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Also known as blow, hit, beat, bash, pommel, swat

directed physical attack

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Named after
strike
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US Navy 051103-M-2175L-200 U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ryan Papa, right, assigned to 2nd Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, holds a striking pad for a member of the Senegalese 90th Naval Infantry.jpg
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attack
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Category:Strikes (martial arts)
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Hitting
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blocking
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Encyclopedic overview

Senegalese Naval Infantry and US Marines practice striking.

A strike is a directed, forceful physical attack with either a part of the human body or with a handheld object (such as a melee weapon), intended to cause blunt or penetrating trauma upon an opponent.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “strike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.