golok
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Blocks and Parries
Something I've noticed about the karate I've seen is that the hard blocks appear, in fact, to be limb destructions, and the actual block should be a pat parry immediately preceding the hard block.
In the case of an outward block of a straight punch, the initial pat parry redirects the blow, and then the outward block strikes either the elbow or the humerus.
I think in many schools, this is not understood even if it's taught at all.
In kali, the outward and inward blocks are performed with backfist and knocking-fist blows respectively, and they're performed with a snapping or whiplike energy rather than the rigid blocks I often see in karate people.
The degree of twist of the hand delivering the block-- whether the palm is facing you as in karate or facing inward-- also has some impact on defense against a knife. The classical japanese method with the palm facing you is probably better against someone who has the knife in reverse edge-out grip because it exposes less of the arm to slashes, but it's very vulnerable to someone with the knife in an edge-in grip because it exposes the veins much more effectively to trap-and-shear: the blade comes behind your arm and then retracts, shearing veins on the way out.
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4/27/2006, 3:28 pm
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charleswong
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Re: Blocks and Parries
Well said. In Kissaki Kai, we employed palm out as a general defensive fence against an unarmed potential attacker. It also allows the public to see that we are NOT the aggressor. But against edge weapon, generally the palm will be face in so the less veins are expose to slashing kinda attacks. Must attacker just slash and stab, unlike a trained knife-fighter. We have an AMOK certified instructor who trains with us for unarmed fighting. How different is that from Kali?
I would agreed with you that most Karate style (esp. Shotokan) use hard blocks and chambering the other hand, which IMHO is downright silly. In Kissaki Kai, we never employ typical hard Karate "blocks" at all. Most the time, the forearm and knife-arm are use as strikes.
Parrying is fine within a certain distance. But within punching length, it probably better to just shield & deflect like a boxer, or weave and slip. We trained a modified version of boxing defence called Crazy Monkey for this.
Thanks for sharing.
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4/28/2006, 6:03 pm
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