FREE GUN FRIDAY: GIVEAWAY BERETTA AX A1 CARRY +500 ROUNDS OF AMMO Close [embedded text] The jab is not a forceful strike that can cause serious damage but it is quick and disruptive to your plans. Mike Tyson once said that “everyone has plans until they get punched in their face.” Although the jab won’t end the fight by itself, it will distract enough to allow you to continue with potentially fatal blows. There are many ways to deal with the jab. One option is to slip it. Today we will discuss the parry. RELATED STORYWATCH: How to Use the Four Main Types of Punches For Self-Defense Why Parry The Jab Because of its speed and effectiveness, the jab is common in boxing and MMA. Its simplicity of application is what gives it its speed. It shoots straight from the guard, much like a snake strike. It is not designed to cause a lot of damage. Instead, it targets your opponent’s face to make them vulnerable so that you can rain down blows like hailfire. The jab is a quick, linear attack that requires a fast, linear response. The parry is a direct and equal counter. While parrying the jab can be more difficult than the simple slip (we’ll talk about that in a future article), there are additional benefits. Your parry can help your opponent balance out if he over-commits to his jab. It will redirect his energy in an unexpected way. The parry is easy to perform and does not result in any damage. How to Parry a Jab. Your opponent throws a jab from a standing guard position. You then use your hand to redirect the jab to the opposite side. If he throws his jab with one hand, you can use your other hand to parry it left. Doing this forces his arm across your own body, redirecting his defense, and opens him up. You don’t want his hand to be the target of the parry. It’s a smaller target and can be missed. Some arts, such as Muay Tai will immediately lower the arm and then follow with the elbow. The further up you aim, the easier it will be to do and the more effective it will become. It is important to note that the parry is not effective against the jab but it is effective against the hook or cross. Three reasons are why. First, because of the curvature in the arm during cross or hook, it is difficult to intersect with a parry. Cross parrying will result in a force-onforce block and not a redirection. Cross parrying weakens your defense and opens you up to a strike. The best defense when it comes to the hook or cross is the cover. When you learn how to use the parry, keep your head down and inside. As you get more comfortable with the parry, you will be able to slip the jab and add footwork to your arsenal. You will be able to open up a whole new realm of offensive defense once you have started adding footwork. Keep it real and you’ll be safe. Sign up for the Personal Defense World newsletter today to stay in the loop! Sign up for our newsletter I have read and understood the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy and I hereby accept them. Athlon may collect, store, process, and transfer my Personal Data and Non-Personal Data for the purpose of signing me up for the email newsletter. Up Next The Red Flag Law Debate is Hot. While not everyone agrees on it, it remains a hot topic. The AR platform is so popular because of this. Its modular capabilities make it possible to create any number of personal configurations. The Build Your Own Upper program by Primary Arms allows […] to do the same.
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