Basic Rear Elbow Strike in Tang Soo Do Martial Arts

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Kelly and Rob from South Florida Tang Soo Do here at Muse Art in Hollywood, Florida. On behalf of ExpertVillage.com we would like to welcome you. We’re going to demonstrate some basic Tang Soo Do techniques. First we’re going to show you how to do a rear elbow. We’re not going to use the point of our elbow, but actually this hard bony part which will let us go against targets such as the face. I’m going to make a fist and I’m actually going to use my entire body to strike back, my whole body. In slow motion, all I do is step back, stay nice and low and use here and use my whole body to really rock it in to the technique. Now what might you use this for? Well. And that would be an example of what you might use a basic elbow for in Tang Soo Do. "