Hitting Harder and Faster the Scientific Way!
Several items are necessary to a punch for it to be effective. Focus must be to a precise spot in space. It must have no energy in it.
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.
To strike without using mass is an interesting sensation. In its purest altitude, it means that you do not feel the strike This would mean that you are not really inside the body, that you are outside the body and throwing it around like a big freakin’ ghost would throw a chair.
On lesser levels it means that you don’t experience the sensation of weight. Why can a child bend his legs and 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 absorbed 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 don’t think much of of forms haven’t done them sufficient to see what happens at the end. You become lightly removed from your body when you master a form, and you experience different perceptions when it comes to motion. It is very interesting feel the whistling sensation of being an object thrown through space when you do a form.
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.
