Straight Punch Techniques for Krav Maga

Video Transcript

"This is Steve “The Dragon” Jimenez and in this segment we are going to go over straight punches. There are three different types of straight punches that we have. There are either straight punches making contact with the fist or with the palm and heel strike, all the mechanics in between are the same, but just now you can either make contact with the fist with these two knuckles here or you can make contact with the heel, the palm or the heel here. In our straight punches, our weapon in Krav Maga, all are weapons always lead first. The weapon always goes and then the body goes behind it. You must stay squared out my chin is down, shoulders are slightly forward and I am in a very relaxed position, the punch goes out. It goes out loose and relaxed, on impact make contact. On impact we close our fist and tighten up and we make contact with the top three knuckles. Here we try to keep our fist in a vertical position as if you are holding a coffee mug, that is real quick, here making contact. Notice that shoulder is up and the chin is slightly down, so I can protect the face during combat. From here, I am going to rotate, when I rotate my body, my entire body, my hip goes into the stride. The one hand is punching and the other is always defending, guard is always up. You either have a full guard or you have a half guard either one that was a straight punch. I did mention that we have a palm heel strike as well. The thing about the palm heel strike it eliminates the one joint, it is actually a stronger strike and it can also eliminate a possible injury from the joint, maybe tweaking the wrist. So, if you want to be a little safer, maybe if it is a woman who has nails, they cannot make a tight fist so the nail do not dig into the palm of the hand, you can actually strike with the palm here. Every time we strike, we strike into different areas. We are striking here, I am going to use both strikes, here, here, here, here, here, here."