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Knife hand strikes

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Knife hand strikes

Beginner10 repsNo jumping

Muscles worked

ShouldersMid backObliques

You need

No equipment

How to do it

  1. Take a fighting stance and open your hands flat, fingers together, thumbs tucked - the knife hand.
  2. Chamber one hand up beside your head, palm forward, then whip it out and across in a downward-slanting chop, striking with the outer edge of the hand at neck height, while your other hand pulls back into chamber.
  3. Alternate sides, letting your hips rotate a little behind every chop - the strike snaps, it doesn't push.

Exercise from Darebee, used under licence.