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Since you've posted in the Karate forum, I'll answer this from a Karate practitioner's point of view.
Keep practicing your fundamental techniques repeatedly, and under the watchful eye of your sensei. If he has a good understanding of bodily mechanics, he can help you refine those fundamental techniques to the point where you'll be performing them using the correct mechanics. In this case, the lower body will greatly aid the upper body in almost all of your techniques, and can certainly speed things up.
Also, the more polished your techniques become, the more easily you can chain them together. This is true regardless of which system you study.
A lot of Karate systems that train their practitioners to use deep and rooted stances, do so mostly for conditioning, and to force your lower body to assume more of the load of training. During actual jiyu kumite, you'll be fighting in more of a natural stance, since being flat-footed will slow you down too much.
Again, by practicing the basic techniques, that's when your lower body will generate the correct muscle memory.
This is true, that thinking too much will create unwanted delays. This can be remedied by constant practice of the technique, focusing on the quality of the technique, and repeated to the point where you don't have to think about it.
Keep training, and you'll develop good aerobic and anaerobic conditioning.
Having a good reach is a wonderful thing, indeed, but you shouldn't depend on it. Keep strengthening your core, and you'll see more of an advantage over simply trying to formulate strategies based on reach advantages. There's always someone bigger, after all.
Keep practicing your fundamental techniques repeatedly, and under the watchful eye of your sensei. If he has a good understanding of bodily mechanics, he can help you refine those fundamental techniques to the point where you'll be performing them using the correct mechanics. In this case, the lower body will greatly aid the upper body in almost all of your techniques, and can certainly speed things up.
Also, the more polished your techniques become, the more easily you can chain them together. This is true regardless of which system you study.
A lot of Karate systems that train their practitioners to use deep and rooted stances, do so mostly for conditioning, and to force your lower body to assume more of the load of training. During actual jiyu kumite, you'll be fighting in more of a natural stance, since being flat-footed will slow you down too much.
Again, by practicing the basic techniques, that's when your lower body will generate the correct muscle memory.
This is true, that thinking too much will create unwanted delays. This can be remedied by constant practice of the technique, focusing on the quality of the technique, and repeated to the point where you don't have to think about it.
Keep training, and you'll develop good aerobic and anaerobic conditioning.
Having a good reach is a wonderful thing, indeed, but you shouldn't depend on it. Keep strengthening your core, and you'll see more of an advantage over simply trying to formulate strategies based on reach advantages. There's always someone bigger, after all.
