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[TAC]

... what is it? I've heard this term used but have never actually seen it as a technique. Can some less stupid-er than me please explain?

Thanks

Sharif

[Vrkah]

Don't know it myself, but maybe: Punch him as hard as you can and than run like a rabbit? *g*

Vrkaj
Si vis pacem, para bellum.

[mleone]

A rabbit punch is a punch to the back of the head. This is dangerous because it can damage the brain stem.

 

[TAC]

To the back of the head, eh? Hmmm, I once read somewhere about somebody getting rabbit punched in the face, so I thought it was a kind of punch like a hammer fist or something.

[Nick Hughes]

The way it was explained to me was that when hunters went out to their traps to gather the game they'd caught - in this case rabbits - they'd kill the rabbit by holding it by the ears and using an edge of hand strike (aka Judo chop) across the back of the neck in line with the base of the ears.

N

[Hock]

and...

I have been told and read (and I will stumble upon it here somewhere) that a rabbit punch is ANY strike that is illegal in boxing. I have always used that reference. This might explain the many variations people think they are.

That shot mentioned to the back of the head, more specifically the lower head/upper neck...boy, hammerfists there in a clinch or a ground fight will send an electric, jarring, knumbing pain through the head, rattle your fillings...multiple ones like non-stop pistons...wow!

You know if its illegal? Its GOOOOOD!

Hock

[jaybo]

I have allways been told that a rabbit punch was a blow to the back of the neck.

For what it's worth I have used a rabbit punch to actualy kill a rabbit.
Or in this cace a rabbit chop, hear's how it was performed.

First hold the rabbit by the hind legs and let it hang head down for a few second until the rabbit relaxes a bit and allows it's body to strech out, then give a quick blow to the neck at the base of the skull at a downward angle about 45 degrees with a knife hand, Ax hand blow.  Snaps the rabbits neck just like that.

While I'm thinking about it Hock why don't you teach the Knife hand or Ax hand in your system?? I've always wondered about that and never heard a reason why.

[TwoGun]

Picture this if you can.  Hold both hands in fist, palms down under your chin with knuckles forward.  Now punch.  Image an rabbit standing in its hind legs and doing this.  That is what I've always heard called a rabbit punch.  Not very effective or powerful, mostly used by untrained and uncoordinated folks.

But hey, I could be wrong...

[Hock]

While I'm thinking about it Hock why don't you teach the Knife hand or Ax hand in your system?? I've always wondered about that and never heard a reason why.

ahhh, that's kinda the hammer fist in level 4, same motion, same applications, just zero worries about the fingers.

Hock

[TAC]

I dig the closed fist over open palm thing. But when it comes to shots anywhere on the neck (esp. between the shoulder and the ear) I can't give up my open-handed-karate-style-judo-chop-knife-hand. Just fits in so nicely.

Sharif

[Hock]

You can really "slim-out" that hammer fist your into...dare I say..a "tiger's paw" kind of thin fist. It doesn't have to be a round, boxing fist.

I remember through time, the various mandatory finger positions different karate schools made me take. There is one system on record that mandated a 90 degree angle for the fingers at the knuckle. Yes! Really awkward. But most were concerned with flexing the pinky in some manner to prevent the fingers from getting hurt. In Parker Kenpo the hand and fingers had to be just so bent...

The hammer hand, with topside and bottom-side striking surfaces is so versatile and the open hand knife-hand "chop" is actually needed on such a little occasion, I just couldn't justify making an entire module for entire level on it.

Hock

[Nick Hughes]

PS:  If you do a google search on rabbit punch it comes up as a "short chopping blow to the back of the neck" in the first five online dictionaries.

N

[TwoGun]

Hmm...  It seems like it should be called a rabbit chop instead of a rabbit punch.

[Nick Hughes]

I remember it being called just that when I was a kid.  I think the punch was added later...similar to how nunchakus have become numbchucks

[Wardog]

 Then I'll rabbit punch a guy if I can hold him up by his feet. He will have to be a small guy and he will have to have really pissed me off.