[QUOTE=qiphlow;700797]ok, i’ll try to explain…
1st: block a left punch with left hand while shifting weight sideways from left foot to right foot, then as you are standing at opponents left side, bend him forward by pushing on the back of his head, drive your left elbow down to the back of opponent’s neck.
2nd:block a right punch with left hand while shifting weight sideways from left foot to right foot, then, block follow-up right punch with left hand, guiding/controlling opponent’s right hand downward, then strike opponent’s face or throat with your left hand.
i hope that makes sense..[/QUOTE]
prettty much - for #1 - do you contact on the inside or the outside of the punching arm? also, do you do anything with your right hand at all during the move?
#2 - same question as to contact surfaces; also, it seems that you are again doing it all with your left hand: managing 2 punches and the follow up (which you say comes from the same hand, the Rt., as the initial punch - are you saying they punch 2x with the Rt. hand?).
I see it as this way:
person punches w/ right hand; with my right hand I contact the outside of their arm, either at the wrist or preferably if possible near / at the elbow; grabbing arm, the right hand continues to pull down while twisting, turning their arm over;
(this is why they call it fist under elbow, to me: optimally, you got the attacker at the elbow, and have twisted the arm inwards as you pull them off balance: technically, your fist ends up “under” their elbow…)
at the same time as you are pulling them down / off, the left hand strikes in one of several ways:
a) over the top of the oponent’s Rt. arm, contacting at the posterior angle of the jaw / upper cervicals with the pinkie side of the palm; this is if the opponent is same ehight / shorter than you, and is unable to fold the elbow over your hand (easier if you grab at the wrist, harder the nearer to the elbow you are)
b) under the arm, coming up under the jaw, almost as if you were sliding up the person’s chest: advantage is that it comes through a blind spot; disadvantage is you are under their Rt. arm, so if they drop the elbow, you may have a problem; also, you could also do this over the arm to a taller oponent if you got the arm down far enough (the scooping would be less possible on a shorter person, since you can’t really come up from underneath if they are level with / below you); you could also direct the strike to the axilla, diggint the fingers in, or the thumb into the hollow under the scapula which exposes subscapularis muscle, which in 99.9% of the population is tender-as-heck, creating a defacto area of tenderness that can be exploited nicely - but this, admittedly, is a much harder thing to hit; also, if you grab it, you would certainly need to do a follow-up move…
in both cases, the general area on the neck that you are striking to is filled with all kinds of nifty cervical plexi / autonomic ganglia, the type that if you whack them hard, can cause all that nice disorientation stuff you want to get…
there is also, of course, the other interpretation of pushing the arm up / out of the way with your left hand as the right hand punches to the ribs; the only problem with this is that the direction that the fist moves in the form doesn’t support this as a reasonable application (nor would the foot work - if you were to do that, you lean with the weight forward on the left leg, as opposed to backwards on the on the right - it would look more like the punch move at the end of the first road of the form)
btw, my favorite posture is Cinnabar Transformation (typically translated as Single Whip - they are actually homphonic)…
