Receive-and-strike counter

Bada chigi (받아치기) is a response technique in kumdo. The Korea Kumdo Association (대한검도회) describes it as receiving the jukdo (죽도) of an opponent who is attacking, as if welcoming it, and immediately striking the target on the side opposite the one used to receive.

It belongs to the response techniques (대응 기술, daeung gisul). Per a Korean kumdo study sheet, these are techniques in which the attack is stopped with the jukdo and the body and a counterattack follows through the opening. They include seuchyeo ollligi (스쳐올리기), bada chigi and chyeoseo tteoreotteurigi (쳐서 떨어뜨리기).

The key idea is that the one who receives draws the opponent into attacking, takes the opponent's momentum, and strikes using the force of the reception.

• Examples: meori-bada meori-chigi (머리받아 머리치기), meori-bada heori-chigi (머리받아 허리치기), sonmok-bada sonmok-chigi (손목받아 손목치기) and heori-bada meori-chigi (허리받아 머리치기).
• Practical note: read the opponent's distance and speed. Against a high strike, receive high and return with a small movement. Against a low strike, receive from below and return with a large movement.
• Japanese equivalent: a Korean study sheet lists a category of receive-then-turn-the-blade attacks next to the Japanese name 返し技 (kaeshi-waza).