Gouging, biting and headbutting are illegal in the ring, but they're perfectly acceptable in a street situation. True self defense technique are to brutal for any sort of sporting application. Unlike tournament fighting there are no agreements on the street as to what so called dirty techniques can or can not be used when one person attacks another. The attacker is not going to ask you if you are going to fight fair.
When you are attacked on the streets you may find you are fighting for your life and you must use whatever so called dirty techniques you can to survive. Many people who practice the martial arts think that the kicks, punches and throws they learn is all they will need to prevail in a street confrontation. When an attacker has a arm around your throat and is threatening you with a knife and the fighting techniques that you learned in the dojo are useless and will not get you out of the situation what will you do?
Use a chomping bite to the wrist and a smashing headbutt to their nose could be the answer for your release. Once you are free you can turn and quickly poke him in the the eyes and make your escape, this is survival of the smartest.
Yeah I know that having to resort to eye gouging, and other dirty fighting techniques are looked upon as not fair, but there is nothing fair about being attacked and your life put at risk by a punk who is out to rob you, or even worse, take your life to prove something to his gang members. The facts are when you are attacked and you must defend yourself, it is all about you or him, what I mean is someone is walking away from the confrontation and the other may be on their way to the hospital or worse the morgue.
The self defense techniques that you learned in a self defense class are good for using in the class and tournaments where there are rules. The techniques are controlled and the so called dirty techniques are not used because for them to work someone needs to get hurt. The facts are most good techniques used for self defense on the street are illegal to use in tournament sparring. The problem is that these "dirty" techniques can not be practice because they need to be pulled to avoid injury to the student and the full effectiveness of the technique is lost.
Because of the emphasis on clean techniques that can be used safely in sparring, many students and instructors totally overlook or ignore some of the best street defense techniques known to man. You need to train and be aware of how to use hair pulling, gouging, biting and headbutting techniques, because any one of these techniques could make the different between you walking away from an attack or you being carried away on a stretcher.
Many martial artist trains exclusively for one on one sparring in a controlled environment with rules and regulations, but fighting for your life is not a game. You must be prepared to use what ever it takes to disable or even kill an attacker in order to save your life, or the life of a loved one.
Hair pulling or grabbing is often referred to as Chancery in Western martial arts and boxing and is illegal in both sports. Hair pulling techniques can prove most valuable in a self defense situation. Yanking on an attackers hair can be quite painful and can help you gain release from a headlock, a rear restraint like a bear hug, or escape from a prone position when a attacker is straddling you as you lay on the ground.
You can use the hair grab as a way to hold an assailant head still as you get ready to deliver a blow to the head such as a palm smash, punch, headbutt, elbow smash or an eye jab. Grabbing the hair works will in the dark when it is difficult to judge the distance for a strike to the head. By grabbing his hair, you can steady his head and be able to judge the location of his jaw or temple quite accurately without having to see it.
If you are behind your attacker you can take him down by grabbing a handful of hair and jerking back as you kick the back of his knees. You can use the hair grab to pull your attacker over furniture, into a plate glass window or a brick wall, as well as holding his head for a headbutt or a rising knee smash to the face. If he has a beard with any length to it grab it and pull, where the hair goes the body follows like down a flight of stairs or into a ditch and so on.
The bone along the top ridge of the skull is extremely strong and makes a good weapon for headbutting by using the front or the back of the head to strike with. Some Asian and Western fighting arts have included the use of headbutting in their fighting styles, but the technique is seldom used during sparring matches. Old Chinese and Korean masters could drive nails into boards with their foreheads. The English even went as far as creating a system called knutting based on headbutting techniques.
Headbutting is an excellent close in weapon to use during grappling attempts or front or rear bear hugs. Headbutting works well when one is on the ground being straddled or during the act of rape. Just grab his hair and jerk his head down into your forehead repeatedly, striking his nose, jaw, temple and eye sockets. Avoid striking his mouth, if you can, to keep from getting cut by his teeth, although a strong headbutt to the mouth will split open his lips and knock out his teeth.
There is no need to strengthen your forehead by headbutting trees and concrete blocks, your head it is plenty strong enough and all you will do is get a headache. However you can practice thrusting your forehead into bean bags, or sandbags, hung from the ceiling to help you in your control and accuracy of your head thrust.
You should practice thrusting at the bean bag in a furry of 3,4,or 5 thrusts in rapid succession concentrating on focus and follow through. If you practice your head thrusts, when it comes time to use it, you won't feel the strikes as much and you will be able to control your strikes better.
When it comes to biting we humans are not endowed with the teeth that would make our teeth formidable weapons, never the less biting can be used to divert an attacker's attention, inflict severe pain, or help gain release from a specific hold. When you are attacked from the rear and your attacker puts his hand over or near your mouth you should be able to maneuver the upper or lower jaw enough to be able to get a good bite on the attacker's pinky or index finger. Chomping down hard on a finger or wrist could be enough of a distraction to allow you to break free, so you can escape
Biting can help you to disarm your attacker when you are attacked from the rear and they have a weapon to your throat. By pulling down on the hand that hold the weapon to your throat just a few inches you can bite down on his wrist hard enough to cause him to drop the blade and release his hold of you.
If you find yourself on the ground being raped wait for the first opening and sink your teeth into the attackers throat, testicles, tongue, or grab an ear and bite it off. It is not pretty but if you know that when he is finished taking his pleasure there is more hurt and pain coming what do you have to lose?
Another so called dirty technique is gouging of the eyes and it can result in watering of the eyes resulting in difficulty seeing or even in permanent blindness. Gouging is done with the thumbs placed over the eyes, using one or both thumbs, and is useful against someone choking you from the front, or when they start pushing you. To gouge the eyes grab the head with both hands fingers wrapping around to the back off the head, palms over or slight above the ears and the thumbs placed over the eyes and apply pressure to the eyeball squeezing the eyes back into the eye socket.
You can also grab the head as mentioned above and stick both thumbs in to the mouth on both sides of the lips between the teeth and the cheek and pull the cheeks back towards the ears ripping the attackers cheeks. You can practice on bean bags, sandbags or even get creative and use lumps of clay shaped into a simulation of a face with eyes and have at it.
Contrary to popular belief dirty fighting just does not come natural to most people. We are subconsciously socialized to believe fighting should be "fair" even though we intellectually realize there aren't any rules for the street criminal.
There is an old maxim that states; You will fight as you have been trained to fight. If this is true, then it becomes imperative for the martial artists to include "dirty" techniques in their training. The facts are your attacker will use every trick in the book and he will probably assume that you are the type of victim who won't resort to using ruthless methods.
Whether you end up in the emergency room or morgue instead of him may very well depend upon your willingness to practice and use the types of effective and dirty techniques covered in this article and other articles
On the street the only people who talk about dirty techniques are the victims. Think about it! Remember when it comes down to it, sometimes, the only thing standing between you and survival are your street smarts.
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