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The Feinting Hook: A Nasty Self-Defense Distraction Technique

Get Your Opponent To
Drop Their Guard

This is just another nasty little fighting trick to throw into your arsenal, and you know that if it’s coming from Diallo, it is certified street-tested and proven. This guy doesn’t mess around. The basic idea behind the feinting hook is to get your attacker to drop his guard so you can move in with brutal, fight-ending moves. A body shot is rarely a fight-ender, but most guys are going to drop their guard to block a body shot, and that is exactly what you want to bait them into doing.

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Breaking It Down

As Diallo said in the video, the goal with the feinted hook is to get your attacker to drop their guard, allowing you to exploit the vulnerability in their defenses by following up with a swift hook to the jaw. When you feint a hook to your opponent’s body, their first instinct is to block the blow. Unfortunately for them, this usually means that they will bring their hands down in order to block the body shot, leaving their head wide open. This is why it is critical that you really sell the feint.

Once your attacker has his guard down, it’s time to go to work with a nice hook to the jaw. This alone can easily be a fight-ender, but if you aren’t lucky enough to knock him out, you will still throw him off his game long enough for you to slip in another shot (maybe something like the horizontal elbow strike from last week’s post).

Now, like I said before, you really have to sell the fake hook to the gut to get him to drop his guard. If he thinks it’s a fake, you’re the one who’s going to end up regretting it.

Keep Your Guard Up

Unfortunately, every time you strike you are losing one of your guard hands, leaving yourself open to attacks. To counter some of this, you always want to keep your other hand up, blocking your neck, chin, and face.

Either way, the side you are striking from will be open for a split second. If you don’t make him really believe that you are going in for a body shot he can counter-strike.

The bottom line is to be intent on landing a solid body shot. If you do, he will instinctively be more interested in protecting his gut than recognizing the opening he just created for you. Once his guard is down you have the opportunity to strike his unprotected jaw and face. As a bonus you get to land a solid body shot, too.

Distraction Moves

This move is a sort of “active distraction technique”. If you follow this blog or have signed up to get my fight guide, you will now that I talk a lot about distraction moves. Distraction moves are crucial. They give you such a huge upper hand in a self-defense situation that you really cannot go without them.

In fact, every single fighter I have ever worked with over the past two decades has used distraction techniques. Why? Because it’s how they get the upper hand on larger opponents or cut down other skilled fighters. It’s the secret weapon that enables them to win fights, even against equally well-trained fighters.

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171 thoughts on “The Feinting Hook: A Nasty Self-Defense Distraction Technique”

  4. Yes, I like this one, but I personally don’t like to strike with closed fists. To feint to the ribs is ok for me but I would be putting the heel of my hand up under his chin, or an elbow across the jaw, especially with the stepping in that’s done here. This is a good move/feint for people who like to fist fight.

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  5. What are your thoughts on groin hits and getting a handful of groin tissue and just trying to inflict as pain as possible. Use as a last resort or use it early and end the conflict now.

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  6. I don’t think I will be using these moves since I am a woman and so old- but I want to go back into the shots that are simple but effective, ike you were teaching at first, the eyes, the neck, etc. show me some more of those moves.

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  7. a great move, one of my favorites–until i kept hearing about hands breaking on craniums, e.g., mike tyson in a bar fight, bouncers; but if you can hit the jaw, WOW!

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  8. I like this, though as a woman of 56 I am not sure I would be fast enough or effective. How could I add enough power to make these two hits count?

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  13. I have watched all ofso the videos several times and find them extremely useful. Although i am not a fighter; i atleast now know how to protect myself and my family.

    Thank you for all of the knowledg.
    Michael.

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  18. Diallo,

    It’s been years since I’ve had a street fight, so your video brought back a lot of memories.
    I started my Law Enforcement career (I’m long retired) back in the 1970’s, walking a beat in a Railroad town. It was also the only City built entirely on an Indian Reservation. In addition, those who didn’t work for the Railroads were either loggers, or farmers; these were all guys who could take a punch and remain standing unless you could simply knock them out. You and I both know that that’s not always easy!
    I sure as hell didn’t win every fight I had as a beat officer, and I ended more than one Shift getting sewed up in the E.R.
    I like your video, the way you move, and the way you set up your opponent. I always sized up my opponent by the way he looked at me, the “set of his body language”, and his demeanor. Had I met you back in the 70’s, I would have immediately thought, “shit”; then I would have tried the best “weapon of choice”, my voice! And if that didn’t work…well, stitches really didn’t hurt all that much after a while.

