A Punch in Five Parts!
What is the difference between the punch of Mas Oyama, who could knock a bull on his fanny, and your punch? You wouldn't find any significant differences between his fists and yours if you conducted an autopsy on him. So what was his magical secret?
Aside from a humungous helping of belief in himself, what he had was the correct data on how to make a punch. It was obvious that he had the data, for he couldn't kill a bull without. In this article I will provide that information.
One must learn how to draw an energetical connection to planet earth. This involves letting/making the energy go through the legs and into the ground. This is actually easily done if you practice your forms while relaxing and breathing to the tan tien and letting the energy sink downwards.
Second, you must push with the legs when punching. This puts the entire body weight into the punch. Your choice is an arm punch, maybe twenty pounds times velocity, versus a body punch, your body weight times the velocity created by your leg push.
Third, hip alignment is crucial People quite frequently turn their hips so that they actually break the line of energy through the body. To test this factor, simply have somebody push on your punch and turn your hips back and forth you find the best and most efficient line of energy between fist and ground.
Fourth, One must keep the shoulders low. If you raise the shoulders the energy goes up at the shoulder, and not down through the body and into the ground. Again, have somebody push on your extended fist and raise and lower the shoulder until you can channel the flow of energy easily and without effort.
Fifth, you must snap the arm in an instant and focus energy in the fist, and keep the shoulder low and turn the hips, and push with the legs and ground, all at the same time. This is called Coordinated Body Motion--CBM.
Do all this and you know that you're ready. You're ready to go over the fence and wave your backside at that 500 pound hamburger named Beelzebub. Don't worry, I'll film the whole thing from the top of this shack over here.
About the Author:
Al Case has researched the martial arts for over forty years. You can learn All the Secrets of the punch at Monster Martial Arts.
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