The Side Step Counter in Soo Bahk Do

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Geoff Sterling from Hollywood Soo Bahk Do and what I'm going to show you right now is, from a close stance, how to step out at a 45 degree angle to set yourself up for some kind of counter. Basically, an angle-stepping counter-attack motion. What's going to happen is, you do this when somebody you're sparring up against is, has the same leg back as you, opposite leg back as you and you're just going to step out at angle which is really counter-intuitive. A lot of times when someone is attacking you, people want to retreat and go backward or maybe go at an angle backward. When we try to explain angles to people, a lot of times they go at an angle, backward. So what we're going to work on today is showing how the advantage of blocking while stepping forward into the person. Obviously don't step straight into the person or you're going to get hit. So, you're going to step out at an angle, like that. In a traditional flex dance, it would look like this but in more of, like, a street-fighting application, sparring situation, as you step out, you might raise your heel off the ground. So to demonstrate this will help you harness your Soo Bahk Do. So, if you throw the technique at me, I'm right here, so as you can see, he's really available to me to throw an attack because I stepped out on an angle. If I step back this way, I'm very limited. But if I step in towards him, from here I can grab arm, elbow punch this way, uppercut, a lot of good picks. So that was, from a close stance, a 45 degree angle block. From us at Hollywood Soo Bahk Do, thank-you for watching."