Kids Self-Defense: Strike Against Straight Punch

Video Transcript

"In self defense for kids it's a real possibility that you might get attacked from a strike from the front. And as that strike comes, it's real important to step off the line. It's simply moving to the side letting the attack go by you. You can use your knee as an effective striking implement to help offset and finish off that attack giving you more time to escape. As the attack comes, you want to use your hands and deflect it and then you're going to use your knee and you're going to go right at the base of the thigh or right in the middle of the thigh right at the seam of the pants using your knee, you're going to go through it. You're going to like stick to it and go through and that's going to be extremely painful and it's going to disrupt their balance enough where you're going to enough time to escape. So as the punch comes, you're going to use your hands, perry them away, use your knee right at the thigh and then you escape. I'm going to do it. She parries out away, use that knee right there in the thigh and then she escapes. So when you have an attack coming from the front, the idea is to get out of the way and then use your knee to get them in the thigh to help you give you even more time to escape."