RAINING CLAW     (Front: Right uppercut punch)

1.  While Standing Naturally, with feet together, step back toward 6 o'clock with your left foot into a right neutral bow (facing 12 o'clock) and deliver a right inward downward block to the forearm of your opponent's right uppercut.  Your left hand is guarding high to protect your head area. 

2.  Shuffle forward (push-drag) and immediately shoot a left inward overhead claw to your opponent's face while your right elbow stays close to your body.  (This strike may bring your opponent's head forward and down.)

3.  Have your right fist circle clockwise and execute a right vertical back knuckle thrust to your opponent's face (Apply Object Obscurity by tracking your right punch up and along your left wrist, releasing your claw just before your right punch arrives).  Your left hand now checks low.  (This action should snap your opponent's head back and away.)

4.  Have your left hand (which is positionally checking at the sternum), execute a thrusting heel palm strike to your opponent’s chin, and convert into a left ricocheting five-finger eye thrust.  Your right hand now check in place of your left hand.

5.  Immediately convert your left five-finger thrust into a left vertical downward five-finger claw to your opponent’s face.  As your five-finger claw tracks its way down on your opponent’s face, execute a right half fist strike (palm up) to your opponent’s throat.  Time both moves so that they simultaneously counteract each other.  Continue the motion of your left hand and drop it down on top of your right elbow as a Cocking Check (like “Five Swords”).

6.  Shift your left foot toward 4:30 (up the circle) as your left hand claws to the left side of your opponent’s face (from inside out) and stops.  Simultaneous with this action have your right hand circle counterclockwise as you execute a right outward back knuckle strike to your opponent’s solar plexus.  Have your right arm circle on the inside of your left arm.

7.  Again shift your left foot toward 1:30 as your right back knuckle (after the hit) slides along the left rib cage of your opponent, continues under your opponent’s left arm while your left hand checks your opponent’s left elbow.  Immediately execute a left armlock on your opponent with your right arm.  As you drop down into a right wide kneel stance, facing 6 o’clock, force your opponent to bend over.

8.  Have your left foot step forward toward 6 o’clock as your left hand slides along your opponent’s left forearm, ending at his left wrist.  At this point begin to place great pressure on the armlock.

9.  Shift your right foot clockwise (180 degrees) toward 6 o’clock (into a left neutral bow, facing 12 o’clock) as your right hand assists your left hand in grabbing your opponent’s left wrist and yanks his left arm toward you to dislocate his left shoulder, as your then force your opponent to the ground (face down).

10.  Leap counterclockwise into a left close kneel stance, facing 9 o’clock, and execute a right knee drop to the back of your opponent's neck while taking full advantage of Gravitational Marriage.

11.  Using your opponent’s neck as a springboard, leap clockwise, facing 3 o’clock and execute a left back heel stomp to your opponent's head while again taking full advantage of Gravitational Marriage.

12.  From the Point of Contact of your left stomp, execute a left front crossover, and cover out twice toward 4:30
Self Defense Techniques
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