Happy-Holidays-Martial-Arts-Silhouettes

Happy Holidays 2016

Happy and healthy holiday season for all, from Full Potential Martial Arts in San Diego!!!

Here is a martial-arts/karate themed Happy Holidays card I designed.  Can you recognize the techniques in the artwork?

(Answers below)

Happy-Holidays-Martial-Arts-Silhouettes

See you at the dojo!!!!

Answers:

The martial arts / karate happy holiday artwork contains the following techniques:

  • Roundhouse kick (mawashi-geri) padwork
  • Ground clinch
  • Side kick (yoko-geri)
  • High front kick (mae-geri)
  • Circle throw (tomoe-nage) — a type of sacrifice throw (sutemi-waza)
  • High and low block/strike from the karate kata Pinan Yondan (also appears in the kata Kosokun / Kusanku)
  • Fireman throw (kata guruma), as shown at the end of the karate kata Matsukaze (Wan Kan)
  • Forward roll

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