Bao wrote:Personally, I don't believe in throwing "half punches", weak jabs and similar. An attack should always be committed and always look like a committed attack, even if you want to use it as a feint or set-up. Half-assed attacks will only give an experienced opponent a chance to launch real attacks and put pressure on you. But you want force your opponent to retreat so you can continue attacking, forcing him to continue to defend himself.
GrahamB wrote:Bao wrote:Personally, I don't believe in throwing "half punches", weak jabs and similar. An attack should always be committed and always look like a committed attack, even if you want to use it as a feint or set-up. Half-assed attacks will only give an experienced opponent a chance to launch real attacks and put pressure on you. But you want force your opponent to retreat so you can continue attacking, forcing him to continue to defend himself.
That is, frankly, terrible advice.
"Best of all the punches is the "stepping straight jolt," delivered with either fist from the "falling step." It has fall, spring and whirl.
That stepping jolt must not be confused with the "ordinary straight punch" that is delivered at medium range without moving the feet, and that depends almost entirely on shoulder whirl. The stepping jolt is a much more explosive blow.
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I use the expression "left jolt" instead of "left jab" because I don't want you to confuse the type of straight left you will throw, with the futile straight left or "jab" used by most current amateur and professional boxers. Most of them couldn't knock your hat off with their left jabs. With their lefts, they tap, they slap, they flick, they paw, they "paint." Their jabs are used more to confuse than to stun.
Their jabs are used as fluttering defensive flags to prevent their poorly instructed opponents from "getting set to punch." A good fighter doesn't have to "get set." He's always ready to punch. Some of them use their jabs merely to make openings for their rights. And that's dangerously silly, for the proper brand of feinting would accomplish the same purpose. "
Bhassler wrote:I still think that anyone who believes they can neutralize a strike purely via body motion should stand with their eyes closed and let someone (preferably a wife or girlfriend) slap them in the face as hard as they can. Proceed to neutralize and report back (video would be better).
Master Fung: Now your on the right track. Field strength exercises will help develop the proper timing for using Hunyuan strength against an opponent. The basic idea is to intercept the opponents intent so he ends up receiving not only your strength but a reflection of his strength as well.
The O.O.D.A. Loop is a process we go through hundreds if not thousands of times in a single day. It is a process that defines how we humans react to stimulus.
Bhassler wrote:I still think that anyone who believes they can neutralize a strike purely via body motion should stand with their eyes closed and let someone (preferably a wife or girlfriend) slap them in the face as hard as they can. Proceed to neutralize and report back (video would be better).
rojcewiczj wrote:That how you neutralize strikes, by moving your spine, which includes you head. The point is that CMA is based on maximizing the backs ability to neutralize the opponents force through appropriate actions, including evasion.
rojcewiczj wrote:Bhassler wrote:I still think that anyone who believes they can neutralize a strike purely via body motion should stand with their eyes closed and let someone (preferably a wife or girlfriend) slap them in the face as hard as they can. Proceed to neutralize and report back (video would be better).
Head movement is body movement, it comes from moving the spine. That how you neutralize strikes, by moving your spine, which includes you head. The point is that CMA is based on maximizing the backs ability to neutralize the opponents force through appropriate actions, including evasion.
windwalker wrote:Bhassler wrote:I still think that anyone who believes they can neutralize a strike purely via body motion should stand with their eyes closed and let someone (preferably a wife or girlfriend) slap them in the face as hard as they can. Proceed to neutralize and report back (video would be better).
Or it might be the case for those suggesting this. :-\
They my not understand some of the theory by which some of it is said to work
To attempt to neutralize the strike after it makes contact, is already too late....
One should be able to sense and neutralize the "intent"
preceding the strike....
For many they may not have the development they feel they have concerning this aspect.
Besides getting slapped there are other ways of testing it...Master Fung: Now your on the right track. Field strength exercises will help develop the proper timing for using Hunyuan strength against an opponent. The basic idea is to intercept the opponents intent so he ends up receiving not only your strength but a reflection of his strength as well.
http://www.yichuankungfu.com/cheuk-fung/empty-force/
A good explanation although there seems to be some aspects he doesn't touch on....
Main point : A strike or hit, has already occurred before the actual event.
before
during
after
timingThe O.O.D.A. Loop is a process we go through hundreds if not thousands of times in a single day. It is a process that defines how we humans react to stimulus.
One can retrain the reaction stimulus.
Bhassler wrote:I still think that anyone who believes they can neutralize a strike purely via body motion should stand with their eyes closed and let someone (preferably a wife or girlfriend) slap them in the face as hard as they can. Proceed to neutralize and report back (video would be better).
Bhassler wrote:
If you define "spine movement" broadly enough to include stepping or, in fact, all movement of the body, then your model will be both accurate and not very useful. It may be helpful to an individual to think of things that way in their own mental vernacular, but if you make blanket statements like "CMA is based on maximizing the back's ability to neutralize", then you're automatically going off the rails into language that sounds pretty but doesn't really help anyone. You've essentially just replaced terms like "dantian" or "chi" with something that appeals to your own world view.
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