This will instantly get him off balance and you can easily subdue him.


ADVANCED PRACTICE IN THE CHIN SHOVE
Compare your position with each illustration until you have learnt the applied mechanics of the trick and can get a stronger man off his balance and so discount his strength by scientific shoving.
This method enables you to commence your study of this course with the same safety and accuracy of movement as if you were being carefully grounded in first principles by a painstaking teacher.
In the early stages of practice it is necessary to pause between the counts "ONE" and "TWO". Otherwise you may inadvertently give your Assailant too severe a tap on the chin. When first shoving Assailant's head back, do it very slowly.
For advanced practice, discard the counts and both attack at the word, "GO", Assailant with the waisthold, opponent with the chin shove.
Assailant will attack slowly at first, but as opponent becomes more expert with the chin shove will attack with increasing swiftness.
There must be no finessing with the arms. Assailant, who attacks with waisthold, knows that opponent's arms are coming inside his, but must not try to parry them. He must maintain the original direction of attack. His one endeavor must be to get opponent firmly around the waist before opponent can get the chin shove.
In a real fight it would not be necessary to place left hand behind Assailant's back, a blow with the heel of the hand on his jaw is the best method.
This practice will enable you to develop the power to hit a hard blow when necessary, and will also train your eye and presence of mind so that in an emergency you would act vigorously.


THE BEST DEFENSE IS ATTACK
The best defense is attack. In other words, keep your opponent so busy defending himself that he has no time to attack you.
"Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in
"Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee."
In actual combat, do not wait until he attacks you, but get the jump on him.
But the best way to learn a trick is to practice it on a man who is attacking you.
If you practice it on an unresisting opponent, his body is relaxed and you do not meet with the proper resistance.
On the other hand, if you tell him to resist you every time, he will soon be able to prevent you getting the grip and that makes it impossible for you to practice.
Get your opponent to attack you as instructed. This not only provides you with the proper resistance, but reproduces as nearly as possible the conditions under which you would actually have to use the tricks.
Furthermore, it trains your reflex action and makes you instinctively do the right trick.
This feature of the course makes it unique for by this method you will be able to do the tricks better in two or three weeks than you would under years of the old system.


LESSON 7
This lesson teaches you --
The Nose Push.
The psychology of the Nose Push.
When to use the knee kick.
The escape from the chin shove.
Name of Partner Date Practice Commenced Nose Push Escape from Chin Shove
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Place a check mark against each trick each day you practice it.


NOSE PUSH
Never allow yourself to be seized around the waist, but as you may be taken by surprise and find yourself in this grip the following trick should be practiced, so that you will have a definite and effective defense.


"ONE"
Stand still and allow Assailant to seize you with the waisthold, his chin on your chest and bend your back until you are almost falling, holding you so close that you cannot use the knee kick.


"TWO"
Clench fist with thumb jutting out. Insert end of thumb (not the nail) beneath Assailant's nose just where the nose joins the face, so that the thumb presses partly against his upper lip and partly against the nose bone where it joins the face.

There is a very sensitive spot here, which you can locate by experimenting on your own nose. [EN1 ]
If he turns his nose to your right use your left thumb. If he turns to the left, use your left thumb. If he buries his nose in your chest, bring up both thumbs and dig for it.


"THREE"
Push Assailant's head back until he releases his waisthold.

Do not touch his face with your hand. The only point of contact is your thumb. Otherwise you decrease the pressure your thumb exerts on the vital spot.
Do this very slowly at first in order not to hurt partner's nose.
His nose is not pushed but the sensitive spot where nose meets face should be pressed upwards in the direction of his ears.
Pushing at this angle makes it easy to get his head back.


"FOUR"
Bring your knee up into his stomach making the effort from the Stahara.

In practice stop three inches from the mark at which you aim.


THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NOSE PUSH
When a man has seized a woman with criminal intent and endeavors to carry her off, an escape is easy if the thumb be pressed not beneath his nose, but into his eyes. [EN2 ]
Such a course would be justifiable only where life is in danger. If you are unarmed you have a right to take such action as is necessary to save yourself.
Making a mental note of this, however, is not giving yourself adequate training in self-defense. You might forget to do it. A woman would be apt to lose her head and scream aimlessly.
Sticking your fingers in a man's eye is too dangerous a trick to try on one another but the Nose Push may be practiced with safety. You will thus be made familiar with such an attack, and will think coolly and act instinctively.
A system that merely tells you to stick your finger in a man's eye does not give you a proper education in self-defense.
Your reflex action must be trained so that you will act instinctively in the moment of danger.


