Armored Combat:Conventions of combat - Target areas - Legal target areas

Legal target areas

Torso

All of the body (excluding head and arms) above the points of the hips, groin, shoulder blades, and the area between the neck and shoulders.

Face

The area between the chin and the middle of the forehead and between the ear openings.

Head

The whole head and neck except for the face as defined above.

Leg

1. Thigh: The leg from 1 inch (25.4 mm) above the top of the knee to a line even with the bottom of the hip socket.
2. Hip: Area between the bottom of the hip socket to the point of the hip (top of the iliac crest).

Shoulder

From the point of the shoulder (acromion) down to a line even with the top of the underarm.

Arms

From the shoulders to 1 inch (25.4 mm) above the wrist joints (the distal ends of the radius and ulna).