Ok, I may just be a little daft, but I'm not sure I understand your point here. I mean I understand letting your attack carry through. We do that alot in mantis, and I understnad grabbing the hand, or hitting the hand with a strike or kick, we use that as well. However, it seems that striking the body with the opposite hand is a wasted movement no? It ties up both hands while you may need the other hand to block or attack. Slapping your own chest while striking takes away part of your defense or guard. Also, slapping a moving stirke not only removes power from it but changes its direction (even if minimally). How do you combat these issues while using the slapping technique? I mean, I'm not suggesting chambering yoru attacks at all (I am of course a mantis person) but applying a slap (force) to your attack removes needed precision in my opinion and occupies both hands while only utilizing one. Voluntarily adding a changing point to a strike would be a bad habit to get into in drills no? Or is this something done in forms and drills that is not used in application or fighting?Kembudo-Kai Kempoka said:In a kenpo word: Rebounding. Microseconds matter in combat. Rather than striking a "1" strike (in FMA terms) and returning to a chamber before sending out the next strike, letting the one carry through under it's own momentum until it contacts some part of your own body allows you to re-start into a new direction with a new strike in about 1/4 the time involved with re-chambering the strike for the next hit. Like skipping stones off the waters surface....the time the stone is in flight, it's a natural weapon hitting an opponent, and passing through the target, instead of stopping on it. Skipping off the water at an angle that sends it back into motion is the self-slap. Up and away into the next leap is the next strike, incidently on its way to the next hit.
I guess I understand your explination as far as "rebounding" but that dose not apply to slapping ones own chest with one hand while striking with the other does it?
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