High Crossblock in Shorin-Ryu Karate

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How are you doing? My name is Sensei Qaeem, on behalf of Expert Village. I’ll be demonstrating Shorin-Ryu karate. In Shorin-Ryu karate, in this segment, I’m going to be demonstrating the cross block, also known as the X block. You have the cross block high. What you want to do is, you want to come up, and your hands want to overlap each other. You want to come from your chest, that’s where you get most of your power. Come from your chest, come up cross, and you are going come out. Both hands facing out as though you are facing your target. What you want to do is, when your target is coming at you, you want to get back into a back stance. You want to cross, come up high, and that’s the X block. It looks just like an X. I’m going to bring in my partner Mohammed. Mohammed is going to throw a reverse punch towards my face. What I’m going to simply do is, I’m going to be in my back stance and arms going across. We’re going to do it slow. Mohammed is going to throw a punch on my face. I’m going to come from here, cross, and you are going to come up. You want to bring your hands far enough over your head, so therefore, if you have to do another technique you have all this opening here. So, you want also bring in far from your head so he can’t come back towards your face. Once again, Mohammed throws a punch, cross block high. This is the X block. Mohammed throws a punch again, cross block, notice the back stance. With this stance, you can easily move into another move. The cross block, you want to put it well over your head and you want to push it away from your body. That’s the cross block. On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Qaeem. Thank you for watching.

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