Last Night at the Fu
Last night at Kung Fu we learned a unique block. An attacker moves to kick you in the chest with a roundhouse. You take your closest elbow, arm pointing to the ground, and in one motion turn it away from your body and then twist your hand like you were opening a jar of pickles.*
When you twist your arm like this, your radius slams against your attacker’s shin.
The pain delivered to the attacker is Intense.
As an example of this pain the head instructor asked me to kick him in the chest so he could demonstrate the move. I performed a simple roundhouse. He performed the block.
I reared away in pain! It was brutal!
One of the other students asked a question about the technique, so the instructor asked me to kick him again.
And I couldn’t do it. After one kick I had already been conditioned to believe that kicking him lead to extreme pain. I brought my leg up and performed the most pansy kick you could ever imagine. It was pathetic.
If anyone is interested in learning this move, I’ll be happy to share. It’s pretty simple, and quite effective.
*the pickle analogy is right on. In fact, they use it to explain the move in class.
UPDATE: Ryan made the astute observation that if you’re performing the move with your LEFT arm, you’d actually be tightening the pickle jar.
Man, attackers move to kick me in the chest with a roundhouse all the time, it’s really a buzz kill.
Worry no longer my good friend! With this patented move, you can condition your attackers to cower in fear instead of roundhousing you in the chest! This technique has been shown to be extremely effective against:
Aggressive Ninjas
Belligerent Drunks
Hostile Terrorists
Kick Crazy Homeless People
Never will you find your buzz killed again.
When you get home can you take a video of this? I can’t fully grasp how to do it without a visual aid. and I’m not talking about glasses or contacts.
Me either Kurt, I am totally at a loss. Even after talking to the D extensively over the gmail chatterbox. I don’t even like pickles!
What’s the radius? This is currently preventing me from effectively imagining I am fighting off ninjas with this Extreme Technique(TM).
It’s half the diameter, or the square root of the area divided by Pi.
Your forearm is constructed of two bones. Your Ulna and your radius. Your radius is the bone that connects to your wrist under your thumb while your ulna connects under your pinky. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius_%28bone%29
Kurt is correct.
however, his explanation makes me realize that I had the two bones switched in my mind. It is in fact the Ulna that comes in contact with your opponent’s shin.
allright…now that we figured that out…I was wondering how the hell the inside of your arm would swing out and hit a leg. Lets see if I can figure this out now that we know you are no anatomy major.
Nope. Don’t get it. I think where I am having problems is at the initial position of the arm. is it hanging at the side of your body? Is it up in some stance? Should my hips be rotated? I really want to figure this bad boy out. Can you post a video of jesse kicking you and you blocking it?
Yes. Videos.
And whereabouts is that on my arm?
Mike tried to teach me the intensity yesterday. I kicked, it hurt. Then I tried to do the block as he kicked, but if you don’t do it right, it really hurts your arm (who wants to guess if I did it right?).
So what did I get out of this?… Today I have a sore leg and sore arm, and Mike got to smash my leg and kick me! I will be party to no video unless I’mbehind the lens. Stupid Kung Fu…
Dammit…I wish I was there to see it! It must have been hilarious…why wasn’t anyone taping the two fo you doing this?