Originally Posted by
Ben Gash
This is a pretty bread and butter San Shou catch (indeed, it's even in Cung Le's book) . The key is that there is no "chasing with both hands". You CATCH the kick with both hands, you DEFEND the kick with your feet. It's very difficult to defend a decent linear kick with your arms, first line of defence should always be range control (as with linear punches). Once the kick has failed to reach you then it's relatively straightforward to catch it with both hands.