Thinking
this morning of facing a really violent attack where the opponent starts moving
towards you. Either with a straight strike, a hooking strike on a strong grab
to your shoulder. Does not matter is they are using their right or left hand.
They just start exploding towards you.
What
is most important is that you act immediately
1
As they begin their attack, explode into it, your focus is approximately 6
inches before their shoulder. No matter which attack they are using it has to
move through that point, and at that point they are moving slower than at the
intended conclusion of the attack.
2. Raise your hands into the pre-block stage
where both hands cross each other. It is fastest if they are open hands.
That
position creates an “X” formation so that the “>” of the “X” can be used as a moving forward
deflection of their arm. Your forward momentum
create a force behind your “X” formation that create the deflection from your
opining response.
3.
Having reached that 6 inch location
deflecting their strike/grab away from your center line, you unleash what the “X” has
formed.
A.
The
left hand/arm immediately strikes them in their jaw.
B.
The
right hand becomes a powerful slicing movement into their side ribs or their
armpit.
This
becomes a simultaneous double strike.
Does
not matter whether they step forward with their right of left foot, nor whether
arm they employ with their strike/grab.
Additional
Force Multiplier
to consider. The foot you step out with can also be used to disrupt their
stepping motion. You can stomp on their foot, direct a kick step towards their
ankle or to the rear of the ankle.
Note: I learned a variation of this possible use of
the opening X formation prior to the Seisan LFF Side block from the late Sherman Harrill. Also the use of the slashing
hand returning to chamber from his teaching too. Moving the parrying left hand
into an immediate strike came from Ernest Rothrock’s
Jing do Studies. I just realized how
those could be combined.
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