kenpo3631
Black Belt
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- #41
"Your opponent has many weapons to include two arms and two legs. If you step to 1:30 you are walking into the opponents back up weapon."
It works on the clock principle...if you step to 1:30 his left fist will br there to meet you.
With the parry and block, you do move out of the way, as well, since you are shooting over to that cat stance. And, yes, I see the wrist grab as a nice bonus, not a requirement.
I read this alot. I teach and have been taught that the block...is actually a position check. In essence you you are moving and putting your hands in a guarding position, just in case the roundhouse gets in there.
That it is a beginners tech may be why it is written for overhead club instead of roundhouse club -- it's easier to deal with overhead than round.
Didn't you say you teach your students that the attack is a roundhouse club? How do you teach them to deal with it? Or was that someone else?
I teach it for an overhead, and we incorporate the roundhouse in to the base technique.
No, I haven't been hit by an escrima stick, but I don't have to get hit with the stick. If the stick hits, I failed.
Sorry. I didn't mean to sound condensending
BTW, I think we have a slightly different idea of what "what if" means. I think you are seeing it as "what if the first step didn't work". I, possibly because of my limited experience dealing with "what if's", see it as dealing with a lot of things, including "what if the guy is feingting, what if the first move doesn't work, what if the guy is throwing a combo, what if..." and a dozen other things. Basically, taking the movement already learned and finding other situations where it will work, situations where it won't, ways to counter it, and what to do if it is countered. My understanding may be too vague and all-encompassing. I don't claim to understand the "what if" or "formulation" stuff yet. I can't.
You're right we are looking at it different, but your points are completely valid...that's the beauty of Kenpo. Don't ever run out of questions... :asian: