Glancing Salute (EPAK Orange #8)

Glancing Salute is the 8th technique required to obtain your orange belt in Ed Parker’s American Kenpo.  Glancing Salute is a defense against a right hand cross push to your right shoulder, placing it in the Pushes category of the Web of Knowledge and the Pushes family group of the Family Groups Striking division.

Glancing Salute specifically deals with a cross push and shows you how to react in such a scenario using a pivoting action to nullify your opponent’s push while once again using frictional pull to control your opponent.

Defense

Glancing Salute – defense for a right hand cross push.

• Step 1
  • Step toward 11:00 with your left foot and slightly pivot clockwise to form a left neutral bow stance facing 1:00.
  • Pin the opponent’s right hand against your chest with your right hand.
  • Pivot clockwise into a right forward bow stance facing 3:00,
  • Deliver a left thrusting forearm strike behind your opponent’s right elbow joint.
• Step 2
  • Hook inside your opponent’s right elbow joint with a left crane hook,
  • Pivot counterclockwise to form a left forward bow stance facing 12:00,
  • Pull down on your opponent’s right arm down and push it against his body,
  • Deliver a right thrusting heel palm strike to your opponent’s jaw.
• Step 3
  • Slide a right crane hook behind your opponent’s neck, from their right side,
  • Pull the opponent’s head down with your right hand.
  • Deliver a right upward knee kick to your opponent’s stomach.
• Step 4
  • Plant your right foot forward to check your opponent’s right knee,
  • Deliver a right inward horizontal elbow strike to your opponent’s face.
  • Left hand checks low.
• Step 5
  • Crossover & cover out toward 6:00.

Additional Information

Name

As previously stated a salute is the Kenpo term used to represent a heel palm strike.  In this technique your heel palm strike (salute) will essentially glance off of your opponent’s jaw becoming a right crane beak that will hook around the right back side of his neck.  This glancing action of your salute is what gives the technique its name, Glancing Salute.

Attack

The ideal phase of attack positions the aggressor directly in front of you who then steps forward with his right foot and pushes your right shoulder with his right hand.

This type of push is typically used to nullify your dominant arm (usually the right) while setting you up for a left cross or hook punch.

Considerations

• What if …
  • your opponent grabs your right lapel and pulls you?
  • your opponent pushes with both hands?
  • your opponent throws a left hook after the push?
  • your right hugging pin slips off your opponent’s right wrist as you execute the forearm strike?
  • your opponent slips away from your heel palm strike?

Related Techniques

• Triggered Salute
• Gift of Destruction
• Thrusting Prongs
• Shield and Sword
• Flashing Mace
• Menacing Twirl

Historical Notes

• In the 1975 Accumulative Journal, Glancing Salute was Orange Belt Technique #7
• The 1975 Accumulative Journal ends this technique with an option of either planting forward after the knee kick to check your opponent’s knee or to plant your foot back into a left neutral bow; nor does it indicate an angle of departure.

Historical Versions

1975 Accumulative Journal

GLANCING SALUTE (font right hand cross push)

1. Standing naturally while opponent pushes your right shoulder with his right hand, step forward and to your left to 11 o’clock with your left foot (into a left neutral bow) Immediately pivot to your right (to 3 o’clock) into a right forward bow as your right arm pins opponent’s right wrist to your right chest and your left forearm strikes out and against the joint of your opponent’s   right elbow to cause a break.
2. Pivot to your left (to 12 o’clock) into a left forward bow as your left hand pins opponent’s right arm to his body and your right heel of palm strikes to opponent’s law.
3. Hook the back of opponent’s neck with your right hand as it forms the shape of the crane. Pull opponent’s   neck down (having your right elbow hug your right ribcage in the process) as your right knee kicks to opponent’s stomach. Plant forward (having your right knee check your opponent’s right leg m the process) or back into a left neutral bow.

Unfinished Orange Belt Manual by Ed Parker

GLANCING SALUTE (Front right hand cross push)

1. Standing naturally, while your opponent pushes your right shoulder with his right hand, (1) step forward and slightly to your left (11:00) with your left foot into a left neutral bow (facing 12:00), (2) pivot to your right into a right forward bow toward 3:00 (to ride the force of your opponent’s push) as (3) your right arm pins your opponent’s right wrist to the right side of your chest along with (4) the execution of a left inward vertical forearm strike against the joint of your opponent’s right elbow to cause a break. (This action should cause your opponent to turn counterclockwise, as well as cancel his Width Zones.)
2. Pivot to your left (toward 12 o’clock) into a left forward bow as your left hand pins your opponent’s right arm to his body, and simultaneously execute a right thrusting heel palm strike to his jaw. (The action of the left pinning hand should bring your opponent’s head down and forward into your right heel palm strike. This strike should force his head up and back.)
3. Have your right hand (1) circle to the right of your opponent’s face as it then hooks around and back of his neck (forming the shape of a crane), (2) pulls your opponent’s head down and toward the ground (ANCHORING your right elbow in the process) while (3) executing a right knee strike to your opponent’s stomach. (Your opponent’s strength should wane, with his feet moving back and away from you.)
4. Plant your right foot forward into a right neutral bow, as your right knee checks (and possibly buckles) the inside of your opponent’s right knee. Simultaneous with the plant (while capitalizing on your forward momentum and gravitational marriage), execute a right inward elbow strike to your opponent’s face, as your left hand pins your opponent’s right arm to his body. (This should cause your opponent’s head to move up and back.)
5. Right front crossover, covering out toward 7:30.

Notes

Variations