For a punch to be effective there are several necessary items. There must be sufficientfocus to a precise spot in space. It must be void of energy.
You heard me right, a punch must be empty. Most people know that the word Karate means 'Empty Hands.' Most people have assumed, from this, that you won't be using weapons, but they are wrong. What the phrase really means is that the hand has no mass, that it is actually empty in a physics sense.
Striking with no mass is an interesting sensation. Taken to its purest and highest elevation, it means that you do not feel the strike, and this is possible. This would mean that you are actually outside the body and throwing the body, like a big freakin' ghost would throw a rock.
On other levels it means that you don't experience the feeling of weight. Why can a child run under a table with no effort, when if you bent your legs and did the same thing it would take tremendous effort? Because the child hasn't realized the concept of weight, yet.
So how do you make yourself have no weight? You do it through mental discipline. You train the mind by making the body do what you want, and the best way to train the mind is through the simple fact of forms.
People who speak slightingly of forms haven't done them sufficient to see what happens at the end. When you master a form you become lightly removed from your body, and you gain, and lose, different perceptions when it comes to motion. It is very interesting to do a form and feel the whistling sensation of being an object thrown through space.
Fortunately, this is a pleasant sensation, and yet, when done in a strike, it results in the unbelievable damage to an opponent. Simply, he doesn't have a defense for something that has become part of the whole universe, and seems to defy concepts of time and perception. This, incidentally, is the feeling of mind of no mind, Mushin no shin.
Your body is still going to weigh the same, and then some, when colliding with an opponent, when you practice doing your art with no weight. Just because you don't consider yourself to have weight doesn't mean that the weight isn't there. Actually, it is even more there, because when you move weightless, and think weightless, you move faster, and your opponent will anticipate accordingly.
You heard me right, a punch must be empty. Most people know that the word Karate means 'Empty Hands.' Most people have assumed, from this, that you won't be using weapons, but they are wrong. What the phrase really means is that the hand has no mass, that it is actually empty in a physics sense.
Striking with no mass is an interesting sensation. Taken to its purest and highest elevation, it means that you do not feel the strike, and this is possible. This would mean that you are actually outside the body and throwing the body, like a big freakin' ghost would throw a rock.
On other levels it means that you don't experience the feeling of weight. Why can a child run under a table with no effort, when if you bent your legs and did the same thing it would take tremendous effort? Because the child hasn't realized the concept of weight, yet.
So how do you make yourself have no weight? You do it through mental discipline. You train the mind by making the body do what you want, and the best way to train the mind is through the simple fact of forms.
People who speak slightingly of forms haven't done them sufficient to see what happens at the end. When you master a form you become lightly removed from your body, and you gain, and lose, different perceptions when it comes to motion. It is very interesting to do a form and feel the whistling sensation of being an object thrown through space.
Fortunately, this is a pleasant sensation, and yet, when done in a strike, it results in the unbelievable damage to an opponent. Simply, he doesn't have a defense for something that has become part of the whole universe, and seems to defy concepts of time and perception. This, incidentally, is the feeling of mind of no mind, Mushin no shin.
Your body is still going to weigh the same, and then some, when colliding with an opponent, when you practice doing your art with no weight. Just because you don't consider yourself to have weight doesn't mean that the weight isn't there. Actually, it is even more there, because when you move weightless, and think weightless, you move faster, and your opponent will anticipate accordingly.
About the Author:
Al Case has researched the martial arts for forty++ years. You can learn The Perfect Punch at Monster Martial Arts.
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