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5. DOUBLE-DUTY PALM (Figs. 38-46)
Keeping your shoulder down, turn your waist to the left and chop
down until your bent right arm passes your left leg. Returning to
the right, bow your wrist and use the ridge as an attacking mem-
ber. This simulates a downward chop at an opponent's throat,
recovery, and a wrist-ridge attack to his midsection. For details see
the photos, but, again, the key is to let your arm move only as a
part of your body, never independently. A slightly different ap-
plication is seen in Figs. 44-46. Here, as you withdraw your right
leg, you chop inward (at opponent's attacking arm) and then,
stretching your leg, you attack over his arm with your wrist-ridge.
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