From: Jason Stanley
20th December 2004, 11.25am

Dear karate enthusiast,

If you've been practicing karate for more than a couple of weeks you'll know that it's extremely awkward to adapt to the "karate way of punching" in the beginning, but then after some time you'll start to "get the hang of it". After all, hundreds of years of punching practice taught in dojos all over the world must have developed the most efficient and powerful way to punch, right?

Not Exactly!

I'm about to question the foundations of your basic technique. I don't mean to be rude but I'd really like you pay close attention, because what I'm about to show you proves to over 90% of students that there is a more efficient and powerful way to punch. I'm going to show you that what you've been learning in class might actually be making your punch weaker than before you started karate!

Yes.

Really.

Twisting the hips in the traditional way is not the best way to maximize your punching power!

Most traditional styles emphasize "using the hips" to make a powerful punch. This is a good start, however the traditional technique of twisting the hips leaves a little to be desired. Yes, the biggest muscles are in the legs, and yes by rotating the hips you will get more drive and a stronger technique than by using the arm alone, however this is not enough. Wouldn't you like to punch as hard as you possibly can?

Just to prove it to you I'd like you to try this simple exercise...

Stand up and take your forward stance and make your reverse punch. If you are like most people you rotate your hips on the center axis, just like a revolving door. As one hip goes forward the other twists back. The punching arm moves forward immediately after the rear hip moves forward sending the hikete (pull back hand) backwards with the opposite hip.

Now continue to twist your hips and extend your punch. As you make this movement, you will notice something that becomes increasingly evident with over-rotation. What happens to your front leg?

It starts to straighten and your back foot starts to rotate inwards....

Your stance begins to collapse!

Where is your weight going at this point?

Your weight is no longer behind your technique
which is one of the things expert instructors will tell you is critical for making a strong punch...

...yet they teach you to twist the hips so one hip goes forward and one hip goes backwards!

Isn't this a contradiction?

How on earth can you hit effectively if your weight is not behind you? Isn't karate punching about learning to hit as effectively as possible? With as much force as possible? If so, why would you twist you hips so that it sends one hip backwards which results in a weakened stance with your weight remaining centered instead of being behind your technique?

This simple exercise uncovers a major flaw in traditional karate punching. If you are twisting your hips in this traditional way and and stopping your punch square on you are:

1. Limiting your reach
2. Not punching "through" the target
3. Your weight is not behind your technique.

If you are twisting your hips past the "square on" position then:

1. Your stance is becoming weaker.
2. Your punch is becoming powerless as a result of the weakened stance with over-rotation.

At a conservative estimate over 90% of students are not maximizing their punching power!

By studying the most powerful punchers from history together with modern day science, we see that we can develop punches more powerful than those of many of our karate ancestors...

Respectfully, our karate ancestors didn't have access to sophisticated equipment to measure impact, nor did they have as greater understanding of the human anatomy and bio mechanics like we do today. They did however learn to punch the most effective way with the tools at their disposal.

Mas Oyama, the founder of Kyokushinkai fought 52 bulls, killing 3 instantly with punches, and took the horns of 49 with knife-hand blows. One way he taught students to increase the power in their punch, was that they should squeeze their pinky finger at the point of impact...

However this insn't the "missing factor" that is lacking in most people's technique. It's just one of dozens of aspects that must all be MAXIMIZED to give you the most powerful punch possible.

If you are not maximizing every single aspect then your punch will be just like 90% of karate students... it will be mediocre at best.... hardly something to be relying on in a self defense situation.

Here's a way to say good-bye to ineffective striking
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