The Obscure Wing Kenpo Karate Technique

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Joe Palanzo from the World Wide Kenpo Karate Association in conjunction with Expert Village. This self defense technique that we just demonstrated is called obscure wing, and the reason the word obscure is used is because there is certain area of your body where your jaw prevents your eyes from actually seeing, and this is called obscure zone. Now when I am grabbed by the shoulder, number of things could happen; may be pulling me around and punching me on the head. But the weapon that is closest to me, that is effective is this, not that. So I have to you know he can stick me in the eye, he can bang me in the head with his elbow, what I really want to do is to control this hand by trapping. So as I was being pulled back, I trapped allowing him to pull me added power to my back elbow, which hit below the shoulder plexus. Now the important part is not to hit with the point of the elbow necessarily but the section above it. So it actually looks like that. It is coming straight down, very powerful. As soon as you hit here, the next opportunity might be hitting to the groin with this right hammer fist; we are going to strike down that way. As his head came forward I would grab at the groin area, follow the contour of his body and in the obscure zone, this elbow which is a wing, obscure wing strikes under the chin, snapping his head back. So the three moves, and they are interchangeable you can even reverse it. Use all the opportunity you need to defend yourself against a close shoulder grab. This is obscure wing. "