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Technique of the Month - May 2004
Shielding
Hammer
(left hooking punch
defense)
From a natural stance:
- Step back into a right neutral bow with a right outward external block; the left hand covers the midsection.
- Deliver a right inward diagonal raking back knuckle to the opponent's nose followed by a right dipping elbow to the opponent's solar plexus; the left hand covers high.
Beginner Student Questions
- What other attack(s) could this technique work against?
- Why is the elbow delivered in a dipping manner instead of a traditional outward (horizontal) line?
Advanced Student Questions
- Why is it important to stress the attack as a "hooking" punch?
- What beginner technique before this one introduces the inward dialog knuckle rake? What does that rake (in the previous technique) accomplish? Why is it done in this technique?
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