Single knife passing drill

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Just wondering:

In the single knife passing drill, I notice that the #8 line is dealt with twice with palm -down- tapping, which on the surface would seem to go against the palm -up- tapping advocated for against saksak.

The first instance is part of a triple tap and jam, so I'm guessing the hand mechanics works better with palm down in those situations.

The second instance involves a scoop through, which again is palm -down-: is this because your right hand is being held by his left, and you can't get the body mechanic to do an ideal primary tap and scoop?

Thanks for your help

Edwin

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Just wondering:

In the single knife passing drill, I notice that the #8 line is dealt with twice with palm -down- tapping, which on the surface would seem to go against the palm -up- tapping advocated for against saksak.

The first instance is part of a triple tap and jam, so I'm guessing the hand mechanics works better with palm down in those situations.

The second instance involves a scoop through, which again is palm -down-: is this because your right hand is being held by his left, and you can't get the body mechanic to do an ideal primary tap and scoop?

Thanks for your help

Edwin

In this case you are going directly to a tertiary parry (palm down for sak-sak) as this is the stronger movement - the trade off is that it is not as safe as a primary parry. To use tertiary first is an advanced concept which you apply when you have the opponent's timing down and everything goes right. If things go wrong, then you revert back to primary.

Regards,
Tuhon Bill McGrath

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Thanks. I have also noticed that in empty hand versus knife, a regular primary tap converts naturally to the tertiary when jamming the knife hand against the opponent's body...