swiftpete
Blue Belt
Hi everyone just wondered what other people's thoughts on energy striking are. My teacher who has trained for many years can strike without actually putting much effort in and still have a very effective strike, with any body part, which feels very different to just being hit hard with power. He says it is down to putting energy into the strike and actually demonstrates by hitting slowly and from a short distance to show that it isnt just muscular power providing the power for the strike. When speed and power are combined with energy its very effective and feels like a deep penetrating iron bar. I know thats a bit of a rubbish analogy but hey..you get the idea hopefully!
He says its all about focus and to strike in this way it helps if you can visualise something when you first start hitting like this for example fire or flaming dice etc which you sort of imagine throwing into the persons body. I have experienced this sort of strike on me in various places and seen it very effectively demonstrated on other students including the black belts who have trained for longer than my 5 yrs. so have built up a higher level of pain resistance! So anyhow was just wondering what everyone else thought about this sort of thing and training to be able to strike in this way. I have found that with enough thought and focus i am beginning to be able to have some results hitting in this way but would definitely be interested in everyone else opinions.
Ok thanks everyone.
He says its all about focus and to strike in this way it helps if you can visualise something when you first start hitting like this for example fire or flaming dice etc which you sort of imagine throwing into the persons body. I have experienced this sort of strike on me in various places and seen it very effectively demonstrated on other students including the black belts who have trained for longer than my 5 yrs. so have built up a higher level of pain resistance! So anyhow was just wondering what everyone else thought about this sort of thing and training to be able to strike in this way. I have found that with enough thought and focus i am beginning to be able to have some results hitting in this way but would definitely be interested in everyone else opinions.
Ok thanks everyone.