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Old 08-05-2000, 04:22 AM   #36
andrea
Dojo: Tadashi Abe
Location: Imperia - Italy
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Defense agains kicks

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Chuck Clark wrote:
Think again, Andrea. The movements of kicks and punches are quite different due to the mechanical workings of the joints involved. Kicks tend to always work in arcs and punches can come at you in a very straight line.

If you always watch the center line and shoulders of the uke, you can see any pre-movement body shift to take weight off a leg in order to kick (this works for the punches, too). Arcs are also much easier to see and enter into.
Hi Clark,
I thinked, and the result is that arcs and straight line enter together in the field of ma-ai, as I wrote yesterday, so the problem is the attitude and not the "technics".
Yours sincerely
andrea
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