TRIPPING ARROW     (Front: Bear hug - arms free)

1.  Your opponent is applying a front bear hug with your arms free.  Step to your left with your left foot (toward 9 o’clock) into a horse stance (facing 12 o’clock) as you have your left hand grab your opponent’s left shoulder and pull it down to check his Height Zones.  This action will nullify your opponent’s leverage and thus prevent him from delivering a right or left knee kick.  Simultaneous with this action execute a right hooking inward horizontal heel palm strike to your opponent’s left jaw hinge.  (This can dislocate your opponent’s jaw as well as render him unconscious.)

2.  Immediately circle your right foot clockwise, around, and back of your opponent’s right leg (toward 3 o’clock) and buckle it by heavily stomping your right foot into a horse stance.  Make sure that your right hand circles counterclockwise with the aforementioned action and cocks at your right shoulder (palm up).

3.  Without hesitation, pivot to your left (toward 9 o’clock) into a left forward bow as your thrust your right heel palm strike to the jaw of your opponent.  This action will trip your opponent over your right leg.  Be sure to maintain you left hand grab on your opponent’s right arm.  (Your opponent should fall to the ground and onto his back.)

4.  With your opponent on his back (head toward 9 o’clock and feet toward 3 o’clock) and your left hand grab now at your opponent’s right wrist, thrusting a right heel stomp under your opponent’s chin.  (If your opponent turns from the momentum of the fall and slips out of your grasp, alter your target and execute a right stomp kick to your opponent’s right kidney or ribs.)

5.  With your left hand still grabbing your opponents right wrist, have your right foot plant to the left of his head, into a right close kneel stance toward 10:30 as you execute a left knee strike to your opponent’s sternum.

6.  Pivot counterclockwise and as you drop into a left close kneel stance, bury your right knee into his solar plexus, while executing a right two-finger poke to your opponents eyes.

7.  Release your left hand grab and while using your opponent’s body as a springboard, have your right knee bounce up from your opponent’s solar plexus, rotate your body clockwise and while in the air switch your right foot so that it plants to the left of your opponents left hip, as your left foot virtually plants back on the same spot.  Your body, at this point, is now facing 2 o’clock.  Immediately drop into a right close kneel stance (facing 2 o’clock) and bury your left knee into his abdomen.

8.  While it again using your opponent’s body as a springboard, have your left knee bounce up from your opponent’s abdomen, rotate your body counterclockwise and while in the air switch and plant your left foot to virtually where your right foot was planted - followed by your right foot planting (toward three o’clock) between your opponent’s knees.  Your body at this point is now facing 11 o’clock.  Immediately drop into a left close kneel stance (facing 11 o’clock) and bury your right knee into his groin.

9.  Spring into a right one-leg stance toward 1 o’clock (to the right of your opponents left leg) and immediately execute a left front crossover and cover out twice toward 1 o’clock.
Self Defense Techniques
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