Nopunde Bakat Palmok Yop Makgi
Literally: high outer forearm side block
Also known as: High Outer Forearm Side Block
A high side block with the outer forearm in ITF Taekwon-Do; the tul Do-San opens with it and repeats it four times.
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Nopunde bakat palmok yop makgi is, in ITF terminology, a high outer forearm side block. The outer side of the forearm, bakat palmok, blocks at a high level, nopunde, and the blocking direction is sideways, yop. In the tul Do-San it forms the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 11th movement, in Yul-Gok the 32nd and 34th movement.
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