Any check that when enacted confounds or otherwise impedes the ability for immediate use of any weapon.

Comments:

This term refers to only one main characteristic of the overall checking maneuver. Because of this, the same checking maneuver can potentially be referred to in different ways or through a combination of characteristics.

Detaining Checks are most often temporary and part of an offensive maneuver, where the Path of Travel of that maneuver intersects with a limb (or any Environmental Object) causing a momentary detainment of that weapon.

Since the term is generic in nature nearly any type of check may be used to create a Detaining Check.

For more information about this subject see Check.

Synonym(s):

Check

Example(s):

See Ricocheting Strike.

Related Definition(s):

Block, Bounce, Cover, Guard, Move, Position

Related Term(s):

Area Check, Body Alignment, Bracing Check, Burdening Check, Cocking Check, Collapsing Check, Cross Check, Defensive Check, Dipping Check, Double Check, Grabbing Check, Gravitational Check, Hugging Check, Jamming Check, Lock-out, Nudging Check, Offensive Check, Parrying Check, Patting Check, Pinning Check, Positioned Check, Pressing Check, Pushing Check, Rebounding Check, Recoiling Check, Rolling Check, Roving Check, Skip Check, Slap Check, Sliding Check, Striking Check, Twirling Check

Related Basic(s):

Positioned Block