A Positioned Cover that is created on the practitioner's own body by using the body to stop (e.g. slap) the travel of the moving limb.

Comments:

This term is a misnomer in that it is not really a check in the true sense of the term - rather a cover. But the term takes advantage of the fact that the terms cover and check are often used interchangeably.

Slap Checks are most commonly used as a timing mechanism for syncing various body parts, often as an element of achieving Body Harmony.

Slap Checks are often misunderstood and/or misinterpreted because they obscure the fact that the Slap Check can easily be transformed into an offensive maneuver (such a slice or heel-palm) with a simple adjustment to its Path of Travel and weapon formation.

The Slap Check is where American Kenpo gets its derogatory nick-name - "the slap art". This is due to the previous statements.

Slap Checks are closely associated with the saying: "In order to turn a defense into an offense, expand the circle. In order to turn an offense into a defense contract the circle."

Technically speaking this is a method of contouring.

For more information about this subject see Check.

Synonym(s):

Check, Cover

Example(s):

Forcefully raising your open hand to the shoulder area has you deliver a straight heel-palm strike with the opposite hand demonstrates a Slap Check.

Related Definition(s):

Block, Contour, Cover, Guard, Move, Press, Position

Related Term(s):

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

Related Basic(s):

Positioned Block