I donāt understand your comment. How do you feel it would get you tossed on your head? And how more so than if you stand in a square horse and punch, without the stance change?
Ok let me Say this first, I do not claim to be any sort of master of anything at all. I am a student and hobbyist of martial arts for 39 years,and almost 25 years in Wing Woo Gar. I focus on balance, posture, and coordination when I teach. Speaking to what I saw in that video specifically? First, leaning and reaching with the punch. Second, pushing up out of the horse instead of pulling with the foot and folding the ankle and sitting down on the legs. Third, the fist I see is limp and not properly formed for the punch. I could go on, but I can answer your question starting there. If you put those three things together, you are pushing off and reaching out to full extension with a limp fist while leaning forward. Practically begging someone with even minimal throwing experience to help you along to the floor. This is easy to demonstrate. I do it to my students all the time. Have a friend try it(without actually throwing you). Just sit in your horse stance, shoot your punch to full extension, have a friend grab your fist and pull gently. Did you lose your balance? Have to take a short step forward? Did you resist and pull back? Now do the same thing but push up out Of the horse. The point is this, everything has to come from the bottom of the foot. Itās physics, itās not jumbo jumbo. How hard can you punch in zero gravity With nothing to push or pull against? So then during practice, (not a fight per se) it makes sense to feel the bottom of the foot and pull against the earth while folding and stacking the bones and internal structures. it is simple to topple a crooked structure.
Whether itās horse or not, it doesnāt look good to me, plain and simple.
So, this is a very, very brief clip which makes commentary on the quality of the individual participants somewhat difficult to make. I see what you mean about a weak fist and wrist. But honestly I wasnāt even looking at those little details. Instead I was looking at the overall methodology, as a systematic approach for developing full body connection and driving the punch from the feet, up the legs, through the rotation of the torso, and down the arm. That is a powerful method, nevermind that every method, no matter how solid, has its share of poor practitioners and itās share of good practitioners.
I still remember that after only 6 months of this training (60 punches daily), I could
Do you agree with the following statements?
I do not agree with this, but perhaps the definition of what it means to compress needs to be clearly stated. As I look at our methods, I would not describe it as compressing, and we have never, to my recollection, called it that.
I canāt say that the last to are true or not true. I would say it always depends.
We donāt use the word compress either, but I think I know what he means. Anything can work, we are very fragile creatures. I donāt say you canāt generate power that way, I say that I donāt like the look of that. It was the combination of execution and poor structure added to rising up and turning the hip that would assist someone throwing them. Read my earlier comment on testing it with a friend. The individuals in the video may not be executing the excercise correctly or with good form, but then why film or use it for example? If they are executing it as taught, then I take issue with the entirety of it. I am giving my opinion on structure as it relates to training, this is demonstrably poor structure. Either I am on my legs or I am not. The foot and the root are the key. The bottom moves the top, the back moves the front, the inside moves the outside. Take that to the bank. Talking about it is fun, but results are what count. Training hard and being brutally honest with myself can make me a rather rough critic. I am a firm believer that what you do in the gym is what you will do in the street. I am not an expert, I do however have some experiences that affect my opinion. In the end, itās the man, not the style that counts. My opinion is just that, an opinion. Take it for what itās worth. Try it out, you have nothing to lose. For my part, I tried this videoās technique out in the gym, I can see the value in the concept if performed with good form and structure.
Well, the way I see it, that full rotation is part of the training methodology that teaches you how to get the full body connection. But in that learning and drilling phase, the movement is exaggerated and can later be virtually eliminated once you have developed the skill. You train large, to become small. That power is still there even with smaller movement. So I agree, you fight as you train, but I suspect that what I mean by that may be somewhat different from what others mean by it.
Or we could even see that there already are subtle compressions within the body occurring even while standing! So capitalising on those and learning to release those into the strikes without doing a precursor action to CREATE a compression might be an interesting trajectory...
Thatās baaaaad.
