High Percentage

Web of hand blow, Bear swat, leopard paw, phoenix eye, we are in the age of variety where everyone is trying to find something unique about themselves. People are replacing a good right cross to the jaw for weird techniques that we see other people doing but not sure of it’s real world efficiency, it was ok at first, but then people proceed to kept asking other people that “might” have done them before to seek the answer, turns out they come up with insecure conclusion where they believe they know what they are doing but they actually don’t! You can’t afford to have doubts in your technique.

What is high percentage? High percentage are technique where the success rate is high. An example is a straight palm heel strike, easy to teach and easy to execute, you can bash your enemy with the same hand on any area on the head multiple times, you can also use it to drive his skull on different objects, the fingers could also be jammed into his eyes if he gets close. Compare this to a slap hook, which is also effective but not high percentage, the reason being you can’t retract to hit again, and it’s unlikely to be effective if you teach this to a beginner since it will for sure become nothing but a wild swing under stress.

Now see this scenario:
You notice a aggressive individual, he is moving towards you, you hit him with a SHARP palm heel strike, he staggers you then proceed to MOVE IN with MAXIMUM aggression and bang in once more with the same hand HARD, he lurches in and grapples with you, you stick your finger in his fucking eyes with the same hand, hit him a few times with the other hand using the palm heel again, dragging him to a wall while using your fingers in his eyes as leverage, in a fast and violent motion you smash his skull on the wall, he resists! NOW you are GETTING fucking mad, you used a secondary attack to aid your initial attack, you bite him hard on the ear to make him push you away, he screams and cover his ear, now you are back in striking zone, slam in your palm heel strikes HARD while having the “luxury” of him banging his head on the wall each time u connects, you see the space and you used a huge elbow to drop him, he falls to the ground , if you see him move, give him a big fucking soccer kick to end the job.

See how a single technique like the palm heel strike can do? Can you bang your web of hand onto your opponent multiple times mid fight? Can you bear swat in grappling range? Can you push on the advantage and repeatly hit with the same technique with a hook effectively? Now I am not selling you how good the palm heel strike is, but please give something a thought yourself before going out and copy what everyone does. Quite a few techniques might have good results in training but falls a apart during a real altercation.

Sometimes a right hand, simple gouges and bites line up with some good old stomps and soccer kicks to the balls or head with a WILL of violence, a good does of aggression will do you much better then the mumbo jumbos. Not saying you shouldn’t do other stuff. But don’t get too excited.

Think but don’t think too much, just fucking whack him.

Cheers Loki another great article! short and to the point... nice work- Richie

Richard Grannon