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  19. Yeah, this is the kind o reality stuff that makes most formal Karate training obsolete for today’s kind of ‘close encounters’ This is similar to what I’ve been teaching since way back in the days.

    And you can actually master this looking (almost) as good as Diallo here with just a few minutes a day on the bag in about a couple months.

    What Diallo isn’t demonstating is how really fast this feint movement is when you do it correctly in real time action. It’s almost like one strike. He’s actually slowing it down for the demo.

    In dynamic focus he’d also be leaning/moving in somewhat for the power strike and not standing in place so he won’t accidentaly hit his demo person.

    There’s actually two modes of feinting/faking. The one he’s showing here with an actual strike, and the one you don’t need to make contact with. If your opponent is a ‘flincher’, then that will work just as well even quicker.

    I usually save my exploding one-two smash for two to the head (like i shoot. Instead of two to the body and one to the head, i do two to the head and the rest to the body)

    So i usually feint/fake with a slip kick to the groin. This is really a natural ‘flincher’ and all but the most disciplined fighters fall for that one, and the hand drop there is usually greater. so he’s really open for the knockout. Even trained/expereienced fighters who see the kick coming and turn in with the hip/knee to block it still also inadvertently drop the hands enough for a quick combo.

    But like Louie here just said here–and like him I’ve been in too many of these situations in my early days of law enforcement– if you practice enough and get proficient, you should easily get the clear shot with the fake move, but the knock out is an entirely different story. Especially with some of these hard cases, and certainly if they’re high on something.

    That’s something you really have to get ‘good at’ if you want to win these kind of fights. One strike knockouts, or at least knock-downs. So you can follow up the temporary advantage with a terminal technique.

    I never lose fights because i don’t even fight like this anymore. If i even get in a situation where i even smell that someone is going to think about ‘wanting’ to fight, i either do a ‘terminal avoidance’ tactic, or ‘initiate the action’ with a surprise knock out/take out before the jerk even thought about ‘going for it’.

    That’s a tricky tactic that amateurs shouldn’t try for the main reason being the liability factor. You have to know how to cover your ass afterward if it gets sticky.

    “The fight you always win, is the one you never get into” –?

    Good video, Mr. Pierce! Keep up the good work.

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  22. Great simple instruction.Same way most people learn spanish,a word at a time.Most people cant think or pre-meditate moves.Fights I was most successful were like chess. I considered my best options for me, like grabbing the ears and planting that knee.Not pretty but I knew I could do it. Guy’s cant buy an expensive pencil and paper and start feeling like and artist.Stuff your teaching is basic, simple ,and it works.Thank’s

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  25. Great instruction. Jeet Kune Do was a great concept of using different styles including boxing and street fighting. Can’t hurt to increase your styles. Thanks for this freebie. It may come in handy some day.

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  32. I have used this same move before,but instead of only using my fist,I also used my elbow to follow thru then i just kick the crap out of the dude.

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  35. I like the distraction technique. But what do you do when they are aware of this technique and protect themselves against this distraction technique. How about using a dual distraction technique?

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  37. The feinting hook technique was very interesting. It look simple to set up and easy to execute, you just have to work on the speed you delivered the feint and the punch.Thanks for the video.

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  38. That’s a good one. But the best set-up ever used on me: I got on the elevator with a 110pound buxom blonde. She asked me to press one please. When I did she immediately kicked me in the groin and kneed me in the face, breaking my nose.

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  43. Its not the joes you gotta worry about, its the slim, wiry fellas who can jump straight up and batter you remorselessly. Lose weight and stay skinny to win a street fight. I had about 60 street fights in my life and what I said is true. I lost to skinny fellas not so powerful but unstoppable.

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  48. Thank you for showing me how to use my left hand to feint & hook. It seems like a very easy way to take care of myself against a bigger opponent, especially if he is right-handed and not expecting me to come from the left. Thank you, again! Diallo, this is fantastic!

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