Thursday, June 10, 2010

Pencak Silat Training Exercise 7

Perisai Diri pencak-silat exponents can deliver a reverse leg sickle heel kick with speed efficiency. This exercise lays the foundation for that tactic.

Method. Assume a right stance, your right side quartering into training partner (#1). Step forward on your right foot (#2), and, as you put your weight on it, bend forward from the waist and with your trailing left leg swing a reverse sickle kick around behind you (#3). Aim to place a heel kick into your training partner’s groin as protection against counterattacks to that vital region; your left arm remains free, so that if you lose your balance or are knocked down, it will offer you support on the ground. As with exercise 6, your training partner becomes more active as you acquire greater skill in the execution of the maneuver.

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