Raking Lightning
Raking: To chamber or strike past your centerline
Lightning: Linear kick
Attack
The Ideal attack requires your opponent be in front of you. The attack is a right snapping side kick or right snapping ball kick to your groin or midsection.
Defense Pattern
1. Point of origin: Right Interview Stance with your arms up.
2. Left Step Back toward 7:30 into a Right Neutral Bow Stance as you execute a Right Downward Diagonal Block against the outside of your opponent’s right leg. Left Positional Check at your solar plexus during your block.
3. Left Front Crossover toward 12:00 into a Left Front Twist Stance with a Left Pressing Check to your opponent’s right arm while delivering a Right Thrusting Back Knuckle to your opponent’s right arm. Immediately chamber your right arm across your body above your left arm.
4. Deliver a Right Knife-Edge Side Kick to the back of your opponent’s left knee.
5. Plant Forward into Right Neutral Bow Stance (facing 1:30) and deliver an arcing Right Outward Back Knuckle to your opponent’s right mastoid or right temple.
6. Deliver a Right Inward Heel Palm Claw to your opponent’s face.
7. Perform a Right Front Crossover and Cover Out toward 7:30.
Alternate Names
Though there are similarities between techniques named here the techniques taught in the different branches of the Kenpo family also have notable differences.
We know that each school presents information with a different style and signature that is uniquely associated with their staff and students. Always defer to the instructing staff at your school for guidance should there be any differences in the information being presented.
The American Institute of Kenpo (AIK):
Raking Lightning
Ed Parker American Kenpo Systems (EPAKS)*:
Hugging Pendulum
*The EPAKS system is copyrighted and all rights are reserved by the Parker Family.
Training Disclaimer
The American Institute of Kenpo (AIK) strongly recommends that all training be overseen by experienced and qualified instructors. Individuals choosing to train without the recommended oversight assume full liability for any and all injuries. In addition, those individuals engaging in training without the oversight of the American Institute of Kenpo’s (AIK’s) certified instructors will be doing so with the understanding and acknowledgment that they are waving subrogation and holding harmless the American Institute of Kenpo (AIK), it's members, and affiliates.