The Secret to Staying Young

Sensi Borgnine reveals to us the secret of youth!

Wax on, wax off…

~BCP

Leg Chin Na

I’ve decided that since my Chin Na instructor is a Praying Mantis practitioner I’ll call him “Mantis”. I e-mailed Mantis to let him know that I’ll miss class next week. I also had to ask about throwing and when I’ll see it.

Being an instructor he corrected me and said it’s called leg chin na.

We get to learn a variation of one leg chin na at level one. The rest of the leg the chin na does not appear until year three or four years out which is the advanced level. 

2:21 of this video shows the basic idea (you can also see similar takes at 3:40 & 4:10). The only difference is that I’ll be taught to use two grab escapes before stepping into this throw (aka leg chin na). The wrist escapes are wrap hands 1 & 2 done without locking your opponent’s hand. Sides practiced are same-side low, cross hand low, same-side high, and cross hand high. All are followed by that step behind and closeline push.

This sounds like the reverse of a ridge hand strike/sweep that I learned in taekwondo. In that technique we come at the opponent like a freight train and blast. This chin na version looks to be sneakier and requires less energy.

Anyhow, he said he’d show it to me when I return so I’m excited about that.

~BCP