KT:The Step Thru or The Cross

[Clark Kent]

The Step Thru or The Cross
By MJS - Fri, 09 May 2008 15:24:25 GMT
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If we look at the way many people are originally told to attack when punching, we see them stepping thru to deliver the punch. In fact , many of the techniques are done off of a step thru punch. My question is: do any of you also train these same techniques off of a cross, where the opponent is not stepping? Do you find that you can still pull off the technique with them not stepping or do you make an adjustment to compensate for this?


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The Step Thru or The Cross
By MJS - Fri, 09 May 2008 15:24:25 GMT
Originally Posted at: KenpoTalk
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If we look at the way many people are originally told to attack when punching, we see them stepping thru to deliver the punch. In fact , many of the techniques are done off of a step thru punch. My question is: do any of you also train these same techniques off of a cross, where the opponent is not stepping? Do you find that you can still pull off the technique with them not stepping or do you make an adjustment to compensate for this?


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We do not train "step-through" punches except as a follow-up secondary punch according to realistic street situation mandates. All techniques are trained with feet equal distance from the victim, stepping forward with stiff straight, roundhouse, or hooking punches, and the appropriate follow up in multiple punch scenarios.

"Step-through" punches are a "cultural mandate" of "way" art disciplines, that bare little relationship to contemporary street fight self-defense scenario training. However, they do make the execution of some flawed techniques seem plausible to the unknowledgeable and inexperienced.

They are a result of a cross pollination of cultural art students to self-defense styles, where "basics" have given way to "technique application" training, while maintaining "old cultural" basics of step through punches with C-step footwork.