Top 25 Effective Blocking Techniques in Martial Arts
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Here is a variety of martial arts blocks that are used in self-defense, sparring and many katas & forms. Blocks are used as a defensive tool in order to stop an opponent’s attack. READ MORE
Defensive techniques against attack:
It as categorized into six groups:
1. Blocking: Defenders hard block to stop a strike in its path, so preventing it reaching its target.
2. Redirection: Defenders soft parries to change the directions of a strike so that it misses its target.
3. Avoidance: Moving a body part swiftly out of the way or range of a strike, making the position of the opponent for a counter strike.
4. Evasion: Moving the body out of the way or range of a strike.
5. Disruption: Pre-aiming an attack.
6. Anticipation: Defender catching a strike or countering it before it strike.
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Judo (meaning "gentle way") is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano . Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata,) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. A judo practitioner is called a judoka.
