Hair Combing

[johnwang]

This move must be so important. It almost exists in every CMA styles. It used to be the first 3 SC 24 Shi (solo forms) training (single hook comb, double hook comb, mix hook comb). It redirects the incoming force and just change the angle a little bit so it should fit in both internal and external requirement.



Can you find it in your system?

[Darthwing Teorist]

We use mostly Rodney King's Crazy Monkey: http://www.fightgood.com/article/crazy-monkey/


But we have also been taught a more static guard, especially for entries.

[JusticeZero]

*examines picture*
By my understanding of what is being depicted and the assumption that the arrows resemble the lines of force?
Nope, don't have it, unless I take some major, major liberties.

[Chris McKinley]

The guy in your picture's got his elbows out waaay too wide, but yeah, it's a useful move....especially against hooks.

[Kurt Robbins]

In Muay Thai we are taught to to place the elbow on the lower ribs, cover the head closely and slightly lean into the hook.
Covering the ribs prevents liver shots on the right side and rib shots on the left.

[JusticeZero]

Yeah, we cover the ribs too, we just flow with the hook into other things, instead of some sort of block. In any case, I don't remember seeing any sort of upward brushing movement in the techniques I remember.

[Chris McKinley]

The brushing up and backward (or over) is a way to carry the incoming punch harmlessly past you or over you instead of blocking it, per se. It's a blending move.

[Jeice]

My Shorin-ji Ryu Sensei has this as a part of the core curriculum.

[Darthwing Teorist]

The brushing up and backward (or over) is a way to carry the incoming punch harmlessly past you or over you instead of blocking it, per se. It's a blending move.

Also to help you look good during a fight. Looking good is half the secret!

[Daniel]

Yup. Both in the Bagua and the Xingyi and in weird daoist martial stuff.

Done slightly differently in all of them. Also done at various heights, like mentioned about the ribs, and a variation in Paoquan with the palm inwards.

Especially the Bagua is a good way to find out if your qi is in order...watch out for the bad toufali, the bad hair day...

...Darth...what´s the other half? The right after shave and a dimple in your smile?



D.

Sarcasm? Oh yeah, like that´ll work.

[everything]

so I learned this as an empty form, disconnected from the use you mention.

separately, I learned this move, but didn't connect it back to the form.

oddly enough, it did feel natural. guess the empty form helped with something though that was totally ass backwards

[Iskendar]

Seen it in southern shaolin, taiji and Alex Kostic' systema. Extremely useful move.

[Andy_S]

Not in Taiji AFAIK, but learned the basic cover as described by Kurt in boxing, and in a more focused variant, in Crazy Monkey. Rodney King's stuff is up on the web, and is pretty commonsense as a defense against head attacks.

The point of Crazy Monkey is that is is a GUARD, not a TECHNIQUE.

In silat, I learned this as a counterattack (with either elbow or kerambit) but your timing has to be superb to pull it off successfully. If, OTOH, you have it there as a guard, then...

[Chris McKinley]

Play the Lute from Yang Taijiquan can actually be the same movement, and Fan Through Back is similar, only with the intercepting hand facing the other direction. Folks usually think of them as grabbing types of apps, but they don't have to be.

[Darthwing Teorist]

The point of Crazy Monkey is that is is a GUARD, not a TECHNIQUE.

True, but it can be used for deflections and it flows into elbows and punches. It can also be used as an entry because of this.