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- From: simutis@Ingres.COM (John Simutis)
- Subject: Why no punch to the head, but kick is OK ? (was: TKD rule survey)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.000725.12533@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: simutis@Ingres.COM (John Simutis)
- Organization: Ingres Division, ASK Computer Systems.
- References: <C1In3I.8K7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Jan27.192152.13844@wdl.loral.com> <C1JC3n.G88@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:07:25 GMT
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- In article <C1JC3n.G88@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >
- >So you allow hand attacks to the head? Out here it is generally
- >illegal to even fake a hand attack to the head.
- >
- >More on the leg blocks; I generally lift my knee, block with shin, and
- >then continue with a side or roundhouse kick to the head. Would this
- >be ok?
- >
- >Dakin
- >burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- >
- >
-
- I don't know from kicks to the head - my style stays low - so this rule is
- a little confusing to me. Kicks seem to be (IMO) lots more powerful than hand
- strikes. Even with headgear and foot-protectors to absorb some of the
- energy, isn't a kick more dangerous than a punch? (excluding eye-gouging
- and other 'penetrative' strikes - just the more blunt-instrument type strikes).
-
- John
-