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My punching training was really simple. I had two strikes:
1. Straight punch to the solar plexus
2. Uppercut to below the chin (going up and forward)
I did these for ten years. I never worried about punching to the face, or to the bicep, or to various nerve clusters, or other weird targets.
Then I met a friend who used a ton of targets I'd never thought ...
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They can. The fundamentals of any technique can be brought back to leverage.
Your balance point isn't a foot or two anymore, it's your back. And, more precisely, a small area of your back, depending on, for instance, where your shoulders and hips are. And you may even have a foot or two, or an elbow, in there as well. There's a lot of flux there, which ...
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Kata on the Ground
When I taught karate, I used to do my various Isshinryu forms and try to find applications on the ground. I looked for sweeps in Chinto, arm-drags in Seisan, ground-and-pound in Seiunchin.
This takes a lot of time: you need to train variations of the kata on your back, on top of the opponent, sitting, and so on. There's a lot of mental ...
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What is precision?
There's a misconception about what it means to be precise, so to illustrate, let's examine two options:
OPT1: A direct punch going straight out.
OPT2: A punch that follows the target.
If we attempt to strike a given moving target, it is the natural inclination to want to follow the target (OPT2) as we strike. This extends the length of ...
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Limits to punching precision
The limit to punching precision is precisely hitting your intended target. Many boxers, kickboxers, MMA fighters, karateka and so on do this regularly. Watch Matsui's 100-man kumite, or an Anderson Silva highlight, or a Floyd Mayweather match. They hit their targets, period. Their accuracy is 100% on many punches.
You aren't ...
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Knowing which MA you are studying is important in tailoring your precision techniques, as with anything else relating to a particular MA style. However this only becomes more crucial at the stage when you are already an advanced student in that discipline. Here is why:
I guess you would agree that what you really mean is how to hit a target with precision. ...
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