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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”

  1. I always regretted not having some of these in my library of martial arts techniques. Thank you for your program!

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  2. Impressive vid bro.those mechanics are nice fainting hook.looks like wing chun.two in one combo if that punch was head first blow would rattle the brain.next blow Ko’d.

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  6. Nice one . I use my hands as distraction to set up my legs .Push kick for distance then Muat thai kick to thigh

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  8. Thank you for teaching us these things so that hopefully we will remember what to do if taken by surprise or in such a situation!

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  10. I really appreciate these guarded teaching moments…. There Gold. These are outstanding teaching moments. I’m disabled but enjoy doing what I’m able to do.

    Thank Diallo for all his work and well as Joe.

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  15. Thank you, I like the videos and believe they are informative.
    Unlike one writer, I do not do street fights. So I never lose!

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  16. Tks. For refreshing my mind on several shots you have shoeed us! I really like the pants pull up & drop, sweeps leg if needed ! Tks. Again Rod

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  20. Many people don’t know how to put their weight behind a good body or head shot
    This might be something that you want to stress on how to pivot on their feet when throwing that hook to the body or head to get the most bang for the buck, not that you haven’t already done so. It was a good demonstration, and practice on a heavy bag will, as you know, enhance the technique.
    Thanks,
    Everett Williams

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  23. Excellent Training . I Llke all your Self Defensive System and I Need to Learn for all 85 Instructors and their Style of Self Defense Materials to teach me how to Defend myself against Multiple Attackers and I am Willing to Purchase more Materials as you Keep Looking for new Fighting Instructors to Advance me in Self Defense Knowledge so I will be able to be around my family when they Threaten to Attack or kill me . Thank you for Fight Fast . Ronny Romano

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  24. Hey Diallo: Excellent, extremely fast stuff & thanks for the “heads up” on it all but the words for it are “feign” and/or “feigning” and not “faint” or “fainting”, O.K., and now I’ve taught you something after you’ve taught me something & thanks much amigo!

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  25. I like the moves if the target won’t drop his hands break them ribs then he will drop his guard

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  26. GREAT MOVES . EASY TO USE. EASY TO REMEMBER. GREAT TEACHER. MAKES EVERYTHING EASY TO UNDERSTAND.
    THANKS FOR THE VID.
    JOE

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  27. Thanks for the cool tips. I really enjoy learning new ways to knock the snot out of an opponent. Thanks against .

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  31. Great move because after first strike to body you can go upstairs with either your fist or elbo strike thanks

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  32. Inspirational to see yours bro.
    I have always been intrested in the practice drills call 41 blocks or 42 blocks but havent seen anything on how to perform it or practice it. i am not the agressive alpa type but I hate feeling as vulnerable with a small medium build and a warriour heart full of scrappy intentions to defend the helpless in various situations and I d like to practice more of your drill and above mentioned to take confidence with me just for that unknown moment that leaves no option to wait for authorities to come and save.

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  34. Bob, these are all good video’s and serve their purpose well if initiated and done correctly, I may also point out that I’ve been in and seen few fights that went longer than a couple of minutes, so it’s worth mentioning that U need to be in at least decent shape physically should the fight go to the ground or take longer than usual , with that being said remember U always win the fight that U avoid being in … in the first place.

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  35. There is an Isshin ryu counter move to this low faint called the Wansu Dump. This low faint is a very typical opening move by many fighters. The defender strikes the low faint arm with a hard and fast knife edge knocking the attacker off balance to his right and grabs the attackers arm at the elbow. The defender simultaneously while grabbing the right arm takes his right hand using a forehand knife edge and quickly uplifts it hard into the attacker’s left armpit. At this time he simultaneously pulls the captured arm to his left in a spin while continuing the lifting the attacker up at his armpit. The attacker completely off balance, slams hard to ground where the defender then finishes him off with a kick to the head, ribs or sternum. This was developed by the 10th degree Grand Master Eizo Shimabuku and is one of the 21 moves of Isshin ryu. This entire sequence is done in about 1/5 of second when you learn it and practice it properly. Master Shimabuku taught this to me when I was student of his dojo while stationed at Kadena Air Force Base on the main Island of Okinawa. His son and eighth degree master was also my master who taught me Shorei ryu Kempo, a very lethal combat karate style based on Shaolin Kung Fu. Your demonstrator has exceptional speed and would be a natural for Isshin ryu.

