Form Overview

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Form Overview

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The major information compiled from an analysis of this form is:

it is self-defense based

it limits the attacks to grabs, hugs and holds, locks and chokes, and pushes (a.k.a. "dead handed" and "semi-live")

it uses a variety of elbow strikes (a.k.a. close range upper body strikes)

it demonstrates the back stance as the theme stance (and to a lesser degree the reverse bow)

 

Major Principles / Theories / Concepts:

Counter-grab

Defensive Offense (Offensive Defense [re-introduced])

Destabilize (Take-Down)

Gauging

Object Obscurity

Obscure Zone

Purposeful Compliance

Purposeful Defiance

Spacial Cocking

Zone Isolation

 

Major Physical Reverses / Opposites / Categories:

new beginning stance (attention)

new offenses: head butt, knee, stomp, break, pinch, scoop kick

new defenses: parry, pin, clear, counter-grab, smother,

new stances: attention, natural, back

new maneuvers: buckle, scissor, peel-off, float, vise-like