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sjwsti:
A front snap/stomp kick is an excellent technique to work. Its easy to do and easy to practice and can be very effective.

Consider that the bad guy comes at you full force, you throw a front kick but his momentum is too great and you are knocked down to your back. Here is a drill that can be practiced both dry and live to help with this.

Drill goes like this - Fall back to the ground : Now this can be done several ways. If you have never practiced falling you can squat and simply fall backwards from there. Keep your chin tucked to prevent your head from hitting the ground. Arms go out to your sides to slap the ground just before your body makes contact with it (if you throw your arms behind you to stop your fall you will hurt yourself). Padding helps but isnt absolutely necessary. If you know how to fall correctly this is done from a standing position.

As soon as you hit the ground your knees and legs come up and you kick them back and forth, imagining that you are striking at your opponents knees keeping him off of you. This is called a bicycle kick.

At a point of your choosing draw your holstered weapon and fire, or simulate firing at the bad guy. Make sure your legs are out of the way and you dont sweep them on the draw.

Then you get up (there is a right and a wrong way to do this) and do your after action drill.

This can be done on your own, with a partner, live and dry. We have done this drill live, actually being pushed off your feet to the ground by a partner (with ground pads) Your partner gets the heck out of the way while you bicycle kick and, on command, draw and fire several shots.

I will try and put a short video together demonstrating this.

-Shawn

20nickels:
A good reason not to use SOB holsters BTW.  Where do you train at Shawn?  Sounds like fun.

sjwsti:
Its just a small group that gets together when we can. Very informal, but everyone goes hard and takes it seriously. We each bring back what we have seen from various schools and instructors and try it out. Unfortunately there arent many schools around here that integrate firearms, knives and empty hand skills all together. You can find schools that train each skill individually, but then its up to you to put it all together. In my Advanced Pistol classes I always show some type of empty hand/combative transition to pistol technique because its hard to find anyplace else that does that. I know Signal 88 does, and they are very good BTW, not sure about anyone else.


- Shawn

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