Harimau Juru
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[video of Harimau Juru performed fast and slow, viewed from cameras at #1, 3, 7, 5. Be sure that you take up the whole frame. A lot of our old kata videos are from too far away, and it hides some detail. ]
- Quickly perform the following:
- Pull your right foot into an attention stance facing #1.
- Slide your right foot out to #7, entering a ready stance facing #1, with your arms still at your sides as in attention stance.
- Pull your right foot back into an attention stance, facing #1.
- Execute a right knee kick to #1. Upon rechambering, set your right foot down to #6, and enter a right cat stance facing #1. Quickly execute the following to the opponent at #1:
- Double hook punches to their temples.
- Double tate tsuki to their face.
- Double cross-body block.
- Without rechambering, execute a double uraken uchi.
- Rising X-block (with closed fists).
- Finish by stepping your left foot out to #2, and entering a left front stance facing #1 with a mountain punch (with your right arm on top).
- Twist into a left cat stance facing #7, with a right thumbknuckle block.
- The opponent attacks with front choke from #7. Run both thumbknuckles down their arms from their shoulder to their elbow. Then arc your hands up and forward, completing the circular motion by jabbing your thumbs into their eyes.
- Reach your right hand behind opponent’s head at #7. Step your right foot out to #6, into a right front stance facing #7, with a left inside elbow strike.
- Execute a left outside shutō block, then reach your left hand behind opponent’s head at #7. Twist into a right front stance facing #1, with a right inside elbow strike.
- Execute a right outside shutō block, and use both hands to push the opponent’s head down into a knee kick to #8.
- Immediately step your right foot to #1, entering a right hook stance facing #1, with a left rising shutō block.
- Execute a left front kick to #1. Upon re-chambering, slide your left foot out to #2, entering a left front stance facing #1 with a right, then left, hiraken uchi at the opponent's solar plexus-level to #1.
- Immediately reach behind the opponent’s head with your left hand, and twist into a left hook stance facing #3, with a right inside elbow strike.
- Execute a right nami-ashi, and step your right foot to #1 and entering a horse stance facing #3 with a simultaneous left pressing block and a right reverse elbow strike to #7.
- Quickly look to #5. Twist into a right cat stance facing #5 with a left naifu-kinniku.
- Execute a left front kick to #5. Upon re-chambering, return to a right cat stance. Invert your cat stance, and step your right foot to #3, entering a right front stance facing #4 with a left pressing block. Execute a right koko uchi at throat-level to #4.
- Quickly look to #6. Twist into a left front stance facing #6, with a left naifu-kinniku. Execute a right hiraken uchi at solar plexus-level to #6.
- Quickly look to #1. Execute a right nami-ashi, stepping your right foot to #5, entering a transitional left sanchin dachi facing #6, with your hands on the right hip. Immediately twist into a right cat stance, facing #1, with a simultaneous right rising and left forward shutō blocks (with your forearms never leaving your centerline).
- Shift into a left hook stance facing #1 with a Kūsankū left rising shutō block, and a right tate-shutō.
- Execute a right front kick, then your step right foot out to #8, entering a right front stance to #1, with a right downward shutō block. Execute a left hiraken uchi at the opponent's solar plexus-level to #1.
- Execute a left nami-ashi, and set your foot down to #1, entering a right full-side-facing (with your chest to #7).
- Shift into a left full-side-facing (with your chest to #7) with a right ude uke.
- Kneel on your right knee, facing #1. Point your right elbow upward, to shield your head with your arm.
- Rise up into a right full-side-facing (with your chest to #7), with a right thumbknuckle block, immediately followed by a left outside palmheel strike to the opponent’s side at #7.
- Quickly look to #1. Step your left foot out to #6, entering a right hook stance facing #1, with a left ridgehand block.
- Step your left foot out to #2, entering a left front stance facing #1, with a left outside shutō block. Execute a right, then left hiraken uchi at the opponent's solar plexus to #1, followed by a right inside ridgehand strike at neck-level to #1.
- Execute a two-hand lapel grab to #1, pulling the opponent into a right knee kick. Set your right foot down to #1, entering a left full-side-facing (with your chest to #3), and pull your hands to your left hip for a tai-otoshi.
- Slide your right foot to #6, entering a right cat stance facing #2, with a kakiwake uke (with closed fists).
- Step your left foot to #5, then immediately your step right foot to #4, entering a left hook stance facing #1, with a right thumbknuckle block. Execute a left hiraken uchi at solar plexus to #1.
- Step your left foot back to #4, entering a right front stance, facing #1 with a right downward shutō block. Execute a left hiraken uchi at the opponent's solar plexus-level to #1.
- Step your left foot to #6, entering a right back stance facing #1, with a left shutō block.
- Pull your hands to your hips as you execute a left nami-ashi. Step your left foot to #2, entering a left front stance facing #1, with a rising X-block (with open hands).
- Pull your hands to your hips as you execute a left nami-ashi. Step your left foot to #3 and enter a horse stance facing #1, with a downward X-block (open hands).
- Pull hands to your hips as you draw your right leg in, entering an attention stance. Goshin-Jutsu bow.