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You should always try to strike out from the body in a way that doesn’t cause your shape to change or “break.” If you move your elbow laterally away from your side, the shape that you present to your assailant will change, giving them advance warning of your punch. We refer to this as “Breaking Shape.” To avoid this happening, we maintain the idea of keeping the silhouette our aggressor sees the same. Conversely, you should try to put your assailant in positions where they are forced to break their shape as part of their attack.

When striking/punching, we want to give as little warning as possible. To achieve this we want to change our body shape as little as possible. You can see in the following sequence that when an attacker throws a big “circular” strike, their whole body shape changes. First they pull back their striking arm—this is when you should start to respond.

Here, the attacker’s shape has completely changed, or “broken,” as their arm comes out to start the strike. Compare this with the minimal change in shape of the body in the sequence demonstrating “straight punches” (see pages ssss1).