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Pressure PointsPressure points are areas extremely susceptible to incapacitating pain or injury. Examples would be the groin, windpipe or nose. Nerve centers are areas of the body that because of a concentration of relatively exposed nerves are particularly vulnerable to pain, such as the shin. In a situation when self defense techniques are needed it should not be necessary to strike a lot of these areas. Remember your goal is to escape, not to beat the tar out of the assailant. Sometimes one only needs to inflict a brief one time pain to let the attacker know that you will not be a passive victim and that you do know how to defend yourself. Depending on the position of the attacker and how close he is will determine where you will strike and with what part of your body you will employ. Do not step in closer, say, to strike his nose with your hand, when you can reach his knee with a kick. When striking a target on the upper half of the body you will use your hand. Effective strikes can be made with the outer edge of your hand in a knife hand position, a palm strike or knuckle blow for softer targets or a tightly curled fist. If in a very close range an elbow strike can be valuable used forward, backward, unassisted or assisted. When the targets are located from the waist down, kicking would be the technique of choice. The toe and instep of the foot work well if you are wearing shoes, but barefoot, these areas of the foot are to vulnerable to be effective. The heel and outside edge of the foot are harder and therefore more effective. Again, in a very close range an knee strike would be the way to go.
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