Clenching your teeth will make you less likely to get a broken jaw if you’re punched.
Keep your elbow bent at a 30-45 degree angle in front of your face, and keep your hands up at all times. Extend the fist along with your elbow and shoulder, straightening your arm. Push your weight through your shoulder and into your arm, connecting the punch at the peak of your extension to get the most force for your hit.
If you’re taller, try to keep your opponent at a distance. Your longer limbs will allow you to strike over a distance that your opponent can’t cover. If you’re shorter, hurry up and get close. They’ll try to keep you at a distance to use their height to their advantage. If you’re faster, get in fast, strike fast, and get out fast. Do your fighting in effective bursts. If you’re slower, keep it simple. Make the opponent come to you, as opposed to chasing them. Know your strengths, and use them at the right time. One calculated move far outweighs a dozen uncalculated ones.
Stomp on their instep. Land your heel as hard as you can on the instep of your opponent’s foot and wait for them to yelp in pain. Do the backwards headbutt. Fling back your skull until you hit your opponent’s nose. They’ll let go of you after you’ve done the damage. Wring their fingers. Instead of grabbing their wrists, put your hands around all of his fingers and wring them until they give up.
You can mix fake attacks with real attacks so that the opponent becomes confused and can’t predict whether you’ll follow through with your moves.
Leaning in toward the punch instead of away will minimize the impact of the punch because your opponent will have less time to gain momentum.
Avoid holding your breath or you will have the wind knocked out of you. Instead, try exhaling slightly before the punch, which will naturally tighten your stomach.
After that, you’ve created enough distance and regained your balance, so you can try to kick your opponent in the groin or stomp on their feet.
If you tilt sideways enough, you may even make your opponent fall to the ground. Once you’ve got them down, you can try to pin them to the ground on their back.
Once you’ve kicked or hurt your opponent, making them spring back, roll to the side and then use your arms to support your body weight as you regain your footing. Continue looking at your opponent, even when you try to get up. You may think they’re hurt, but they can come right back at you while you’re still struggling to stand.
If they have you pinned to your back, they’ll be easily able to pin you down and punch you in the face. Avoid this maneuver at all costs.
Even if no one comes to your rescue, yelling can disorient your opponent and scare them into thinking someone else will come along.
Headbutt your opponent’s face. Use your forehead to slam your opponent across their nose. This can break their nose if you do it the right way. Poke their eyes with your fingers. This can cause excruciating pain and can blind and disorient your opponent for enough time for you to escape or cause more damage. Punch them in the nose. This is a highly effective place to cause some serious damage.
Punch your opponent in the back of the neck to make them blackout temporarily. Punch your opponent in the middle of their throat to cause damage to his airway.
Low-kick your opponent in the groin, knee, or abdomen. Kick them using the bottom of your foot. Just make sure to do it quickly and to stay on balance – you can easily be thrown off your game while you’re kicking. Knee your opponent in the groin. This is likely to stop them in their tracks.
