Power generation

[origami_itto]

That's when you release it fully.

Think of it like bicep and tricep, when you relax one the other contracts. Instead, when you release the stored energy in one, you capture it in the other. But all the muscles, all the potential gravitational positional energy.

Every muscle has a pair, so every muscle group can function like this. Isometric, but not static. Plyometric but not explosive.

Less about tensing than about releasing and loading.

In your explanation, you have never mentioned the word "opponent". IMO, the term "power generation" is meaningless if there is no opponent to receive your power.

You don't need to generate power for health. You do need to generate power to knock your opponent down.

Something bothers me quite a bit in this forum discussion. For some unknown reason, it seems to me that people in the forum don't care much about

- opponent,
- power,
- speed,
- punch,
- ...

and I don't understand why?

There is no opponent.

Again, though, it's about moving the energy around until we want to release it. Store, mobilize, release.

When you have that and can release it at any time then you can worry about somebody trying to hurt you while you do it.

Also why you don't see a lot of people just punching air, kind of dumb to dry fire a weapon like that.

[johnwang]

There is no opponent.

Why do we even train CMA if there is no opponent?

[origami_itto]

There is no opponent.

Why do we even train CMA if there is no opponent?

If you wait till you have an opponent, you won't get much training done, now will you?

[wayne hansen]

Trick unlike Germany David was only 5ft 2 and tried to appease William

[johnwang]

If you wait till you have an opponent, you won't get much training done, now will you?

One can't develop any combat skill without opponent (training partner).

[BruceP]

Yang Taiji "brush knee twist step" is "compress and release".

I was shown "release and compress"

[johnwang]

Yang Taiji "brush knee twist step" is "compress and release".

I was shown "release and compress"

You have compress or store before you can release.

[origami_itto]

One can't develop any combat skill without opponent (training partner).

Power generation and combat skill are different things. That's why when boxers work on their punching power, they do it by themselves.
When they work on applying that power, that's a different exercise.

But you can't work on developing the power with somebody trying to hit you. You'll never develop it. You have to have it already BEFORE they start hitting you.