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Rising Block - Chookya Makgi is another basic Taekwondo block, used to defend against overhead attacks to the head and shoulders. The arm is bent and raised above the head, and the underside of the forearm absorbs the impact of the blow, which may be painful but is better than it connecting with your head or delicate clavicle.
Age-uke (上げ受け), which translates to "rising block", or "upward block" is the Japanese term for a technique used in martial arts.There numerous variations in how the technique might be executed, and nothing implicit in the term itself restricts its use to unarmed techniques.
In Korean martial arts such as taekwondo, these techniques are referred to as makgi (막기), with some examples being chukyeo makgi (rising block) and onkal daebi makgi (knifehand guarding block). Some martial arts, such as Capoeira, reject blocking techniques completely as they consider them too inefficient. In Capoeira, they use evasion ...
kakiwake uke: floating x block (e.g. in the kata, Heian yondan) morote uke: double forearm block (e.g. in the kata, Heian sandan) nagashi uke: rising palm sweep block (e.g. in the kata, Tekki shodan) osae uke: palm block; otoshi uke: dropping forearm block; shuto age uke: rising knife-hand block; shuto gedan barai: knife-hand sweeping low block
In an art relying heavily on kicks, the body's mass is usually shifted slightly to the back leg, making the front leg easier to lift and increasing the speed of kicks. Regardless of the exact stance, this is the most familiar stance for a martial artist. All other stances, blocks, and attacks flow from this stance.
Inspired to take up martial arts, Philoctete remembers doing push-ups and practicing his horse stance as he watched the series when he was 12, copying everything Kenichi did.
A palm block and a backfist strike, both performed on a supporting arm; A scissors block (i.e., simultaneous low block and outside block) Shoulder-height opening block; Strike to the abdomen using the knee; A hinge-block chamber leading up to a low cross block. This is the first block seen in the Taegeuk poomsae that is not a "deflecting" block.
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