The Racking Mace Kenpo Karate Technique

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Hi! I am Joe Palanzo from the World Wide Kenpo Karate Association in conjunction with Expert Village. This technique is called raking mace, as a defense against the two hand or power grab where you are being pulled forward. So now what is taking place, as soon as he is grabbing here, he is taking his two major weapons and occupied them doing nothing except hurting my feelings. So what I want to do because he might head butt me, is to prefix my first move by catching his eye to divert his head and trapping the two arms. As he pulls me forward, I fire a middle finger strike to the solar plexus. If you are too close you can always hit to the groin. Coming around the going across the bridge of the nose, down and top the arms, and bring him in, chop to the throat. I am going to push his arms down now, and at this time we areally close up and do a sandwiching movement. And the sandwiching movement actually doubles the force of either of these two weapons. So I am using the elbow on the hinge of the jaw and heel palm on this hinge of jaw, and try to hit simultaneously. Okay, let us recap that again. On the first move, three things are taking place; as I am being pulled forward I am slicing the eye, I am checking his leg down here and striking. That may be sufficient to do the job; if not I will continue by hitting the temple, chopping the throat, checking his eye movement, sandwich and then of course you can always add more moves if needed. This is called raking mace.

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