Place the palm of your right hand under Assailant's chin, forearm straight up and down and close to his chin.


"TWO"
Pull his waist forward with your left hand. Shove his head backward with your right until he is in position of fig. 29.

Be careful not to let him fall. Keep your balance in the Stahara.
This movement is not done by sheer strength, but by destroying Assailant's balance through the proper coordination of your right and left hands.
Be careful not to jerk his head back. In a real fight you would do so, but if you hurt your partner it will simply curtail your practice.



WRONG WAY TO TRY CHIN SHOVE
If you hold your elbow away out as shown in fig. 30 you are using only your arm and shoulder muscles against the strength of his neck.

This is using your strength to the least advantage, as an ordinary man's neck is stronger than his arm and shoulder.
Take the right position of fig. 28, and put the strength of your Stahara -- the strength of your whole body -- into the trick.
Experiment and learn the correct method of shoving.
In a real fight you will not stop at the position shown in fig. 29, but will throw opponent over backward.
If performed with sufficient quickness he will be knocked out by the concussion of his head on the ground.
Further, there would be no pause between "ONE" and "TWO" which is simply the analytical method of learning this trick.
It is unnecessary to throw the opponent in practice.


CORRECT LEVERAGE IN CHIN SHOVE
Take position of fig. 31. Assailant is holding you around waist. You have your hand on his chin.

Let him stiffen his neck and resist your efforts to push him back, so that you are struggling with him strength against strength. You will be unable to push him back.

Instead of continuing to push back against his strength push up, dropping your body a little so that your Stahara is behind the upward effort.
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.
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