WHEN TO USE THE KNEE KICK
If you are attacked by a thug with a knife or pistol or a piece of lead piping or a sandbag, or if your life is in danger and you are unarmed, you are justified in defending yourself by attacking your Assailant's most vital spots -- his crotch or his eyes.
Under no other circumstances would you be justified in resorting to these foul, unspeakable methods. It is unthinkable that a fair man in a fair fight or even an unfair fight, would ever stain his honor by such a dishonorable action.
The same thing applies to women, only in the last extremity would it be defensible for her to use such tactics.
However, there are unfortunately many instances where the most dastardly attacks are perpetrated and the victims are defenseless because they do not know how to use the weapons with which nature has provided them.
In such an instance you would be accessory to your own death if you hesitated to disable or kill him, by the above methods.
You might have such a margin of superiority in strength and skill that you could take him prisoner by a jujitsu grip or knock him out by one of the legitimate blows to his jaw, neck, or solar plexus, and you must use the more humane method where possible.
But in the last analysis, the eyes and crotch are the vital spots and an attack on them is the first thing to do when it is a question of life or death.
It is often asked -- "Instead of that trick you are teaching would it not be simpler to raise the knee and kick him?" The answer is unhesitatingly, "YES." If there is to be any kicking, kick first. But in the general run of things you would not be justified in kicking and must be trained in more honorable methods, reserving the kick for an emergency.
These other tricks must be practiced faithfully because they give you presence of mind and an ability to use your body correctly.


ESCAPE FROM CHIN SHOVE
Assailant attacks you with chin shove, his right hand on your chin, his left hand round your waist.
If you stand with feet on the same line you will be immediately unbalanced and unable to resist.


"ONE"
As he takes hold, step back with either foot and take a balanced position.
Bring your left elbow close to your side and palm of left hand onto Assailant's forearm.



"TWO"
Assailant pushes your had back and pulls your waist in.
Throw your head back quicker than it is pushed, knocking up his right arm with your left arm.
Keep your eyes on Assailant.


"THREE"
Instantly regain your balance and shove Assailant's chin back with your right hand.


"FOUR"
Make Assailant stagger slowly backwards. Bring up your knee with full force, stopping three inches from the target.
This practice will make you dexterous in using both hands and feet in a fight and trains you to make your every movement for the purpose of unbalancing opponent.
Keep your balance and make the effort from the Stahara.


ESCAPE FROM CHIN SHOVE
Understand in a real fight you would not shove but would hit your opponent so hard with the heel of your hand below his chin that you would knock him out.
Practice of this trick will give you the power to deliver such a blow and also the presence of mind to use it.
Also without hitting it is possible to shove so hard that opponent is knocked out by the fall.
In practice go no further than unbalancing opponent with a slow shove.
The practice of this trick has greater advantages than merely teaching you a defense against this attack. It teaches you how to use your body quickly in a way that will be valuable in all attacks.
You do not pull his hand away from your chin but evade it by giving way. The effort is made with a swaying motion of the Stahara which keeps your balance.
Take the position of each of the five photos illustrating this trick, and compare your position with them.
Practice it slowly at first. Afterwards you will do it so quickly that an onlooker could not explain what you had done.
In a real fight you would knock Assailant's hand away, and counter, before he got you in the grip illustrated by fig. 38.


BALANCE AND MOMENTUM
Jujitsu tricks are done with great rapidity on an opponent who is usually moving just as quickly. You utilize the momentum of the opponent to unbalance and defeat him instead of relying on your own strength and weight.
If you try to master the two complicated problems of your opponent's BALANCE and MOMENTUM and at the same time make your legs and arms perform a complicated, unfamiliar feat, you are up against an intricate task in which progress is slow. This is why it takes so many years in Japan to learn jujitsu.
The system by which this book teaches is radically different. It eliminates the factor of MOMENTUM by causing the teacher to stand still until the student commences to use his body properly and until he understands how to unbalance his opponent.
When this stage is reached, the student's subconscious attends to the proper working of the arms and legs and to unbalancing opponent, leaving the active mind free to watch opponent's momentum.
The teacher now adds a little movement to the lesson and finally attacks the student swiftly.
As each student alternately takes the role of Instructor (or Assailant), he will stand stationary and allow his opponent (or pupil) to master the movements of arms and legs and to discover how to unbalance his Assailant.
He may then combine movement with his instructions and his pupil will readily learn to deal with the factor of momentum.


THE WAISTHOLD SERIES
When engaged in training thousands of men who knew nothing of wrestling and boxing and who would shortly be engaged in savage trench warfare, the most important thing was to teach them to deal their opponent a kick or blow in a vital spot.
Merely telling them of these blows was not sufficient. The untrained man would think of these tricks after the battle and would sadly exclaim: "Oh, if I had only done so-and-so."
They were first taught to kick with the whole weight of the body. Merely kicking with the muscles of the leg and thigh does not deliver a blow one-third as powerful as if you "put your Stahara" into it.
The waisthold series, consisting of:
waisthold, chin shove, nose push, and escape from chin shove,
gave them more actual practice in five minutes than half-an-hour of desultory wrestling would.
A class of a thousand men could be trained in these methods with the same precision, snap, and disciplinary effect as army disciplinary calisthenics, or setting-up exercises.
A scientific analysis of each trick enabled the movements to be directed from a platform, step by step, and the soldier learned the movements as quickly and correctly as if he were getting a personal lesson from the instructor.
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