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  38. A ask what a old man could do with a cane. The cane is a great weapon I studied the art od cane fighting. he can strike the knees, face, groin etc, a cane is a great weapon

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  40. I respect the truth in Diablo Frazier’s feinting hook. I’verified been hit a few times with this. It’s difficult to block, and difficult to see even if you are scanning elbows. I wish I would of had someone to teach me these things while I was in the streets, to defend myself from these punk asses that attack in packs of three or more.
    Thank you Diallo.

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  42. Your cameraman might provide a more insightful video if he could view down over tori’s right shoulder and move with him. The views from the uki’s right were completely blocked by his body. Overhead camera positions are also instructive.

    I am ignorant of your technical restrictions. My comments are in good faith and with constructive intent only.

    Would it be effective to follow the fake body shot, if it fails, with a straight right kick to same side ankle/shin/knee with the same hook follow up, as a practiced combination? Sure need to keep your left guard up when you go in for this shot, but its a winner when it lands. Good move.

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  43. Thnx for the tip, I can use all the help I can get,im only 5′ 6″ and not that strong.i would like to combine a lil boxing, real martial arts, grappling and joint locks to my self-defense. I will wrk hard and consistent if I have the right material. I look forward to the nxt tip. Thnx again, Doug.

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  44. My father was an amateur boxer and a 16 year old middle weight golden glove champion in Ohio. He also fought middle weight in the airborne at Ft.Benning where I was born. He had over 100 amateur fights before turning pro. He also fought 38 pro fights with a 22 KO, 8 UD, 4SD, and 4 loses. He was ranked 10th in the world one time and fought the number 3 fighter to a split decision and lost. He came from a large family and many of his brothers would tell me about his fights when I was growing up. My father had power in both hands. He beat fighters before with body shots,usually taller fighters with a larger mid section opened up. He would go high to open the bottom up on tall fighters. He had enough power with gloves on to break ribs, and many a fighter went down unable to breath and blood running out of their mouths from internal bleeding. One time when I was 18 I was walking home with a friend.Telling him how my Dad used to be a boxer. This guy kind of had a bad reputation,but I never thought he would not believe me and do what he was about to try. When I got home my Father was drying dishes. I had to leave the room for a minute.When I came back around the corner,Bob, my friend had his hands up to fight. I told Bob,no, and tried to grab him. Before I could I heard My father say do what you got to do. My fathers hands were at his side. Bob threw a right hand punch. Before it even got close my father blocked it with his left hand and you could hear it smack against Bobs arm.Almost simultaneously a right upper cut lifted BOB off of the ground. At the same time it spun him in the air. I was standing behind Bob and as he was lifted and spinning I saw his eyes. They were rolled back in his head and all I could see were the whites of them. Bob was unconscious while spinning in the air. He was falling right next to the corner of the stove and I feared he was going to hit his head on it.. We lived in a home with a basement. When Bob hit that wooden floor it was like 175lbs of dead weight. It took 2-3 minutes for Bob to wake up and realize what had happened. He jumped up with his fists in the air to go some more. y father told him,son, I have not hit you with my best shot yet,you better go on. That is when I knew what real punching power could do to some one. Never have I seen an example like. Although I have seen 3 other people knocked out street fighting it was nothing like that. Just like here it was the right upper cut that ended it. My father was 40 at the time.

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  46. Should I be using the mirror image to my attacker…as in…his left side leading against my right side?
    Dennis.

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  49. My dad was a club fighter, he used misdirection too. A slightly different move more like shoulder shrugs, but both are awesome.

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