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The knifehand strike can be used with either side of the hand. Having the thumb tucked in, leaving the fore finger side of the hand free, allows that side of the hand to be used as a striking surface. This is called an inside knifehand where as the pinkie finger side is called an outside knifehand. [8]
A palm-strike. 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.
Delivered just as with a punch except that the hand is held open like with a knife hand. The intended striking area are the tips of the fingers. The ideal targets are the eyes and throat. This technique is generally unsuitable against most other targets due to the high probability of it breaking one's fingers.
The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn’t match the one mapped out in the rule book.
The type of throw used is highly influenced by the properties of the projectile: small, heavy objects are held and pushed away from the body (e.g. shot put); [7] handled objects are swung and released with one or two hands (e.g. weight throw, keg toss); [8] [9] smaller, lighter objects such as balls and darts tend to use an extended overarm ...
Demonstration of pitching techniques. In baseball, the pitch is the act of throwing the baseball toward home plate to start a play. The term comes from the Knickerbocker Rules. Originally, the ball had to be thrown underhand, much like "pitching in horseshoes". Overhand pitching was not allowed in baseball until 1884.
Shuto Uchi: Knifehand strike; Shuto Yoko Ganmen Uchi (knife-hand strike to head) Shuto Sakotsu Uchikomi (driving knife-hand to sternum) Shuto Sakotsu Uchi (knife-hand strike to clavicle) Shuto Hizo Uchi (knife-hand strike to spleen) Shuto Jodan Uchi (inside knife-hand to neck) Sokumen Empi Uchi: Augmented elbow strike (e.g. in the kata, Tekki ...
Mariano Rivera, closer for the New York Yankees, having come set Jimmy Haynes of the Cincinnati Reds, pitching from the set, just before the time of pitch. A pitcher is in the set when, with the ball, they stand on, or directly in front of—and touching—the pitching rubber, with their toes pointing toward the side (toward third base for a right-handed pitcher) and their arms apart at their ...