Five Steps to a Punch!

[I:http://www.vegetarianvitaminsguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AlCase19.jpg]What is the difference between the punch of somebody like Mas Oyama, who could kill a bull, and your punch? If you conducted an autopsy on him you wouldn’t find any significant differences between his fists and yours. So what was he doing that you aren’t?

Well, he had an overwhelming confidence in himself, but he also had the correct data on how to make a punch. He simply had to have the data, for if he didn’t he couldn’t have killed a bull. This article is about what he knew.

One must connect oneself to planet earth. This involves letting/making the energy course through the legs and into the ground. You do this by doing your forms while relaxing and breathing to the tan tien and letting the energy go 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.