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Fuck yeah! Apple Martini here I come!
The question is... To Gi or not to Gi?
The question is... To Gi or not to Gi?
I've done it. In the Karate I used to do when I was a kid, we called it a ridgehand. It actually works really well is someone is coming at you. I've done it twice in a real fight. You kinda swing it like a haymaker, but it works best when you sidestep and hit you are off to their side.
OK, like this; aggro guy steps foreward to throw a right hand. i raise my left, but step out to the left and foreward, then throw the ridgehand hard to the face. It is naturally positioned to come in over his arms.
The first time it was a jock kinda guy, a little smaller than me, and it went just like that. He turned his head and it hit him right in the side of the head, and he fell down, and couldn't get up. This was in High School.
The second, was against my huge overweight brother in law. He was buffalo charging me and I threw it right on his nose, and he stumbled over backward, so I kept punching until he fell down and then tried to knee him in the head, but his brother shoved me off. He's like 340, way fat, too fat to fight.
Go look at the Keith Hackney fight against Yarborough. That wild overhand right palm strike he throws is pretty much the same movement, you are just hitting with the wrist and that hard bone at the base of the thumb.
I guess im an idiot, but how do you point your palm downward and point your fingers toward your triceps? Picture or diagram?
Interesting read but it seems like the author was just ellaborating common sense into an overly complex and convaluted mess in order to sound highly intelligible... for example:
Eh...didn't Keith Hackney use a "sword hand" on Yarborough?
Didn't knock him out, but he lost his balance.