FearlessFreep
Senior Master
Could be a terminology issue too. When I say block or defense, I'm not talking about a down block etc. I'm talking aobut keeping you hands up so that your target areas are protected. Blocking a kick just because my arms are up is not an incidental block. That's the whole point of keeping the hands up in the first place.
Yeah, terminology
We focus more on evasions than downblocks to defend against a kick for example. If you came with a roundhouse attack, I'd be more likely to evade bakwards or laterally and counterstrike from that position than I would be to downblock our outerblock your attack and strike back from my original position. Our instructor puts a very strong emphasis, though, on keeping your hands and arms up in a defensive posture. Once when sparring him, he lightly kicked me in the chin just to remind me to keep my guard up.What I meant by 'incidental' is more like in the middle of a melee you would naturally block a kick with a downblock, etc...but that's not normally the first line of defense.
