The football solver myth in the balls

Most blows to the groin are usually carried out with a frontal kick to go up directly to the groin or with hand shots to go up.

A kick or punch to climb to the groin can temporarily invalidate many male opponents but given the pain inflicted by this technique without precision not always by the results so declared in many courses and many “males” instinctively protect their groin especially attackers accustomed to infamous shots or hidden by a fake conversation.

A kick in the groin can also use with a tip kick or a thrust kick although less effective and debilitating, etc. but we go to analyze them in the post.

As you know in sports and martial arts competitions groin kicks are illegal so it means they are valid for self-defense

I am a Self-Defense instructor and surely one of the things that is taught are the shots the primary targets of the human body:

• eye shots,
• at the throat and
• groin,

But it doesn’t mean that these strikes within a non-cooperative combat context are a guarantee of effectiveness and resolution.

Let’s say they are blows that in the midst of the conflict can lead to a resolution or a time space in order to attack to finalize or escape.

The concept that you always see in videos where an aggressor stands there in front of you waiting for “fingers” in the eyes or with beautiful legs open to take a kick in the balls is nonsense.

• Those are not the dynamics of an aggression for several reasons such as:
• An attacker is used to doing what he does and has gained some experience
• there are things that the attacker does on purpose or inadvertently that can cause them to have little or no effect
• then the positions that your attacker may have
• the type of clothing
• environmental factors

are some elements that can prevent shots at primary targets such as kick in balls from being made ineffectively and decisively.

For this reason they are blows that must be used by learning to bring them in motion or from static positions of conflict then inserted within a fight because what you have always seen is cinema, no one attacks you frontally to you with their hands down, legs open, without putting pressure related to aggression that limits your movements.

Yes, I know they’ve been telling you a lot of nonsense for years and you’ve fallen for it!

Simple and effective solutions are a beautiful fairy tale to hear and believe

I am a simplifier and I believe that the search for simple solutions to violence and not to make too sophisticated the way you fight an unknown attacker to maintain a solid position and defensive structure is the best thing but to fight simple you have to know a lot.

I have told you several times about this concept and the principle of 80/20 in combat.

But the simplicity explained by the community of self-defense experts who say it is based on reality can often become simplistic, not to say imaginative.

Or do you think that, for example, a blow to the eye will resolve the conflict or that a slap in the groin area will always leave an attacker bent, stunned and unse adept at combat, etc.

The truth about the shots at primary targets?

Man by its very nature is made to protect the primary targets instinctively and naturally by developing instinctive movements that go precisely to protect these debilitating targets.

Perhaps if you are very precise and with the right depth more than the power you can get a stumping effect and that debilises your attacker, but no result is ever guaranteed, and to hear such confident and conclusive statements about the effectiveness of such technical solutions is dangerous and leaves students a false sense of security in the techniques that are taught to them.

Here, too, there are several training methods to make more effective and inserted in a three-dimensional context of combat these techniques that if not inserted in a context remain beautiful to see for lovers of action cinema but not suitable for reality if you want to take home the skin.

Situations to hit with a kick in the balls:

• Striking from the static standing position — rare > situation, of someone doing tamarro exposing themselves to a sudden attack without protecting themselves. Definitely not an expert who is used to doing assaults for the purpose of theft or physical or sexual violence
• Strike from standing position during combat — a real-world situation where you create space in combat to insert shots at primary targets along with other shots > to stop or demobilize the attacker in order to end it with other combinations of shots or create time space to escape.
• Strike from the standing fighting position — > when you get grabbed and have your hands free to hit your eyes, throat or genitals or have a chance with your knees or foot to hit. Often it deals with combined movements and not single strokes.
• Hitting from the ground fighting position — > you’re on the ground and finding the space to hit effectively

In all cases, these are shots that in the sport of both striking and ground fighting are clearly illegal and that usually stop the match by intervention of the referee to allow the athlete to recover or stop the match by disqualification or inability to the athlete to continue.

Remember! The correct way to hit the groin is always from the bottom up. So a trajectory to go up!

Opportunities to strike that are explained as effective

As I told you people are instinctively good at protecting the groin in a natural way but in this post I want to look at some of the occasions when hitting the groin does not produce the stop of the aggressor but that are often taught conclusively and unfortunately in all the lessons of self-defense.

Confidence in their pupils should never be done through illusion but through the practice of sparring (Andrea)

The famous kick in standing balls

Surely you’ve pretended to kick someone in the balls and you’ve seen that any big movement to the groin causes a susultant response that sees your legs tighten, raise your knee or pull back your hips and groin that’s gone.

Hitting the groin struggling on the ground

Conclusions

Now this post means that you have to stop considering shots in the balls as an effective tool?

Absolutely not!

Shots in the groin have their precise role and can be extremely effective.

What you need to understand and accept is that there are no simplistic solutions but there are different solutions for each type of condition and aggressor.

For example,:

• sometimes you are not able to pull blows to the groin, as in the case if the attacker is a girl or you are two girls discussing, a particular attire, etc.
• or for example if someone is pulling you from behind and it can be extremely difficult to make a heel shot at the balls,
• or the target is moving,
• the aggressor is well protected and move their legs being careful not to leave openings
• the clothes around the horse are stretched;
• or as we said before even if most of your efforts will be directed to stay on your feet instead you end up on the ground and the groin becomes a difficult goal to achieve.

Then you have to use other tools, other fakes, deceptions, to create openings and pull shots in other areas such as eye shots, throat, etc. or create through other shots to create the appropriate time to place an effective shot and possibly solver in the groin

This mentality must start to be part of a problem-solving mentality where the critical component must be brought into the worst condition because you always have to train to survive the worst opponent hoping to meet a fool that you should never underestimate.

No solution to violence should rely on a single solution or technical and the technical solution should always be integrated into an adaptation where if one thing fails, another attack response automatically starts.

You never have to rely on a technical solution that if it doesn’t work makes your whole strategy useless.

The solution/technical must be one of the many tools to have in your toolbox and you have to use it in combination with others during work.

If you only have one solution to violence that depends on the success of a ball attack then you absolutely have to review your approach and insert that technique and review it in other attacking ways that you can insert before the kick in the balls or after the kick in the balls.

You have to study combinations and ways in which other fake or attack movements can be integrated, so that if the clothing as we said little from for example renders useless your attack or the complete solution does not fail you have suffered other tools and attack strategies.

Fighting must be simple but not simplistic and I remind you that to fight simple you have to know a lot.