See the illustrations of the exercise performance for clarification.

ELBOWS:
The most powerful natural weapons a woman has are her feet and her elbows.
Both of these ‘‘weapons’’ require more practice than the hands, but the time spent is well worth it.

The elbow, properly employed, can deliver crushing, knockout blows in any direction.
And they come as a tremendous shock to an assailant.

The trick in using the elbow properly is always to swap the elbow hard in a body-twisting movement, with the arm BENT SHARPLY.
The arm and fist should be strongly tensed, and, as always, the strike is made ‘through’ — not on— the target.
Whether up, back, front or side, the blow must be struck only when the opponent is close.
This will insure that the blow catches the opponent from the proper distance.

KNEES:
The knee should concern every woman student of unarmed combat as a PRIME WEAPON against any would-be assailant.
The rules of delivering a good knee attack are:

i BE CLOSE TO THE OPPONENT — VERY CLOSE

KNEE HIM REPEATEDLY, UNTIL HE COLLAPSES
THRUST YOUR HIPS INTO YOUR KNEE BLOW, AND TENSE THE STOMACH MUSCLES STRONGLY

The testicles are the primary target for the knee attack, and the desirability of using this attack cannot be stressed enough.

Occasionally, the ears or the hair is grabbed, and the opponent’s head is pulled strongly down into a powerful knee kick to his face.
Here again, REPEATED knee smashes accomplish the most good (or bad).

Avoid practicing the ‘roundhouse’ type of knee blow taught in many classical karate schools.
This is a good form of attack for a VERY WELL TRAINED MAN WEARING PANTS — but for a lady in a mini-skirt, it’s OUT!
Stick to the basic upward knee blow.

FEET:
Every woman who wishes seriously to be able to fight a man and win, MUST develop the ability to kick — hard, fast and furious, into the right targets on a man’s body.
With a little concentrated practice a woman can learn to easily employ her foot edge, heel, ball of foot, and foot-sole in a devastating manner.

The front kick is snapped-up-into, then whipped-back-from its target.
Think of the knees and crotch of a man as the TARGET TRIANGLE for the most effective kicks.
The side thrust kick is always delivered low, at the knee or below.
High kicks (above the waist) are strictly for the movies.

The heel of the foot can deliver a very powerful back kick up and INTO the testicles of a man who grabs you from behind.
It really matters little how he grabs you, too — so long as your feet are free; he may even lift you up.

Close contact from the front means kicking to the knee, scraping the foot-edge down the shin bone, and crushing the instep!
High heels are a positive asset here!

When a man is down, kick for the head.
And keep kicking until blood is running freely from his ears, nose and mouth.
Or, kick to the armpit, spine or ribs.

HEAD:
The head is a very excellent weapon when used to buttsmash the opponent’s nose.
It can be snapped FORWARD or BACKWARD, depending upon your position relative to the opponent.
Remember the value of this head butt if you are grabbed from the front or rear, and your arms are immobilized.
BUTT HIM HARD!

It is true that a head butt may only cause an opponent to flinch in pain, but that is enough to permit you to do greater damage with an immediate follow-up.
And, of course, you will follow-up!

The head should not be used to butt the stomach.

TEETH:
The teeth can rip, tear and bite into extremely vulnerable body areas.
They can — if you will drop all silly reservations about using them away from the dinner table — provide a sure means of disabling a killer or rapist when all else has failed to stop him.

The key target for the teeth is the side of the neck.
Ideally, the goal is to rip out the carotid artery and tear open the whole side of your opponent’s neck — like a mad dog.
This is not as easy to do as it sounds.
The best way is to sink — REALLY SINK — your teeth INTO the opponent’s neck, like a hyena then LASH YOUR HEAD WILDLY BACK AND FORTH, tearing out his neck.
REALLY HANG ON WITH YOUR TEETH AND JAW MUSCLES.
You let go only when your adversary’s screams have subsided, and he falls limply to the ground.

Again, it must be stressed most emphatically:

The goal in unarmed combat is to KNOCK-OUT, MAIM or KILL.
And to do so within thirty seconds.
There is no time for hesitation.
No margin for error.
Knowing that you can bite out a man’s neck will do you no good if you are too squeamish to REALLY GO AT HIM AND BITE!

In a close combat encounter you must be an ANIMAL to WIN.
Because the enemy wants to win just as badly as you do!
And he will fight with everything in him to beat, kill or destroy you.
He will exploit any ‘womanly’ kindness, any hesitation, and laxity whatever in your FIGHTING SPIRIT and your WILL TO WIN.
He wants to rape you.
Or kill you.
Or beat you senseless.
IT’S KILL OR BE KILLED.
Period.

Think frequently about each of the effective natural weapons you possess.
Mentally review how and when they can be applied in the countless possible ways you may meet an opponent.
You NEED the forceful application of your body’s natural weapons in order to SURVIVE.
Screaming and scratching are pitifully, woefully INEFFECTIVE.

In an actual situation remember that your power must be vigorously applied without delay, against the WEAKEST MOST VULNERABLE POINTS ON THE OPPONENT’S ANATOMY.
YOU HAVE ONE CHANCE TO STOP THE RAPIST, ONE CHANCE TO BATTER DOWN THE MUGGER, ONE AND ONLY ONE GODDAMN CHANCE TO SAVE YOUR BODY AND SOUL FROM ANY SERIOUS PHYSICAL HARM.
Your natural weapons should be brought into play with the fury, ruthlessness and viciousness of a crazed, wild beast.
You must learn to fight and hit and kick and gouge and spit and tear at your attacker until he is no more!
You must fight like your LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT, BECAUSE IT DOES!

Remember to GROWL and to YELL and to CONTORT your face when you fight.

Remember to THROW ANY THING at the opponent, or to USE ANYTHING AS A WEAPON TO HIT THE OPPONENT before you use your hands and feet against him.

Remember that the WILL TO WIN is what decides the winner in a ‘do or die’’ fight.
THERE WILL BE ADRENALIN FLOWING THROUGHOUT YOUR SYSTEM GIVING YOU THREE TIMES YOUR NORMAL STRENGTH WHEN YOU NEED IT!

Remember, also: Your husband, your children, your family.
And think of what will become of them if the opponent wins.
Remember you are defending your loved ones when you defend yourself.
If you lose the fight, they lose ‘you.

Make up your mind right now that YOU WILL WIN.
Even if you've got to fight a goddamn giant with one arm tied behind your back!