Strangest self defense ever heard of.

[Spartacus Maximus]

What is the strangest self defense you have ever seen or heard of, excluding the use of objects or weapons?

Nose hair pull. If anybody ever tried to pluck out a nose hair, they know how it makes the eyes water and can be quite painful. Coupled with the element of surprise it can give enough time to break away and escape. I heard of someone using it to escape a two-handed grab. The defender suddenly reached up with both hands up to the attackers nostrils, pinched some hairs and viciously yanked them out.

Unusual, gross but effective. Had a good laugh about that one.

[Hawkmoon]

hehehe!!

I had a chance to do some 'unarmed combat' with my father one time many moons ago.

He had served in the Army was a PT instructor as well as an unarmed combat instructor.

He decided to teach me some stuff ... to this day (effective as it was) I still cannot get the images of the first thing he (thankfully) only explained to me!

Grab a good handful of the gentleman parts then make a fist ... now do as you wish you will get no resistance at all only utter compliance!

Years later at Ju-Jitsu a mistake had my fingers end up in the other guys mouth.

We reacted as you'd expect all sorry, laughing and yuk... sensei came over and offered a defense to that attack!!

I was instructed to bite down on his fingers, hard, real hard on his fingers now lodged firmly in my mouth!

I released in seconds as he applied a technique to a pressure point in the mouth (or under the chin) depending on your pint if view!

(p.s he was a smoker, yummy!)

[bushido_man96]

A defensive set of techniques a Kung Fu stylist once showed us was called "the crotch rip." Quite entertaining.

[DWx]

A defensive set of techniques a Kung Fu stylist once showed us was called "the crotch rip." Quite entertaining.

I was just about to post this! When I was at university, the tkd instructor there suggested this as an application for moves 2-3 in Toi Gye. Would work if you were fighting Spartan style!

[bushido_man96]

A defensive set of techniques a Kung Fu stylist once showed us was called "the crotch rip." Quite entertaining.

I was just about to post this! When I was at university, the tkd instructor there suggested this as an application for moves 2-3 in Toi Gye. Would work if you were fighting Spartan style!

[Wado Heretic]

Monkey steals the peach was a common euphemism used when I did kenpo

Must say when it comes to biting; I would never advise it. Changes how one holds the jaw, making it much easier to do something nasty too, plus of course the mandible claw and other painful nerve pinches. Same with trying eye pokes when you have already been grabbed, and lost control of the situation.

Strangest self-defence I have personally encountered; an "anti-grappling" (immediate warning sign) technique against a tackle, by grabbing the head on both sides, with both hands, and forcing one's thumbs into the eyes. Would not have been so bad if it was done with some awareness of sprawling, or an effort to turn the head over to cause a tumble; it still would have been bad either way, but in this particular case the guy just stood there in the path of the tackle and pushed the guy down with the thumbs to the eyes. The partner was of course being compliant (who wouldn't be in such a crazy drill?), and frankly the distance he was working from I thought he was trying to tackle to mat in front of the instructor, not the instructor.

He also did a eye poke like thing as a defence against a rear naked choke, with the choke on, and that is when I called it a day and left. Such nonsense would just get a person seriously injured. I suspect I missed out on some excellent nonsense. I really should try and recall the guys name because I need to direct people as far away from him as possible.

[JR 137]

Monkey steals the peach was a common euphemism used when I did kenpo

Must say when it comes to biting; I would never advise it. Changes how one holds the jaw, making it much easier to do something nasty too, plus of course the mandible claw and other painful nerve pinches. Same with trying eye pokes when you have already been grabbed, and lost control of the situation.

Strangest self-defence I have personally encountered; an "anti-grappling" (immediate warning sign) technique against a tackle, by grabbing the head on both sides, with both hands, and forcing one's thumbs into the eyes. Would not have been so bad if it was done with some awareness of sprawling, or an effort to turn the head over to cause a tumble; it still would have been bad either way, but in this particular case the guy just stood there in the path of the tackle and pushed the guy down with the thumbs to the eyes. The partner was of course being compliant (who wouldn't be in such a crazy drill?), and frankly the distance he was working from I thought he was trying to tackle to mat in front of the instructor, not the instructor.

He also did a eye poke like thing as a defence against a rear naked choke, with the choke on, and that is when I called it a day and left. Such nonsense would just get a person seriously injured. I suspect I missed out on some excellent nonsense. I really should try and recall the guys name because I need to direct people as far away from him as possible.

I've seen some of the "Anti grappling" on YouTube and the like. I think it was Wing Chun or similar. Coming from a guy who wrestled for a good 10 years and assisted coaching the sport (me), absolute nonsense.

Avoiding a takedown is all about footwork. Angling and sprawling. What the arms are doing is important, but if you're not moving the right way, nothing else matters. I guess you could say the same thing for anything else too though, such as punching, kicking, etc.

During my time wrestling (and coaching it), very, very few people we're successful in taking me down with single and double leg takedowns. I've got pretty short legs, so that counts for some of it, but I always taught everyone willing to listen that it's all that initial reaction, pivoting (but your pivot foot isn't planted firmly), and sprawling in one fluid motion. If you can react and pivot/angle quickly and effectively, you don't even need to fully sprawl where your weight is fully on their shoulders/upper back. I got to the point where I'd move and push my opponent out of the way and get behind them before they knew what happened. I used the same basic thing in football; playing defensive line, I'd end up jumping over offensive linemen who tried to chop block me.

I know I just made myself sound like I'm some unbeatable wrestler. There's a lot more to wrestling than avoiding singles and doubles.

But what those anti grappling guys are doing is so far off it's beyond comical. They know absolutely nothing about what's really entailed. And the guys shooting the takedowns are even worse. You wouldn't be able to pull off the defenses those guys are teaching against an older elementary school wrestler who's been at it for more than a season or two, tops. Far too much momentum coming at you to be able to grab someone's head while sticking fingers in their eyes and stop them, especially without moving your feet.

[bushido_man96]

I would tend to agree with you, JR. The guys who practice doing takedowns all the time are the guys who get good at defending them.

[Alan Armstrong]

Learned this from my father. He would joke with my friends that he could kill them with one finger. Those that didn't believe him... he would do this.

I have used the "index finger up the nostril technique". Pinning one of them to the the wall while he was seated then he ended up on his tip toes. It worked very well while his buddy looked on with disbelief. I asked him "the buddy" if he would like some of this too, he just looked away.

They were both tripping girls up on there way to the ladies toilets, in a bar. I wasn't working in the bar. I was just dating one of the girls they tripped up.

[CTTKDKing]

The defense techniques in Sho Bin Ju are built off American Kenpo, with some modifications and some of the more useless defenses removed. That said there's an American Kenpo technique out of Ed Parker's system which was removed from the Sho Bin Ju system called Striking Whip. For those who don't know Kenpo defenses are done like One Step Sparring techniques in TKD and Karate.

This defense involved an attacker who was charging at you as if to tackle you at the waist. You were to receive them with your front palm and back-fist around to the back of the head. You then bring that hand back around front, and lift the attacker by the nose, exposing the throat, pulling the first hand back and panther striking the throat.

We learned the removed techniques more as a joke than anything, but this one was so directly ineffective that it always stuck with me.