Krav Maga - Palm Strike (2 Mistakes to Avoid)

Two minor but common mistakes students tend to make while performing the Palm Strike is an incorrect hand position and telegraphing the strike. This video addresses both mistakes and how to fix them. Additional videos and information about our self defense, fighting, and fitness programs are available at http://www.kravmagatraining.com/ The videos on this YouTube channel are NOT a replacement for actual instruction. They do not teach techniques, but instead isolate and fix problems within the technique or its individual components. The videos are designed to help the student who has already learned the technique under the instruction of a qualified instructor. Important Note: These videos are specific to the techniques and curriculum taught to the students at our facility. Students from other Krav Maga schools and organizations are more than welcome to watch and use these videos and we hope they find them useful! However, variations may be taught that are different from the techniques taught at other Krav Maga locations. This doesn't mean one variation is wrong or the other is right. They are just variations...plain and simple. The most important question for any technique or defense should be this: Does it work for the individual who is performing it? As long as it does, then the technique or variation has merit, regardless of where it comes from! That's the number one principle that we emphasize at our school. Transcript: "This is Randall with KravMagaTraining.com and in this video I'm going to discuss two little mistakes that are pretty common when it comes to delivering the palm heel strike and I just want to make sure that you guys are aware of it so you can avoid it. For the most part, the palm heel strike is pretty easy to learn. I don't really have a lots of problems showing it to my students and have them be able to perform it properly. As long as they already have good body mechanics and good technique for their straight punches, because the palm strike is just an extension of that. You're just using a different part of your hand as a striking surface. So instead of hitting with your knuckles you're hitting with a softer part of your hand in case you're hitting a harder part of their body. Like you are hitting someone on the back of the head. You don't want to hit them with your knuckles where you could potentially injure yourself. Or maybe you've already hurt your hands in the fight and you have to switch to palm strikes in order to keep fighting. Anyways, two minor mistakes I see that are really common is one is little details to the hand positioning. And two is making sure you are not telegraphing your palm strike. And I'll discuss that later. Let me discuss the proper hand positioning for the palm strike. Okay, regardless of whether you use this version or this version. I personally teach both in my classes because I feel they are both useful. I don't really care about the angle. What I do care about is the hand positioning itself. And that most people have a bad habit of leaving their thumb sticking out like this. I don't like this for two reasons. One is if you miss and you catch your thumb on something there's a good possibility you're going to injure it. So I prefer to take the knuckle on the thumb and bend that and then tuck the thumb in next to the hand. This will do two things. One is, obviously, your thumb is not sticking out now so it's less likely to get jammed. Two, when you tuck your thumb in, and more importantly, bend that knuckle on the thumb, you'll feel your whole hand tighten up and it will become a lot stronger. So this is like the equivalent of making a tight fist but with an open hand. It's like a good karate chop position. And you just take that karate chop position and just bend the wrist back and it will feel real stable..." Krav Maga Worldwide Official Training Center - Self Defense * Fighting * Fitness - Pompano Beach, FL (South Florida).