Journey Begins
No Belt
- Side Stance fundamentals
- Basic Attacks
- Basic Blocks
- Moving Basics
- Principles
- Types of Punches and Kicks
- Kick attributes
- Positions of the foot
- No belt conditioning
Side Stance:A natural guarding posture used to minimize target areas and cover vital spots, while creating more distance for defense and power generation. The term we use for side stance is Yoko Dachi.
Basic Attacks
- Front Punch
- Back Punch
- Hook Punch
- Uppercut
- Overhand
- Inverted Fist
- Back Fist
- Ridge Hand
- Front Kick
- Back Front Kick
- Front Side Kick
- Back Side Kick
- Back Reverse Side Kick
- Front Crescent Kick
- Back Crescent Kick
- Spinning Crescent Kick
- Front Round Kick
- Back Round Kick
- Front Hook Kick, Front Elbow
- Back Hook Kick, Back Elbow
Blocks
- Sun Block
- Outside Block
- Inside Block
- Supported Knife hand block
- Rising Block
- Down Block
- X block
Moving Basics
- Stepping front punch (lunge punch, step behind, or step in front)
- Back Punch with a step
- Stepping front kick (Step behind or step in front)
- Step behind, step out back front kick
- Front side kick (step behind, slide step, or hopping)
- Step Behind, step out back side kick
- step in front crescent kick
- step behind back crescent kick
- Step in front round kick
- Step behind step out back round kick
- Hook kicks (same as side kicks)
Chakuchi:A replacement step used to close a distance and/or create momentum by sliding the rear foot forward.
4 Physical Principles:
- Maximum Muscle Contraction
- Speed with which force is applied
- Conditioned reflex response
- Breath Control
2 Psychological Principles:
- Strong will to discourage brutality and violence from any source
- Willpower, Confidence, Endurance
3 types of punches:
- Impact: damage target surface
- Compact: short range
- Compression: does damage beneath or beyond target surface
2 types of kicks
- Snapping kicks: Stationary Kick
- Driving Kick: Mobile Kick
3 kick attributes:
- Kiage: Stabbing kick
- Kikome: Thrusting or pushing kick
- Kiroshi:stomping or grinding kick
Positions of the foot:Ball blade, heel, arch, instep
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