When is the BEST moment to hit your attacker in a Street Fight? How to fight and defend yourself requires effect fighting techniques and no nonsense if you want to be safe in the street. When someone squares off against you in an argument or a street fight he is vulnerable to a short distance punch to the Solar Plexus. Partly because the distance is close quarter, but also because the punch is simply out of sight, people just don’t see it coming. In this instant you can literally knock someone o