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dhogsette
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Pinan Shodan Simultaneous Chest Block and Front Kick

Here are three possible applications for the simultaneous chest block and front kick from Pinan Shodan that I'm teaching my students. The first uses the principle of getting to the rear of the attacker as a follow up to the opening sequence techniques, an approach that Iain and others here have demonstrated. The other two examples apply the sequence as a defense against an attack from the rear and from the side.

Best,

David 

Marc
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Good stuff, David.

In addition to the applications you show I like how you always indicate starting to run away after finishing your applications. That is an important part of the drill. Sometimes in training people step offline and strike like they're supposed to and then --- they drop their hands and step back in front of their opponent to practice again. That's a really bad habbit. Instead they should run or at least raise their hands (open palms), take a step away and look left/right for other threats.

Take care,

Marc  

dhogsette
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Marc,

Thanks so much! Yes, I'm working hard with my students (and myself) to drill a "fight to escape" mentality and to work that response into all our drills, including kihon pad drills. So helpful. I need to do a better job of getting students to look around as they are escaping. Thanks for the reminder!

Best,

David 

Iain Abernethy
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Thanks for sharing Dave!

dhogsette wrote:
Thanks so much! Yes, I'm working hard with my students (and myself) to drill a "fight to escape" mentality and to work that response into all our drills, including kihon pad drills.

So important to drill in a way that reflects the objective. We need to create good “habits” so under stress we are much more likely to seek escape (the right thing to do tactically and legally). Most martial artists treat self-defence as a “street fight” (i.e. a fight in the street, but still a fight) and hence operate in a “fighting” way; which can be problematic. Escaping to safety is the right way to go … and if we don’t practise escaping, we won’t be good at it. As Archilochus wisely said, “We do not rise to the level or our expectations, we fall to the level of our training”.

All the best,

Iain