Chopping Down the Tree

What are your five favorite strikes to the legs? How would you take out someone’s base? Today in class we looked at several different tools for chopping down the tree – striking to the legs so that our assailant is immobilized.

No doubt everyone has their own ideas about how to strike low but my five favorites are: roundhouse to the side of the knee, toe out kick to the shin, front kick to the groin, back of the hand slap to the groin and a knee to the side of the thigh.