How To Do A Karate Palm Heel Strike Video

The palm heel strike is a karate hit with a unique twist. Learn karate moves and skills in this martial arts video.

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Use heel of palm
Upward motion
Target nose
Target ear
Target chin

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Ricardo Bellot is a Martial Arts Instructor at Premier Martial Arts in the Midtown area of New York City. He has been training in Martial Arts for 19 years.

RICARDO BELLOT: Hi, my name is Ricardo Bellot. I am an instructor here at Premier Martial Arts here in New York City, Midtown. In this clip, we are going to talk about how to do a palm heel strike in karate. Now, when doing a palm heel strike, use the heel of your palm here. Now, you have very limited targets when using this technique. When using this, the prime target I would suggest to you will be the nose, the bridge of the nose or if you can, if you are of to the side of your opponent, you can strike the ear, okay? Now you will go up in the upward, arc motion, up through his nose and straight up, okay? So when executing this technique, if he for example, he is coming out with an outside attack, I can block with the middle block, like we discussed before and counterattack with a palm strike right through his nose. Also, I can strike his chin. So he attacks, I can block and I can come right up and strike his chin. Okay. All right. Now, one more time. I can come in, I can block and strike. Okay, other martial arts that apply that, you can hit the body, it is not really that effective. When you really wanted the maximum effect of a palm heel strike, you strike the nose, the chin or if at all possible you can strike the throat, okay? And that is how you do a karate palm heel strike.

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