Hitting Harder and Faster the Scientific Way!
That’s right, a punch must be empty. You have heard that the word Karate means ‘Empty Hands.’ People have thought that this means you hold no weapons, but they are wrong. What it really means is that the hand is actually empty, having no energy, and therefore mass.
It is an interesting sensation to strike with no mass. Taken to its highest and purest altitude, it means that you do not feel the strike, and this is possible. This would mean that you are not really inside the body, and you are throwing the body like a big freakin’ ghost would throw a chair.
What this really means that you don’t experience the feeling of weight. Why can a child run under a table with no effort, when if you did the same thing it would take grunting effort? Because the child hasn’t learned the concept of weight, yet.
So how do you learn the concept of having no weight? You do it by training yourself mentally. You train the mind to have the body follow directions, and this is done easily 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.
The good news is that this is a pleasant sensation, and yet, when done in a strike, it results in the most unimaginable damage to an opponent you…never imagined. Simply, he doesn’t have a defense for something that is apart from the body, and the body of the universe, and seems to slip between time and perception. This, incidentally, is the feeling of Mushin no shin, mind of no mind.
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.
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