A total knockout is the term used when a person is rendered no longer capable of attacking back. It is usually caused by sudden trauma to the brain, sometimes termed a cerebral concussion. A physical blow to the head or a punch to the body, such as the liver, causing excruciating pain, can effectively cause a total knockout.
During a street fight, the faster you knockout your attacker, the higher your chance of survival. It is important that what you take away from the previous paragraph is that the head, is not the only place to deliver a knockout.
A mistake that inexperienced street fighters face, is the over concentration of attacks, towards your attacker's head. The human head is relatively small, compared to the upper and lower parts of the body, and with proper evasive movement, it is easily possible to avoid most strikes to the head.
The human body has many more areas that are very susceptible to critical damage and knowing them may not only save your life in a street fight but also makes you an effective striker.
Instead of wildly swinging the hammer hoping to hit the nail while doing useless attacks and wasting your precious energy, I would like to suggest a three-zone attack strategy. These zones are vital and concentrating on any one of them will prove to be highly effective.
These three attack zones are:
1) Zone One (The head region: This includes the temples, eyes, nose, ears, neck and chin. The temple, neck and chin affects overall consciousness and the ability to make decisions, the eyes affect the sense of sight, nose affects smell and the ears the ability to hear. In general, targeting these areas will affect his basic senses.
2) Zone Two (To the neck, torso, groin): This includes the throat, left and right ribs, solar plexus, and groin. These areas affect the flow of air through the lungs and therefore, targeting these areas will affect your attacker's breathing. The importance of breath ranges from affecting a fighter's stamina to his attacking power as power and breath flow as one.
3) Zone Three (To the arms, legs and feet): This includes the arms, thighs, knees, shins, instep, and toes. Attacking any of these areas will affect his physical mobility. There is a saying that goes, take out a fighter's base and he is basically a sitting duck. This zone is highly recommendable, when you need to make an escape, as it is easy to strike areas within the mobility zone.
Stay safe and make sure you practise your self defense fighting techniques with a partner.
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