Four Corner Parrying
The immovable-elbow position is fundamental to all parrying, deflecting, and blocking in gung fu. Defense in gung fu takes place along the four boundaries through the application of the four corner parries. The four corner parries take place within the four parameters of the rectangle described in the section on the immovable elbow; the groin area at the bottom, the eyebrow at the top, and the area just past the shoulders on both sides.
The corners are divided into four equal regions, or gates: the top portion of the forward-hand side (the upper outside gate), the top portion of the rear-hand side (the upper inner gate), the lower portion of the forward-hand side (the lower outside gate), and the lower portion of the rear-hand side (the lower inner gate).
Excerpted from Commentaries on the Martial Way by Bruce Lee
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