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  • Bend your right elbow, bring fist up and inside your left arm, across your chest and toward your opponent in a backfist.

    Notes to Myself Steve Perry 2009

  • Move through backfist position smoothly this looks like one continuous move to:

    Notes to Myself Steve Perry 2009

  • Move through backfist position smoothly this looks like one continuous move to:

    Archive 2009-10-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • My left hand shot out, catching his wrist and pushing the gun upward as I gave him a backfist to his hooked nose.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • My left hand shot out, catching his wrist and pushing the gun upward as I gave him a backfist to his hooked nose.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • Bend your right elbow, bring fist up and inside your left arm, across your chest and toward your opponent in a backfist.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • My left hand shot out, catching his wrist and pushing the gun upward as I gave him a backfist to his hooked nose.

    I Am Not A Psychic! Richard Belzer 2009

  • John Makdessi knocks out Kyle Watson with a spinning backfist at UFC 129 on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

    SI.com 2011

  • John Makdessi knocks out Kyle Watson with a spinning backfist at UFC 129 on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

    SI.com 2011

  • If you re-watch the fight he got hit HARD with a spinning backfist that I think was the one that really wobbled him.

    Bloody Elbow 2010

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