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Knifehand - 'Sonkal' is the Taekwondo name for a move similar to the "karate chop", i.e. where an open hand is hammered down to make impact with the underside. A ridgehand is the opposite, where the top of the open hand strikes. These are commonly made to the side of the neck.
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Flying claws (Chinese) Flying guillotine (Chinese) Kusari-fundo, manrikigusari, manriki (Japanese) Kusari-gama (Japanese) Kyoketsu-shoge (Japanese) Lasso, uurga, lariat (American, Chinese) Meteor hammer, dragon's fist, dai chui, flying hammer, sheng bao, liu xing chui (Chinese) Rope dart, jouhyou, rope javelin, sheng biao (Japanese, Chinese)
It starts off with circular abdominal massage to aid digestion by warming and supporting spleen yang, using the entire upper torso to move the hands. The arms are then poised to open and stretch the armpit activating the spleen's close relationship with Heart and Liver (Heart is the "mother" of spleen and liver stores xue) by stretching the flanks.
Manchu banner soldier, a caste of professional martial artists active in Chinese society as recently as a hundred years ago. Northern styles (北派; běipài) feature deeply extended postures—such as the horse, bow, drop, and dragon stances—connected by quick fluid transitions, able to quickly change the direction in which force is issued.
In martial arts, a knifehand strike is a strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist), familiar to many people as a karate chop (in Japanese, shutō-uchi).
Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw is an Oriental Adventures adventure scenario in which the player characters seek the Dragon Claw martial arts school and journey through T'u Lung to the Cult of the Black Leopard. [1] In this first edition Oriental Adventures module, a group of player characters return to large quest-based adventures.
Also known as low-angle discus lariat or dragon screw sets the attacking wrestler waiting for a charging opponent, the wrestler then takes a sidestep, extends an arm and lowers the upper body all at once in a swinging motion, turning up to 180 degrees, hooking the back of the opponent's nearest knee to trip them down to the mat back first.