Anatomically we are at disadvantage when going toe to toe with a quadrupedal, who have a much better centre of gravity that helps them stabilize quicker. Once we fall down, it is game over.
So the trick is to lower myself as low as possible and have better balance first and foremost, and then wait....
Whoever makes the first move in this encounter is going to be at an disadvantage, if they make it, then it is wonderful but if they don't then the brief moment when they are mid air or just reeling back from having failed to catch...Boom! The opponent gets the perfect counter, which is very easy to take advantage of..even for a noob.
And that is what I'll bet on, I'll wait till the wolf can't stay calm and makes the move. Then when its fangs are just about to rip my jugular off I'll twist myself and lodge my left forearm all the way back to the lips edge...sure it'll hurt and probably even crush my arm but lodging it way behind its frontal canines will atleast give it a chance to not be split apart and most importantly I just locked its head without any room for maneuver. With the other free arm I'll pincer attack its eye with my nails digging deep into its sockets and scraping away the eyeball to make way till the brain.
I'll probably have to shove half my right forearm into its eyes and still I'll hit the few bones and won't actually be able to get to the brains but that doesn't matter, I have already torn several major arteries, just pulling my hand out will be like opening the floodgates.
By now I've lost senses in my left arm, the wolf is still probably struggling to remove itself from hold and is in terrible pain of its own, obviously its eyes were gauged out and its bleeding profusely, so while it's struggling it won't forget to inflict just as much pain to its attacker and thus will twist, shake and grind its jaws to rip my arm off.
I bite my teeth, holding in the soul shredding pain, just few more moments and the wolf would lose too much blood to stay conscious enough to struggle more.
I could see the stream of blood flowing down like the niagra from its empty eye socket, and I could also see my blood gushing out at the sides of its jaws. My bloody right hand now holding the wolf down on its back, to make sure its deadly claws don't get in the fight. With them i would be outmatched in a blink of an eye.
Not that it is working that well, the blood is making it difficult to get grip on its furry hide, and my own loss of blood is starting to get to my head. The light headedness could be the end of me...
It's down to who could hold on long enough...
Our growls intermingle in the backdrop of the jungle noise, giving it a brutal vibrance. The mid day sun light giving the trees and shrubs a yellow glow, the splattered blood in stark contrast shining eerily and sucking in the sun's light like a black hole.
All I can see now is blurry lines, I don't know if I'm holding down the wolf anymore i can't seem to sense my right arm as well now "So I was the one to kick the bucket huh? Glurggggh" something sticky and metallic choked my throat, I spit it out to see the red black liquid trickling down on the dirt.
I didn't feel any pain, but that helped me regain some sense of my body. I'm hurled over, my head sideways and both of whatever remains of my arms laying near my curled up knees.
I can't make out the wolf, 'Has it left me to bleed here? Not even worthy of a meal..pssk' wallowing at my own thoughts I gather whatever strength I can muster to get up.
Pain!
So much pain!
I didn't know where it was coming from, more exactly where it was not coming from. It felt like fire being lit in my muscles, my right hand immediately gave away and I hit the dirt hard, making my head dizzy once again.
And that was the last memory I have of that fateful encounter. I don't remember much of what happened later, but when I next woke up I was on a bed staring at the hospital ceiling.
The rangers told me they found a wolf carcass by my side, laying in a pool of dried blood with one of its eyes missing...
That my kids, is how I felled a wolf on my own.