There aren’t many people that leave the house during the day or at night that intend to get into a street fight. There are some that do but those people are few and far between as the average Joe has no intentions of getting into a physical altercation…EVER. Even rarer are the life threatening or life changing situations where a person may have to defend themselves because their life is quite literally at risk.

There are those instances when this happens and what happens when you are in a situation that absolutely requires you to fight for your life? Well, neither www.mixedmartialarts.com nor myself promote street fighting or physical acts of violence in any form or fashion but there are those occasions that arise which simply require that you defend yourself or you may, in fact, lose your life. These are situations where your safety and your life depends on your knowledge and ability to perform in a self-defense situation…enter Nick Drossos.

Oftentimes; in any altercation, the person that strikes first has the upper hand and thus a greater chance of coming out of a physical altercation unharmed with the ability to turn a seemingly unmanageable situation into a manageable one. Nick has intimate self-defense knowledge and provides incredible insight into a great first pre-emptive strike…the hammer fist!

In the expert words of Nick: Yes, indeed the hammer fist can be a very powerful knockout strike! You can see why by looking at this video. The most important part is the set-up. Setting up your first strike is crucial. You want to lift your hands up in a passive stance. From there, you can deliver your strike. The hand leaves first and the body follows immediately after. Remember, you don’t want to telegraph your intentions.

See how it can be done on the Bob Dummy by watching the clip. Practice this strike and you will have a secret weapon in your arsenal.

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Jacob C. Stevens is a lifelong athlete and cerebral martial arts enthusiast who is also skilled in the art of linguistic manipulation, his published work, Afterthoughts and Handgrenades, can be found here…