Funnily enough there is a difference between the Close Quarter Combat H2H method and Geoff Thompson on this very issue.
CQC guys tend to want you to hit with a barrage of strikes, even going as far as saying NEVER use only one strike. But Geoff Thompson recommends practicing 1 technique as a pre emptive strike, and get it so good that you only need to hit once to get the knockout, or at least buy enough time to run.
I think, under stress, it is very easy to not hit squarely with your "all or nothing" strike, and some techniques flow so well from one to the other I would like to give him at least three beauties to remember me by....... And then run (in case of frineds round the corner etc.) This way you get much more of a chance of removing him as a threat, yet only increase the time you're there by a second or two.
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