Alright,
Now we have accleration, deceleration and the striking zone covered.
Stepping back for a minute...the length of the weapon and the footwork will allow you to close distance and hit if a person is threatening you from a long distance (for the street, not in gun parlance of course.) or, you can fade back and maintain the same degree of distance and still hit.
What of Close Quarters hitting? Where you are either hitting with your hammerfist (loop tube end) or with the semi-pointed weighted end in your other hand...
To enter into this close range, you have to be able to deflect, to parry, not necessarily block, an incoming limb.
Assume a position where your hands are out in front of you and the ManrikiGarrotte (MG from now on to save space and time) is in your hands...your palms face each other. But the Loop Tube End of the MG, the Cable from that end, should be pinched between the thumb and index finger...with your pinky and ring finger through the Loop Tube OR ring and middle finger through it. Follow so far?
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Any uppercut coming on a low-line shot, or a low-line, upward knife thrust, can be snagged, the movement is like "rolling" the MG and snagging the limb, when you snag the limb, it cannot be an easy movement, you have to mean it, or it will not work.
You can deflect downward with the MG's Cable horizontal, or upward with it horizontal.
Now, turning the cable vertical, you can deflect to the right or left, even in a diagonal sort of way, the idea is not to get caught up on if the cable is this way or that, but to work with a training partner and just receive what you are being fed, and deal with it.
The parrying/deflecting force of this little thin cable is amazing...have your training partner "Stiff-Arm" you, in other words, have him extend his arm and stiffen it, you can easily move it with the MG, up, down, right or left. You do not deflect with your forearms when you are using this device, there is no need to. You let the cable do the work. Let it work.
Now, if the limb is coming in, and you parry the limb on the cable to the left, your right hand comes down to impact that limb with a hammerfist, that is, your closed fist on the bottom, not with the knuckles. Likewise, parrying to the right, your left hand at the completion of the parry would hammer down...whichever hand that has the weighted end of the MG in it is going to be especially effective.
These parries should be practiced carefully with a training partner and you will feel the power this MG has. It is amazing.
You can also roll the elbow into strikes, striking with your elbow/forearm in close quaarters...your empty hands, elbows, knees and low line kicks come into play, and they have to, in order to make the MG and you as effective as you can be.
Next is, do you parry and hit multiple times, back off? Draw a weapon? Or do you snare the attacker and go from there?
Next will be snaring that limb and locking him up.
Go buy a clothes/closet pole and secure it for this...you will tear your partner up doing it full force. Do it with a partner, but do it really, really slow and easy. That is coming next.
