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One cannot always distinguish between the appearance of the tekko and that of the knives. [8] Westerners came in contact with Okinawan martial art in the 1940s. [citation needed] The trench knife, and Western brass knuckles, date back to World War I [9] (with pictures of the "brass knuckle handle" trench knife dating back to 1917).
Kumate: Bear Claw, or Tiger Claw strike; Seiryuto: Ox-Jaw Strike; Heiko Seiryuto: Parallel or double Ox-Jaw Strike (e.g. in the kata, Gojushiho Sho) Kokuto: crane head strike; Washite: Eagle hand or, eagle claw strike (e.g. in the kata, Gojushiho Dai) Keito: Chicken head strike; Age Keito: Rising Chicken head strike
The typical weapon of Silat Harimau is a small hand-held knife shaped like a tiger's claw. The western world calls it Karambit and in Indonesia it is called Kerambit / Karambiak. This weapon is the original weapon of the Minangkabau people. This weapon is dangerous because it can be used to slash or tear the opponent's limbs quickly and undetected.
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xing wu quan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the ...
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The karambit or kerambit (as used in Indonesian), kurambik or karambiak (both from the Minangkabau language) is a small curved knife resembling a claw. It is most closely associated with the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia, but is also found throughout other ethnic groups in Southeast Asia.
Open-hand strikes include various techniques used in the martial arts to attack or defend without curling the hand into a fist. The most famous of these techniques is probably the so-called "karate chop", which is also described as a knife-hand strike (shuto uchi) although there are many other techniques. A spear-hand or nukite. Some of these are:
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