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Cliarlaoch
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Hi, folks.
Noticed a curiosity a while ago with American Kang Duk Won, the style I'm training (er... more like instructing in... nevermind, personal pet peeve) in lately.
While executing a side kick, the instructors have been teaching me and the other students to form a "cup-and-saucer" (that is, one fist palm down above the other, palm up, opposite the direction of the kick), and then to extend out one fist above the kicking leg while the other guards the solar plexus during the kick itself. I remember learning the kick while keeping my guards in place (as in both in guard position in front of my chest and face) during the kick from another style, and I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me which, if either, is more common in TKD? And for that matter, which is better?
I prefer the guards in place, myself. Seems to make more sense in terms of being able to block counter techniques.
Just curious.
--Cliarlaoch
Noticed a curiosity a while ago with American Kang Duk Won, the style I'm training (er... more like instructing in... nevermind, personal pet peeve) in lately.
While executing a side kick, the instructors have been teaching me and the other students to form a "cup-and-saucer" (that is, one fist palm down above the other, palm up, opposite the direction of the kick), and then to extend out one fist above the kicking leg while the other guards the solar plexus during the kick itself. I remember learning the kick while keeping my guards in place (as in both in guard position in front of my chest and face) during the kick from another style, and I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me which, if either, is more common in TKD? And for that matter, which is better?
I prefer the guards in place, myself. Seems to make more sense in terms of being able to block counter techniques.
Just curious.
--Cliarlaoch