If you use Bong Shou higher than your shoulder, you can hide your head next to your arm to prevent a powerful head punch.
When you use your right hand to grab on your opponent's lapel, your opponent's left hand can still punch you. If you just raise your right elbow and hide your head next to it, it's the best defense for that position. The Bong Shou is an excellent tool to be used in stand up grappling to avoid a head punch.
That would not be bong sao. At least not as I learned.When you use your right hand to grab on your opponent's lapel, your opponent's left hand can still punch you. If you just raise your right elbow and hide your head next to it, it's the best defense for that position. The Bong Shou is an excellent tool to be used in stand up grappling to avoid a head punch.
In the following picture, if the person on the right throws a left hook punch toward the head of the person on the left, the person on the left can raise his right elbow, hide his head next to it, and avoid that hook punch.
It may not be what Bong Shou was designed for, but it can be what Bong Shou can be evolved into. IMO, we should look into the future and not just look at the past. The future should always be better than the past otherwise our human being will be in trouble.
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Grasshopper...weedhopper... I believe Joy was chopping tall weeds. I find it very hard to imagine him hopping tall weeds!
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"Well that's very different....never mind"
