The Evading The Storm 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 did is called evading the storm. This is for an overhead club. We want to get out of the way of the overhead and do not want him to cut in on our foot. So what we are going to do is do an upper block that slices this way and opposes it, tries and keep it to the outside. Grab a hold as we slip inside with a round house to the groin, and we are going to pull on his arm, this is a check but it also adds force to our blow of punching, with a straight punch to the ribcage, okay. So let's do that again. So we are slipping off to the side, bending him over and stopping him with a kick and the punch. For added protection we are going to check the elbow, and as we lock the elbow so you cannot move, we are going to knee him in the sciatic nerve with our left straightening this way. Generally the reaction to this is what happens, it causes a flexing here, which makes the ankle and Achilles tendon vulnerable. What I am going to do is drop using a knee drop onto that portion of his leg, trapping it underneath; that is really a disabling move. So again, we move off to this side with an upper block, capture if we can kick fore bow and punch and check at the elbow, knee and drop on the leg. This one is evading the storm. "