Pai Lum Blocking Techniques

A novice student begins to learn the basic blocking techniques, clearing the zone with a fist to block.  This maximizes safety and insures that an incoming attack is blocked or deflected.  Over time, waist whipping increases the power of the block.  Seven star training increases the density of the limb.  Therefore, the block really becomes a strike.  As a student advances, smaller and smaller portions of the body are utilized in blocking.  The hard fist becomes a soft fist.  Evasion techniques are brought into training early, making a Pai Lum warrior very hard to strike.  At intermediate  levels, the block and strike combination become one.  At advanced levels, the block all but disappears, favoring evasion and countering techniques or blocking and striking with the same limb.

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