Five Key Actions

FIVE KEY ACTIONS

 

All the martial arts, with a few exceptions, are based on five key actions or techniques that are the centre points to all the fighting styles.
 

 

These five key techniques are striking, (punching), kicking, blocking, throwing, (or take down methods), and controlling, (arm locks and restraining holds)  These five key actions are the very nature of the fighting arts with more focus placed on one or more items over the others depending on the nature or structure of the fighting style in question.

Based on a self-defence and not on a competitive sport combat situation the following example is to give you a basic idea as to how you would respond to an attacker using what we would term self-defence methods that involves all the five action modes of the martial arts.

 

Imagine the situation of being in the street and someone approaches you and attempts to hit you in someway. As they move forward you move back to avoid being hit and then using your arm to stop or deflect the attackers punch, (the block), you then throw a counter strike to their body area with your foot, (the kick), and then taking their arm in a lock, (the control), you then swiftly use a sweep like action with your foot to their leading leg, (the take down), which unbalances them and makes them fall to the ground. To conclude this physical conflict you would then use a hand strike, (the punch), to finish them off.

 

In a matter of only a few short seconds you have blocked the punch, kicked them, controlled them with an arm lock and thrown them to the floor by using a take down method and then ended the fight with a punch of your own.