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Summary: Block your opponent's punches & kicks and learn how to do a with expert tips and advice on soo bahk do in this free video.
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Geoff Sterling Geoff Sterling began training in Tang Soo Do at age 18, 5 years later he switched to Soo Bahk Do. Geoff tested for blackbelt in October in 2004 for Soo Bahk D... read more
Hi my name is Geoff Sterling and I am going to be showing you how to do a stepping backwards cross legged stance and its applications. The correct term is keyturet jance but it is basically a retreating defensive type of cross legged stance with a low block. So to show you what it is basically if you are in a horse riding stance this way you are going to step back here, step back here. Another way to practice it is dropping your weight and dropping down and crossing your legs. Because it is a retreating block you are going to do the low block. You are here this way and then stepping back. Actually there is two ways you can do it you can do it stepping back or in play to help you gain ground. So you can do it in play and it is just dropping your hips and so when you do it you are moving forward. To help demonstrate I am having Muhumad Husan of Soo Bahk Do. Let's say you are doing the retreat backward, see his leg coming in so I can step backward to retreat. This time he is going to throw a technique at a closer range so I am going to drop down low and not retreat so much. There is two different ways you can step back or you can kind of do it in one place. On behalf of Soo Bahk Do thank you for watching. That was the a cross legged stance block.
I realize this video is about the Cross-Legged Stance, but, since Geoff combines this with hand movements, it becomes more interesting. He shows that you can defend or even attack, and when Muhammed attacks, Geoff is using the stance and not a knife hand counter, but an open-hand one. I use this "soft" block when sparring, so I'm blocking but not hammering my sparring partner's kick. (Rule #1, I've been told, is "Never hurt your sparring partner.) It surprised my sparring partners when, in the past, I took Tae Kwon Do, as they were trained to move out of the way of a kick w/o using a block. The sparring partners I have now in Soo Bahk Do expect, or at least aren't surprised by, that soft block. As for me, I give no ground and am in a better position to counter.