Defence Form- Movement No. 4: Lower Parry and Uppercut
Hello, everyone and welcome back. I am sure that many of you who do Karate, Tang Soo Do, Taekwondo, Wing Chun- or any kind of Asian striking martial art that has forms- would find a move that looks like this in one of their forms. During the early stages of my Karate training I was told that this is two blocks, executed simultaneously. As I progressed, however, our Sensei began teaching us how either the low parry could be a midsection punch while the other arm is blocking or that the high forearm block was either a vertical backfist strike or an upperut while the other arm was actually executing a lower parry. In my form it is either a lower parry combined with an uppercut or a lower parry combined with an upside down fist punch to the midsection. The very first application that came to my mind, which is not shown in any of the gifs here, is attacking a stationary opponent that was standing in a typical kamae. An example of Ken No Sen as described in the Book of Five R...