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A: It was a pretty nice roundhouse.
B: Thanks ; l'm taking these super awesome karate lessons...
A: But you telegraphed the sweep.
When you lift up your foot like that, it shifts all the weight to your back leg. More windup, less power.
Does "you telegraphed the sweep" mean your opponent realized what you would to his leg?
Aug 31, 2022 4:15 PM
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这个问题我是真的无法理解,不过我觉得应该是D
August 31, 2022
In this dialogue, sweep means to swing one's leg to attack someone (usually to hit their legs and cause them to fall).
Windup means the movement that a person makes before doing an action like punching, kicking, or throwing an object. Imagine the backwards lean a baseball pitcher does before throwing the baseball. That is a windup. In the dialogue the person does some kind of windup before kicking
August 31, 2022
Yes
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