Photo 1: Two people- showing author with leg obstruction on partner ' s shin. You can see that it is more diagonal than horizontal. While this will work, it is better to have the foot horizontal so as to have a much of the foot as possible on your opponent ' s shin so that you do not have to quite as accurate with the placement of the foot.
Photo 2: Close up of horizontal foot on shin.
Luckily even though I never got it exactly correct, I never gave up on it, and I can make it work well enough to have become one of my main tools. The Wednesday Night Group tries to spend most of our time on what we will do most of our time in combat. We feel that it is best to be able to do a few things well than a lot of things not so well. That is what Bruce Lee really meant by“ daily decrease”. It is for that reason that we try to spend about 80 % of our time on what we will do 80 % of the time. When the crap hits the fan and someone attacks you without warning, you do not have the luxury of enough time to sift through 30 different responses to this particular type of attack. The advantage of the leg obstruction is that it will work against almost any type of empty hand attack as soon as the attacker has penetrated the fighting measure. The fighting measure can be defined as that distance that is far enough away from you that to touch you, your opponent must take a step toward you. Thus giving you the time to respond. But even if you are late to respond and the attack has not landed, the speed and basic structure of the leg obstruction can still keep you safe from the attack landing. To explain this, we need to show you the leg obstruction in action. Please give the author some slack on the foot not being completely horizontal. While I could have gotten most of our instructors to show it correctly, I felt that it might give some hope to others that even an old klutz can make it work. Even if you are a young klutz, don ' t give up on working on it for the many hours it will take to get it well enough to use it. Bremer always told us to“ Do it until you own it”. Someday it may save your life. Photo 3- 2 at fighting measure Photo 4- A: Steps forward and jabs.
B: Leg obstruction
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