{"id":1248,"date":"2013-07-12T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T09:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T18:03:27","slug":"rhino-defenseoffense-against-a-grab-from-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/rhino-defenseoffense-against-a-grab-from-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhino \"Offensive Defense\" Counter Attack Against an Attack From Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"When you encounter an&nbsp;attack from behind you may not have much time to defend yourself. But if the attacker touches or grabs you before he strikes, you can utilize the split second before the punch to protect yourself and turn the tables with a counter attack.<!--more-->\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ti00n0DW5zM?&amp;autohide=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\nThe \"Rhino\" defense shown in the video above is taught by martial artist and cage fighter Tom Proctor. This technique enables you to almost immediately protect your head (the likely target of the attackers strike) and frees up your other hand to intercept the attack from behind.\n<div style=\"width: 250px; height: 143px; padding: 5px; float: right;\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2357\" src=\"http:\/\/fightfast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/attack-from-behind-pt1.png\" alt=\"The rhino defensive counter attack enables you to almost immediately protect your head\" width=\"100%\"><\/div>\nAs you can see in the video, the key to making the block work is speed. If you can train this move to become instinctive, you'll have the best shot a defending yourself against an attack from behind. The second part of this move, the counter attack, is fairly straight forward as well. Be aware however, that this clip only shows one possible follow up scenario from the Rhino block. Depending on the situation you may not be able to lock the attackers arm and perform the leg sweep.\n\nThe good news is there are many follow up moves you can utilize once you have used this block. Looking through some of our older posts should give you some ideas, but here are a few attacks that come to mind.\n\nFirst, you can drive the elbow which is protecting your head into the attacker, while your free arm is intercepting any attacks. This won't finish the fight but will put the attacker off balance, enabling you to take the offense and continue with damaging counter attack strikes. Second, you can move right from the Rhino into a headbutt or knee strike.\n\nYou'll want to train for multiple scenarios that way you won't freeze up if the situation doesn't play out exactly as Tom demonstrated it in the clip above. Again this clip is a small snippet showing only one possible scenario.\n\nIf you want to see more street fighting scenarios taught by Tom Proctor check out his <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fightfast.com\/trs\/CF-k.php\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Secrets of Cage Fighting DVD Package<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you encounter an&nbsp;attack from behind you may not have much time to defend yourself. But if the attacker touches or grabs you before he strikes, you can utilize the split second before the punch to protect yourself and turn the tables with a counter attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11788,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/11788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}