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The Shell Cover subfamily covers the defensive posture where the fighter curls into a compact protective shape, tucking the chin behind the shoulders and covering the head with the arms, creating a tu...
The Standard Shell covers the head by placing both hands over the ears and temples, tucking the chin to the chest, and bringing the elbows together in front of the face, creating a compact protective ...
The Shoulder Roll (Philly Shell) subfamily covers the defensive stance and technique where the fighter turns the lead shoulder upward to deflect punches off the shoulder while simultaneously rolling t...
The Heel Stomp from Shell drives the heel downward from the shell position onto a grounded or crouching opponent. [1]
The Up-Kick from Shell is a powerful upward kick delivered from the defensive shell position on the ground, targeting a standing opponent's face or body as they attempt to enter the guard. [1]
The Shoulder Roll Defence is a boxing defensive posture where the lead shoulder is raised high to protect the chin, the lead arm hangs low across the body, and the rear hand is held tight against the ...
The Boxing Defence family covers the blocking and guard techniques specific to Western boxing — the most refined system of hand-based defence in combat sports, developed through over 150 years of prof...
The Cover Defence family encompasses defensive postures and techniques where the fighter positions the arms, hands, and shoulders to create a protective shell that absorbs strikes on non-vulnerable ar...
The Standard Shoulder Roll executes the fundamental shoulder roll defence by raising the lead shoulder to chin height and rotating the torso away from the incoming punch, allowing the strike to deflec...
The Block group encompasses all defensive techniques that use the arms, hands, legs, or body to physically intercept and absorb incoming strikes — the most fundamental form of defence across every str...
The Defensive Turtle family covers the turtle positions from the perspective of the defending fighter, who uses the curled-up posture to protect against submissions, pins, and strikes while working to...
The Standard Defensive Turtle establishes the basic defensive turtle with the fighter on hands and knees, elbows tight, chin tucked, and hips low, creating a compressed, protective ball that is diffic...
The Defence Against Hook Punch is the Krav Maga technique for defending against circular hook punches to the head or body, using a raised forearm shield that absorbs and deflects the hook's arc while ...
The Turtle Position group encompasses all positions related to the turtle — the defensive curled-up posture on hands and knees — from both the perspective of the turtled fighter and the attacking figh...
The turtle cradle attacks a turtled opponent by threading the arms around both the head and one leg, linking the hands to fold the opponent out of their protective shell. [1] The attacker approaches f...
The Standing Arm Drag subfamily covers arm drag takedowns from a standing position, where the attacker grabs the opponent's arm and pulls it across to create an angle for attack. [1] From standing, th...
The Standard Tight Turtle compresses the body to its smallest configuration, with elbows pressed to knees, forehead on the mat, hands protecting the neck, and hips as low as possible. [1] This ultra-c...
The turtle collapse headscissors attacks a turtled opponent by collapsing their defensive shell and trapping the head between the attacker's legs. [1] The attacker, positioned behind or to the side of...
The nelson neck crank from turtle is applied against a turtled opponent by the attacker threading a half-nelson or full-nelson grip behind the opponent's neck and cranking the head forward while maint...
The Boxing Counter family covers counter-punching techniques specific to Western boxing — the highest expression of pugilistic skill, where the defender exploits the openings created by an opponent's ...
The Turtle Escape group encompasses all techniques for escaping the turtle position — the defensive curled-up posture on hands and knees where a grappler protects against attacks from the opponent on ...