Absorbing a blow
In boxing and other fighting, absorbing a blow is when one person is hit without being badly hurt or stopped from continuing the fight. Sometimes a boxer will absorb a blow they could have avoided so that they can counterattack straight afterwards.
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Absorbing a straight long punch of the rear arm by an inclination of the trunk backwards
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Sources
change- Georges Blanchet, Boxe et sports de combat en éducation physique, Ed. Chiron, Paris, 1947
- Alain Delmas, 1. Lexique de la boxe et des autres boxes (Document fédéral de formation d’entraîneur), Aix-en-Provence, 1981-2005 - 2. Lexique de combatique (Document fédéral de formation d’entraîneur), Toulouse, 1975-1980.
- Jack Dempsey, Championship fighting, Ed. Jack Cuddy, 1950
- Gabrielle & Roland Habersetzer, Encyclopédie des arts martiaux de l'Extrême-Orient, Ed. Amphora, Paris, 2000
- Louis Lerda, J.C. Casteyre, Sachons boxer, Ed. Vigot, Paris, 1944
- Marcel Petit, Boxe: technique et entraînement, Paris, Ed. Amphora, Paris, 1972
Other websites
change- (in French) Antenna WKA-France - Lexicon of the boxes pieds-poings (Rubric "Formations", onglet "Ceinture noire")
- (in French) Lexicon of Netboxe.com Archived 2008-12-19 at the Wayback Machine
- (in French) Practical folios of Netboxe.com Archived 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- (in English) BoxRec Boxing Encyclopaedia