action to your assailant's target area, you must never loose sight of him and you should be constantly alert for a continuation of his attack.10 Use discretion in dealing out punishment to any assailant. Fit the degree of punishment to the situation.
Chapter One
CLUB AND STICK ATTACKS
ASSAILANTS armed with clubs or sticks often attack with single- or double-handed grippings, making use of overhead, backhand, diagonal, or haymaker strokes as well as jabbing, poking, or blocking tactics. These methods in combination can be used with extreme effectiveness against an untrained person. Occasionally, assailants working in pairs or small groups will use the weapon-holding assailant to distract the intended victim while one or more of the others of the group effect a sneak attack. This situation is often reversed, that is, the unarmed assailants will distract while the armed ones sneak attack.
Being attacked by an assailant using a club or stick or an object used similarly, requires a proper response by you if you wish to avoid serious injury or even death. The situations are extremely complex and dangerous and may allow you no mistakes.
The person expertly trained in karate techniques is able to meet such situations with confidence, but not without difficulty. Keeping that in mind, you as an average citizen must develop appropriate responses as shown in this chapter. They have been prepared for your capabilities and to cover the minimum necessary principles to effectively meet common eventualities connected with armed single and multiple assailants.
All responses described in this chapter must be practiced with partners. Begin slowly, so that you have complete knowledge of what you are trying to do. Gradually speed up the attack situations and your responses in meeting them. Seek to build an automatic response by frequent daily practices several times a week.
Practice in normal daily garb and do not limit yourself to smooth, flat surfaces such as a gym floor. Try to practice on grass, gravel, paved and unpaved surfaces: surfaces that will bring you closer to the actual conditions likely to be encountered in a real emergency.
The responses in this chapter are given in terms of one side, right or left, but in many instances the other side may be practiced by simply reversing the instructions.
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