dvcochran
Grandmaster
Taeguek 5 and Batsai Dai are similar in that they both have a lot of inside/outside blocks. We do start our blocks from belt level ready hand but we also stop the block past centerline.This form could be dropped straight into the Doshinkan curriculum exactly like it is, and no one would blink an eye.
The inside blocks have a slightly different starting position than ours. we tend to start further up and back and sweep the arm into position;
Also, rather then terminating the block directly on the centerline... we sweep just past center as to parry a linear incoming strike so that it will miss the body
about the starting position...
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ending position (sorry that it drawn with the other arm) if that block was done with body roation.
If no significant body rotation is being done... then the block crosses the centerline to end with the fist forward of the collar bone. Fist would be at between 10 & 11 O'clock position and the elbow between 4 and 5 O'clock.
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