Strikes and Fending with a Carbine

Here's another important tip from the Personal Defense Network. A couple alternative strikes that we have in addition to our four fundamental strikes with the long gun. With these two alternative strikes, we're gonna look at using if we have the M4, M16, AR15 type firearm, we're gonna look at using either the front sight post or the actual tip of the muzzle. And these strikes are utilized for lateral threats. Maybe I come around a corner, maybe someone rapidly approaches me and I don't have time to orient, but I want to be combative. I wanna defend myself as rapidly as possible. So from the mountain position, the first strike, let's say we're gonna use the front sight post for this one. I'm going to look and find where my target is. I'ma step in the direction of the target and strike with that front sight post. If I don't have a front sight post, it's flipped down or the firearm that I'm utilizing doesn't have a big front sight post like this. I'm just gonna use the tip of my muzzle. It could be somewhat of a rake where I rake that front muzzle across the highline or face of my attacker. Mainly utilize as some type of distraction. It's not a real powerful strike, but it's enough to back them off make them reconsider their actions they're taking against me. So once again, to the left I look and find the target that I'm gonna strike using good foot work. I'm gonna step towards that target and rake or strike with that muzzle. To my right, if there's a target to my right I'm gonna look and locate them. I'm gonna step in the direction of the strike utilizing that front sight post or the tip of my muzzle. Either impacting them with it or raking it across their face. Again, it's not a super powerful strike but it's enough to distract or disorient them providing me with time to transition to an alternative measure, maybe then going to lethal force or a different striking methodology. Maybe utilizing one of those front muzzle or front side strikes provides me with the time to switch to that spear grip and utilize more impact on the target, with one of the better strikes. One additional consideration to utilizing either the spear grip or that bayonet grip is the ability it provides me to fend with that long gun. And what I mean by fending is, by utilizing one of these grips I now have essentially a shield in front of my body. So if this long gun has a stoppage or malfunction and I have an attacker that might have a contact tool, contact weapon, and they're trying to stab me, they're trying to hit me with some type of object instead of just keeping this long gun in my shoulder and trying to block or poke them with my muzzle by switching to one of these grips. I now have this shield that I can fend with. I can block with and after doing so after effectively fending off my attackers contact weapon attack, I can now retaliate and re counter with one of my fundamental strikes. Let's look at training the alternative strikes and fending with the padded carbine and a focus mitt. First, I'm gonna have Robert actually do the alternative strikes, the muzzle, tip of the muzzle rake or strike or front sight strike just in the air a couple of times, so he gets the movement down. So Rob, let's have you go to the left first. So a threat presents itself in the left. You look and find them and your rig. Good, now we'll go to the right. Excellent, all right. Noticed, you can hear the stomp that Rob's making with his foot, so that he can maximize his impact power. Now let's try that with the focus mitt. So we start off with him, since I'm over here, we'll start off with Rob coming to the right with that first strike. Now the pad holder, it's very important. If you're gonna work with a partner, whenever holding a focus mitts like this, for stuff like this. And if you don't have your hand on the carbine and you have a hand free, I wanna try to support the pad with my other hand so that when Rob hits it, it doesn't come back and hit me in the face. All right, Rob. So I'm gonna get set up, when I say go, locate the target and then strike it. Go. Excellent, one more time. Go. Good, now you can hear the power that he's got there. If this pad wasn't there, even with the padded carbine, that's a pretty good shot. And again, the emphasis is to distract or give me something to think about real quick, so that you can then transition to another force option. Let's try it over here on the left. Same drill Rob. Go. Go. Excellent, try to turn the carbine a little bit more over so that the ejection forts up. Excellent, yeah. So that way you can maximize if the long gun's got that front sight post that's what he's trying to poke me with. Go, there you go. Good, a little bit more stomp with your foot. Go. Excellent, very good. So these are quick look at drilling, those alternative strikes. Let's take a look at the fending now. The fact is that this is a great tool to defend myself from any kind of contact tool, whether it's a knife, whether it's a stick, anything else. Of course, knowing whether I have an AR, that I actually have the extension of a charging handle, maybe an optic, maybe it's a hunting rifle with a big scope or the magazine well, to give some extra distance to protect the hand, is also a great benefit. Excellent, exactly. So why don't you switch into the spear grip? Start off with the spear grip. Okay, Rob, we're gonna start off now. We're gonna use an improvised training tool here and work on that fending and blocking. So I'm gonna act like this is maybe a contact weapon and go for Rob's midline. You know, like a stab. Okay Rob, what I want you to do is just fend with it and hollow out. Try to create as much distance away from the contact weapon as possible. We're gonna start off a little slow and build up speed. Excellent, all right now, one more time Rob. This time without smashing me too hard, follow up with with one of the four combative strikes. Okay? Good. Excellent, good. So if you're gonna work this with a training partner, it might be a good idea to have that focus mitt in your support hand so that when Rob follows up with a strike, he's got a good viable target and you're not gonna get hurt. Now we're gonna look at some highline attacks with our improvised training tool. Rob, we're gonna go nice and slow. I'm just coming in, work on your block. Good. Forehand backhand. Good fending. Now follow up with a strike, but just go nice and easy, okay? So I'm coming in here one and there's some type of follow-up strike and two, follow up strike. Okay Rob, switch to bayonet grip, while I grab the focus mitt real quick. Okay. Now that Chris is gonna switch the focus mitt. While I go to my bayonet grip, I'm gonna be able to follow up with my strikes after my fending, a lot harder. All right, Rob let's now you've switched to a different grip, before you were the spear grip. We're gonna do the same exact thing but now you've got the bayonet grip. So I'm gonna start off with this low line attack. I want you to fend and once I get the focus mitt up, give it a good strike. Set? Set. Try the cross face. So you're gonna block and then cross face. Set? Excellent. All right, let's try a couple highline strikes. Excellent. There you go. Nice, nice. Drilling these strikes with pressure again, as Rob said earlier isn't pretty, but it instills those skills into us under live conditions. If you found this video helpful, make sure to post a comment at the PersonalDefenseNetwork.com.