Singh’s Thirteen Tactics or Rules for Ground & Stand-up Striking

1. Visualize a relaxed offense and defense to know the nature of your opponent’s movements.
2. Eyes follow your strikes and your opponent’s strikes.
3. Breath before, during, and after the fight.
4. Chin down, shoulders offensively rounded & defensively high, chest in and hands up.
5. When on the ground strike before and after controlling head, getting angle, making move, and sinking submission.
6. Pivot (roll-back) off the offense and defense.
7. Offend and defend within your stance or sense of balance.
8. Never back up unless you are knocked back or you are setting a trap.
9. Strike, Chin, Temples , Crown, Throat, and Chinese Airway to cause panic and paralysis or unconsciousness. Strike heart to cause arrhythmia, nausea and weakness. Strike spleen to cause weakness. Strike liver to cause toxicity and pain. Strike solar plexus to corrupt breathing.
10. Ground fighting begins with moving on your opponent like a rattlesnake on a rock, trapping your opponent like a boa constrictor engulfing a rodent and subduing your opponent like a territorial black mamba biting the head, body and leg of unsuspecting prey.
11. When on the ground control the opponent’s head and when opposed strike. Then try to get the angle and counter with strikes to confound the opponent.
12. Then try to make a technical move to escape, reverse and fully mount the opponent and when opposed strike until opponent submits to your efforts.
13. Finally, when the head, angle and dominating move is fully within your control sink your submission of choke, joint/tendon lock or relentless striking.