The reason a karate strike is the hardest strike in the world is because of this little thing called focus. Focus makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts, and it is the point at which all your energy is put together. Focus maximizes the efforts of the human being by concentrating all energy into one moment.
The interesting thing is that most arts don’t have focus. It is also interesting that many karate schools have dropped focus for the exercise of just hitting the bag. Of course, hitting the bag is fine, but it develops resistance in the body, which can, if not corrected, slow the strike down.
Proper focus is generated in the fist…and it isn’t. This contradictory oddity means that the strike must be generated through the whole body. It must travel up the legs, course through the body, and appear in the fist.
Proper body alignment is crucial to the point of impact. The body parts must be lined up between the feet and the target in a way which develops maximum efficiency. This means choosing that arrangement of the body which gives best transmission of energy.
One of the things that people don’t understand, and which is crucial to the art of karate, is the concept of emptiness. The body must be relaxed, but not to the point of limp, so that energy can travel through it. When the energy travels through the emptiness it can summate in the sudden snap, closure, of a fist.
One moves the body without mass, then snaps just the fist, and then the body is emptied of mass again. The snapping fist should make a popping sound as it closes. The idea is to snap the fist so that it closes under the skin of the enemy.
It is impossible for two objects to occupy the same space. Yes, one could thrust and knock the enemy’s body backward effectively. Snapping the fist, however, causes a shock wave to explode in the space of the enemy’s body, and the result is massive revulsion, and the enemy dropping like a rock.
Proper focus invalidates the enemies body when you place it in the space of his body. What it is really all about is invalidating the enemy when he comes at you, you see. Practice your focus, remembering these points, and you will be able to invalidate the very molecules of an enemy’s body.
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