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Old 08-16-2012, 07:39 AM   #3
Basia Halliop
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Uncommitted Attacks & "Competition-style" Attacks

Hmm, you're making me want to get a friend and try this a lot more -- I've done it from time to time but not a huge amount. How about get out of the way of the punch (e.g. using you arm to 'block' only in the sense of protecting your body, not to try to stop or move their punch) and get behind uke and do something un-arm related? Or deflect their elbow with your own arm and maybe then see if you can keep your arm stuck to their elbow and follow it back? Just ideas to try...

Even with punches that don't have a rapid pull-back I've pretty much always been told _not_ to try to literally catch punches. And I've also generally always been told to focus on body positioning and let things with the arms follow from that. So not sure what specifically you're doing or should be doing, but I wonder if the beginning of your answer might come from thinking more about getting in an advantageous position and less about uke's actual arm.
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