Elbow techniques

[EARTH DRAGON]

8 step praying mantis elbows with applications and throws

HORIZONTIAL
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. RIGHT LONG ARM BLOCK , LEFT SUN PUNCH
O. LEFT HIGH BLOCK
D. GRAB BLOCK , PULL , RIGHT ELBOW , GRAB NECK ( TI )

VERTICAL
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. LEFT LOW BLOCK , RIGHT SUN PUNCH
O. LEFT HIGH BLOCK
D. COLLAPSE INTO ELBOW ,STRIKE CHIN ,GRAB NECK SWEEP (TI )

DOWN
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. RIGHT MANTIS , LEFT HOOK , CIRCLE NECK , ELBOW TO STERNUM

SIDE
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. RIGHT MANTIS , ELBOW BREAK ,OVER TO GROIN,CHIN STRIKE ( KO )

PUSH
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. RIGHT MANTIS GRAB , ELBOW BREAK, ELBOW RIBS , ( LOW )

OVER
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D. LEFT LOW BLOCK , RIGHT SUN PUNCH
O. LEFT HIGH BLOCK
D. STEAL , RIGHT ELBOW , GROIN STRIKE , LOCK ELBOW (BACK SOBEI)

SPINNING
O. PUNCHES RIGHT
D.RIGHT SIDE BLOCK, SPIN INTO HORSE, LIFT LEGS (DUAN)

DOUBLE
O.ATTEMPS BEAR HUG
D. OPEN BLOCK , BOX EARS , R & L ELBOW , SWEEP LEG , GRAB NECK (MA BOU TI )

[Tvebak]

Capoeira contains a treasure of elbow techs, in the traditional angola the elbow is used along with cutting handstrikes with both sides of the hands and fingers, often its used against the arms and fists or against kicks (like sombody descriped) or against the leg if someone tries to use a kneestrike.
In Regional or Atual the elbows are used in a more swinging and used with palmstrikes, fists and small sweeps. All these elbows can come from different angels, sometimes with half or full rotation.
One of my favorite elbows is one combined with a sideways headbutt, so that the head and the elbow hit either at the same time or one opens the target for the other.
In Frevo, a form of samba from Recife with hidden capoeira moves in it, there is a lot of elbows too.
I would really like to descripe some of these techs in detail but im really tired...maybe tomorrow.

[SevenStar]

yeah, those are good methods cipher. we trained to use them that way also. that can really do some damage and take the fight out of someone.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

anyone else use angular elbows to cover the other 4 directions of attack?

of course, allot of people consider the angular to be the same as the upward or downwards making only 4 directions like musashi said.

i still have problems landing allot of the elbows, but the ones i land most are simple horizontal elbows to the ribs during an angualr step and backwards(?) ones once in close before a shoulder strike (i would do them more if i held a side stance more often, but we already had a discussion about that). if i understand what you guys mean by backwards it would be the elbow you would launch from a sideways stance accross your body or straight behind you. we simply call these palm down to palm up elbow blows.

[GeneChing]

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