This next technique involves a block, redirection and roundhouse kick. We will combine the three to create a disabling effect on the attacker. When someone comes at you, as intimidating as they might look physically, they are usually going to use their hands to control you. An X-block is designed to redirect or capture and control an assailant's wrist/arm by redirecting the forward energy of his reach/punch. Throwing your hands up in such a way that, although not touching, one wrist crosses the other with your left hand slightly out front. Should he reach or punch at you, your hands will be in such a position that his wrist/arm will enter the center of the X you've created with your arms. You will redirect his arm with a flinging motion as you slightly turn your shoulders in the same direction. At this point you will bring your right leg up for a roundhouse kick to either the inside or outside of the closest knee. If for any reason your aren't able to kick you can step on his closest foot and push/strike. If your are a very small person it is likely that your kick won't do enough damage to take him down, so instead, employee the foot trap that you learned in the first technique and push him down. You are not learning to stand and fight, but to disable and escape further harm.