Kids Self-Defense: Strike Against Bear Hug

Video Transcript

"In kid safety, often times you might get grabbed from behind and an important or effective striking implement would be your little knuckle. It doesn't seem like much but it can be extremely effective. If you were getting grabbed from behind as if somebody were going to try to pick you up, use your little knuckle. You just extend your middle knuckle and you're going to attack the back of their hand. This is a very sensitive area. You're going to attack it here and then it's like sticky hands, you're just going to stick to the wrist or in back of the hand and you're going to go down. And it's going to rake across the back of the hand. You apply a little pressure at the same time and it really is a little uncomfortable. Downright painful to some. You attack it, you go down, they're going to escape and then you can escape. So let me demonstrate here. So as she goes down and around, or down across the back of the hand, it applies enough pressure and it's uncomfortable enough where they're going to be knee jerk reaction and it's going to allow you to escape from a bear hug from behind."