- CS: Cat Stance
- DBB: Downward Backfist Block
- DFB: Downward Forearm Block
- IS: Inward Smash
- JRS: Jade Ring Stance
- OB: Outward Block
- RP: Reverse Punch
- SK: Snap Kick
- SS: Sparring Stance
- STK: Side Thrust Kick
- UB: Upward Block
- VP: Vertical Punch
#11
RP
DFB
SS
#12
RP
JRS UB
RP
DFB
SS
#13
DBB SK
VP
VP
VP
OB
SS
#14
SS
↑
VP
VP
VP
OB SS
↑
SK DBB
STK→
CS
↓
SS
#15
DBB SK
VP
VP
VP
SS OB
↺180°
↓STK
SS
↺180° IS
SS
3 comments:
Nice.
What're Jade Ring Stance, Inward Smash and Vertical Punch?
Is VP an uppercut?
You can tell the notation's working when you can begin to visualise the moves as you read, without thinking about it too hard. It's definitely getting there; I'm going to start using it.
You should think up a cool name for this notation, so if guys in the class ask "what's that?" I can say "GG diagrams for movement #5" or whatever ;)
Jade Ring Stance: I'm not sure I've got the right name on this one. My instructor said "Jade Ring Stance" when I asked her if the stance in question had a name. However, the references I've found online indicate that "Jade Ring Stance" is essentially a twist stance, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense with the technique in question. As far as I can tell the actual technique calls for Circle Entering Stance. Which looks something like:
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The front knee is bent almost 90° and the rear knee hovers a little bit off the ground. In this case it's used in conjunction with an upward block to get under your opponent's guard.
Inward Smash: I learned this as "Inward Crescent Kick" in another system. The rear leg swings out and around 180°, sort of like a roundhouse, except that the leg isn't completely straight and centripetal force does a lot of the work (think of the foot as a weight on the end of a string). The target is generally the head/shoulders and the striking surface is the instep/ball of the foot.
Vertical Punch: Take a standard front punch and turn it so that the knuckles are facing outward.
Yeah, it's definitely getting to the point where it can be useful. The techniques I'm learning now are complicated enough that I need to write them down and I'm finding that I'm able to do so (most of the time) with what I've developed so far.
As far as a name goes... hrm... "Analytic Form Notation"? "Analytic Martial Arts Notation"? I'm open to suggestions.
Follow-up on this: I asked my chief instructor about Jade Ring etc. The appropriate stance for technique #12 is the one I depicted in my comment above: back knee hovering, front knee bent @90°. However, in the Studio X system this is referred to as "Jade Ring Stance" (regardless of what the 'tubes say).
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