kidswarrior
Senior Master
Although not kenpo specific, this thread was pretty good, I thought: http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51508&highlight=handshake Some here may be interested in the ideas there.
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A good reason off the top of my head is that this both cancel you opponents actions, and is hard to see what is happening by both the opponent any third parties.This is quite an interesting old thread especially as I was teaching some of the 'Gift' techniques last night. Personally whether it ever happens or not I think when learning SD techniques it is useful to learn as many as you can from as many different attacks as possible, therefore an unfriendly handshake has never really been that surprising to me.
However, with the basic Gift of Destruction being particularly simple yet effective and one I think is fairly useful, after all these years I must admit that I still struggle to find an actual scenario where I would use Gift in Return, that one has never seemed that useful to me, doesn't flow that well and there is the potential for mistakes. I would probably never use this one myself. However, if anyone can enlighten me to a situation where that particular 'gift' would be the best choice to use I would be interested to find out your reasons why.