How to Defend Against A Rear Bear Hug - Arms Free Part II 5. Immediately twist in the other direction and deliver another rear elbow strike to the face or head. 6. Finally, twisting once again, strike with another elbow strike on the original side. The reason you are striking in this left, right, left, pattern is that if your attacker tried to avoid one of these elbows, he moves right in the line of fire of the next one. 7. Continuing to twist, so that you are now facing your attacker, deliver a palm heel strike to the face. 8. Follow up if necessary with knee kicks, elbow strikes or additional palm heel strikes until the threat is over. Notice how even with the rear attacks we are maneuvering so that one we face our attacker the follow up techniques are the same as the frontal attacks. This is by design to keep the number of techniques to a bare minimum.

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