How to fight like a ‘ballerina’

It’s a common Nightmare scenario: I’m only home at night, maybe, or looking forward to meeting someone in a bar-and someone gets up, I am deterred. I am greater than you, and you have (maybe, probably) never been in a fight before. What are you doing?

Appear, even the experienced brawlers concerned with being assaulted. Hi Marie Louis Chooljian, a hollywood treforian hollywood, often wonders as they will recover – and sy are jujitsu. And kickboxing. And Judo. “When I’m out, I think of this thing:” She says. “A, because of my work, and B, because I want to keep you sure.”

For his last movie, The spinoff John Wick BallerinaChooljian had to fight someone who was trained to kill from childhood: she was the stunt double for Eva (played by An arms anra), a murderer trying to vindicate the death of his father. CUE scenese who involved shoot – out, fighting hand, and also a flamature battle. The movie also asked for armas and chooljian, both about 5’6 “, to go to toe-toe with John wick, played by 6-foot-tall Keanu leave. I am

Boys of Coriography between the two, then they tried to be a ampedic version of what someone could do when they did with someone larger or stronger. “What was fun for the film, ‘how do you win?” “Says Chooljian.” We wish you as soon as possible is this if you fight a giant man, I can’t be able to hit your face and win. “

But what about the rest of us, people who are not trained in combat? Wired asked Choojian for some advice about what the average person could do to defend in a hand to the hand they cannot escape.

Drop your butt (seriously)

I could sound ridiculous, but fall quickly can throw your off-guard attacker. “If someone goes to beat, and then I’m going to you,” that tells you, “What’s the matter with your ankles. You can only throw you for taple; but if you can kick you, your chances to get a lot improved.

Put on top

If you are able to sweep your assaulting out of his feet, hope they caught my head on the road. Use that moment to get on top of you, and then get to work, beat with your codes. (In a fight against someone much larger than you, your smallest fists will not be effective.)

Death from thousand cuts (or graffi or whatever)

In defined, you are trying to carry your assaulting out until you can move or help comes – or, ideally give up. Chooljian says using whatever tactics you can. Eyes eyes, flush in the face, your knees in the groin. “One of my favorites is the fish hook,” says, show you tugging you the mouth side with his finger. “All I could really start beating.”

To use their legs

If you fall on your ass I don’t get the results you want, you have other options. If you are lying on an elevated surface as a table, as a plane BallerinaYou can use the lever and proximity of your attacker to your advantage. Get in what stunt world is called a “triangle.” You know the move; You probably first seen in the movies. To execute, lift your hips, wrap a leg back to the person’s neck, after your leg around, closed the knee. Then to blow. “So, his head is between my legs, Basque”, Chooljian says.

Someone can be a weapon keeps it well

In the whole struggle always look around for the instruments that can help you. The cord on a curling iron? That will do. A candlestick? Why not? It worked in Track. I am “, If I am in a bar and are not trusting in a situation, the first thing I have a bottle,” Chooljian says.

If all else fails, go for the groin

Is the one who the movement that the chooljian says its goes when it makes it louder, stronger, you’re clicking, but you know what? Works. “