Crashing Cymbals

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What is your take on the technique, Crashing Cymbals? Is there a way of executing it better or to create a more powerful move?

The way I learned this:

Attacker comes and grabs you in a front bear hug, your arms free.

You do a double palm strike against the sides of his head and move forward to rake your fingers in his eyes.

You bring your right knee up to his groin/stomach.

Simultaneously step back with your right foot into a pivot stance while executing a right punch to the solar plexus. Left hand is the check above your right punch.

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Iv'e never formaly been taught this tech but since you ask what my take is... I would crash the ears just like you said but i would recoil with both hands back to my head. Once he let go, I would use my left to either rake the eyes or grab his hair(?) and pull his head back as I established a left neutral. I would then follow with a right hammer fist through his jaw toward his right collar bone. Then I would use both hands to pull him in to a knee strike to the chest. And cover out:D
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The truth is I've never even heard of this tech besides seeing it in a Burt Reynolds movie. Is it a Tracy's ?
 

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Instead of punching at the end I think that I might settle back into a left neutral bow with an inward elbow to the side of the head. Maybe by grabbing their left collar with my right hand to execute the elbow plus keeping my right hand checking/grabbing clothing might be what I would prefer. Also, probably execute a half cover out to set up the back kick before exiting. :asian:
 
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Originally posted by Touch'O'Death
The truth is I've never even heard of this tech besides seeing it in a Burt Reynolds movie. Is it a Tracy's ?

No, not Tracy's, unless they renamed it as something else since I know many techs are the same or similar within both Tracy's and EPAK.

It is an EPAK technique, but not all schools teach this. It may be one of these old techniques that were later taken out of some schools' curricula. My instructor showed me that it is in the book written by Ed Parker. As to why some schools have it and some don't, I guess it's at the discretion of the lead instructors.

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Originally posted by Touch'O'Death
What's a pivot stance?

Well, it's a neutral bow stance that pivots into a forward bow stance while punching.

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Originally posted by jfarnsworth
Instead of punching at the end I think that I might settle back into a left neutral bow with an inward elbow to the side of the head. Maybe by grabbing their left collar with my right hand to execute the elbow plus keeping my right hand checking/grabbing clothing might be what I would prefer. Also, probably execute a half cover out to set up the back kick before exiting. :asian:

I assume you mean using the left elbow, correct?

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Originally posted by Ceicei
Well, it's a neutral bow stance that pivots into a forward bow stance while punching.

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So what your saying is that the motion of pivoting into a foward bow out of a neutral is called a pivot stance? Isn't that sort of nouning a verb?
 
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Originally posted by Touch'O'Death
So what your saying is that the motion of pivoting into a foward bow out of a neutral is called a pivot stance? Isn't that sort of nouning a verb?

Yes, it is making the verb "pivot" into a noun "pivot stance" so that the students know the action required to do it. I guess it's a lot shorter than saying "from a neutral bow, pivot into a forward bow while doing a punch".

Not all our tech descriptions have the "PS" in it. Most of them have the standard terminology we use. I know one instructor at my school who had re-written a few techs into more simple steps for his students to follow and he favors describing it that way.

Looks like I'm picking up his description tendency...

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