Attacking Mace (EPAK Yellow #9)

April 20, 2010 by KenpoTech Leave a Comment

Technique: Attacking Mace

Attack: Right Step Through Punch
Attack Direction: 12:00
Web of Knowledge: Punches
Family Group: Punches
Official (24 Tech) Location: Yellow #9
32 Tech Location: Not found
16 Tech Location: Yellow #9
Form Locations: Not found in forms
Related Tracy Technique: Kenpo Shield
Attacking Mace is the 9th technique required to obtain your Yellow Belt in Ed Parkers American Kenpo.
Attacking Mace is a defense against a right step through punch placing it in the Punches category of the Web
of Knowledge and the Punches Family Group in the Family Groups Striking Division.
This technique is your second defense against a punch and it teaches the value of checking your opponents
leverage points to control height, width and depth in order. A grabbing check is used and reverse motion is
used twice. You will also step back with the right foot for the first time.

Defense
Step 1:

Step back toward 6:00 with your right foot to form a left neutral bow stance.

Deliver a left inward block to the outside of your opponents right arm.

Cock your right hand at your right hip.

Step 2:

Pivot counterclockwise into a left forward bow stance.

Deliver a right straight thrust punch to your opponents right rib cage.

Check high with your left hand.

Step 3:

Circle your right hand under and outside your opponents right arm to grab and pull your
opponents arm with your right hand.

Deliver a right front snapping ball kick to the groin.

Step 4:

Plant your right foot forward towards 12:00 checking the inside of your opponents right knee.

Deliver a left snapping vertical punch to your opponents kidney.

Step 5:

Cover toward 6:00.

Additional Information

Name
As previously stated, the mace is symbolic of the fist. The name here derives from your opponents attacking
fist.

Attack
The ideal phase has the attacker in front of you possibly in a left neutral bow. The attacker then steps towards
you with their right foot as they deliver a right thrusting vertical punch to your face, neck or upper chest.

Basics & Maneuvers Used

Right Reverse Step Through

Left Neutral Bow Stance

Left Hammering Inward Block

Left Forward Bow Stance

Right straight Thrust Punch

Right Front Snapping Ball Kick

Left Inverted Horizontal Snapping Uppercut Punch

Targets

Outside of the right arm, below the elbow

Right lower ribs

Outside right wrist

Groin/Bladder

Right kidney

Concepts & Principles Taught

Backup Mass

Body Momentum

Torque

Considerations
What if

your opponent does not step through?

your opponent steps forward with his left leg?

your opponent punches your midsection instead of your face?

your opponent attacks you with full body momentum?

your opponent precedes his punch with a right step through kick

your opponent is thrusting a club.

your back is against a wall

your opponent punches with his right hand then follows with his left?

your opponent falls to his knees after your first punch?

your right wrist grab slips off your opponents wrist?

Related Techniques

Dance of Death

Evading the Storm

Thundering Hammers

Darting Mace

Sleeper

Flashing Wings

Glancing Spear

Desperate Falcons

Aggressive Twins

Historical Notes

The 1975 Accumulative Journal ends with the right snapping ball kick by having you plant back
towards 6:00 into a left neutral bow stance with your hands up in a fighting position.

Historical Versions
1975 Accumulative Journal
ATTACKING MACE (front straight right punch)
1.

With feet together drop back with your right foot into a left neutral bow stance as you execute a left
inward strike outside of opponents right punch.

2.

Pivot into a left forward bow stance as you execute a right straight thrust punch to the right rib cage of
your opponent keeping your left hand open in a checking position at on or above his right elbow.

3.

Circle your right hand down in and around (countergrab) to become a grab out side opponents right
wrist, and as you pull him in toward you strike him in the right rib-cage or solar-plexus with your right front
snap ball kick. From your right kick plant down and back into a left neutral bow stance, with your hands in
the fighting position.

4.

No cover out is required.

Unfinished Yellow Belt Manual by Ed Parker

ATTACKING MACE (front right step through straight punch)
1.

With your feet together, drop back with your right foot toward 6:00 into a left neutral bow stance
(facing 12:00), as you execute a left inward block to the outside of your opponents right punch. During
this action, your right hand cocks forward and slightly to the right of your solar plexus (fist clenched and
palm up). (This action will turn and momentarily check the width of your opponents body.)

2.

Immediately pivot into a left forward bow stance as you execute a right straight horizontal thrust punch
to the right lower ribcage of your opponent. Make sure that your left hand is open as it checks your
opponents right elbow. (Your action should cause your opponent to bend forward at the waist, and to be
forced back slightly.)

3.

Circle your right hand clockwise so that it travels down, out, over, and around your opponents right
arm as you countergrab the outside of his right wrist. Immediately pull your opponents arm diagonally and
down past your right hip, while simultaneously delivering a right roundhouse kick to his groin. During this
action, cock your left hand slightly above your left ribcage (fist clenched and palm up). (Your kick and pull
should cause your opponent to bend forward even further, thus exposing his right kidney.)

4.

Drop forward into a right forward bow toward 12:00, while simultaneously executing a left snapping
vertical punch to your opponents right kidney, with your right leg ON AND OVER THE LINE OF ENTRY.
(Make sure your right knee is inside of, but over your opponents right knee and pressing up against it.
Your punch combined with your buckle will drop your opponent to the ground, as well as move him away
from you.)