Okay you've listened to the long dissertation on how to do a punch your
eyes are crossing and you're reeling from the information so now let us put
some practical descriptions on those objectives that we did in the last video
stay tuned we'll talk about it
welcome to Shihan's Dojo I'm Shihan Marty Husband and I'm here today to help
you build your knowledge and skills in the martial arts or if you're here for
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video coming out the question for the day is what is your favorite punch to
use in a self-defense situation let us know in the comments down there and we
can maybe get a big discussion about different techniques we like to use in
self-defense first and foremost before we even start
on this video I hope you've gone out and checked out my other two previous videos
to this the first one is a studying technique and the second one is
objectives of the reverse punch not that you couldn't get something from the
video that we're about to do however it would help you to have a basis to
understand where we're coming from so just click on up here and start off in
that section and come back when you through as a quick refresher remember we
covered the upper body the lower body objectives the mental objectives and the
to action jet objectives of the starting point and the ending point now look this
here we're really going to cover three sets of other things that are just
basically descriptions to the objectives we were looking at although this is not
complete it'll give us some basis for us to understand and study our own system
of techniques that we want to learn we'll start off with the punch in two
general descriptions of it then break it down with a few comments on punching and
some common errors one of the most important things that we have to cover
is relaxation relaxation is more than understanding how to relax yourself it's
understanding how to relax the muscles the positioning of your body and how
tense you need to be in order to get it to move properly quickly and efficiently
in order to do this and study this we have to understand this by practicing
the relaxation when we're punching and jabbing actually to see if we can cause
ourselves to become faster or see what's inhibiting us from doing it by studying
the different antistick and antagonistic muscles that there are out there along
with the biomechanics of understanding relaxation then you have to get into
understanding your stances mobility and positioning of your feet and your knees
when you're doing this your constant shifting in stances of how you start and
end and in between getting the technique to where you need it as we stated in the
previous video you need to maintain your position at all times so I'll be at when
you're trying to transition from your movements into a stance to deliver the
punch you really need to concentrate on the biomechanics of what's happening one
has to stay over the base of the foot or the toe especially in order to deliver
it and maintain balance and good correct power to be delivered to the punch as
you can see here I've got my elbow resting almost just against my body
there in the rear this is to promote having the fist a little forward and
make it closer to the opponent the other hand is out just slightly away from my
body giving me a little bit of distance but protecting my ribs at the same time
both of these fists are constantly pointing towards the target now as you
can see we don't necessarily have to hit the target were at but in understanding
how we can trace and follow through and our tactics and strategy is important
that we keep all our weapons including our feet pointing towards our target
hence the hands and feet have to work together and at half the point towards
where you're intending to go the same way with that front hand even though
that front hand is out there you're going to either jab block parry whatever
you need to do with it but it has to be ready to do these positions and not off
in some general direction that you don't need now mind you there are some people
out there who will actually deliver the punch from the front stance or the front
hand but in this case we are talking about rear and rear crosses don't forget
that make sure when that front hand is up there there's no openings or
positions that a person can get under or into the ribs can easily be exposed if
your hand or and elbow are too far away from your body from that starting
position sometimes that sounds simple but you might need a second pair of eyes
to help you even realize what you're doing wrong or missing also great big
mirrors they help a lot I use mirrors all the time when I don't have a second
set of eyes helping me understand different techniques these will help you
correct the flaws and your biomechanics and give you a better feeling and
understanding in some cases just take a video of yourself to make sure
everything's working the way you expect now always remember your hips before you
punch should always be between 45 and 60 degrees there's nobody sitting there
with a tape measure telling you how far it's all dependent on your body type
first of all you have to be very careful of any demonstrative actions of going
backwards that might Telegraph the techniques coming in so when you're
training your hips of that 45 to 60 degree position
they should never move backwards right before you do a technique unless you're
doing some sort of tactic with the front hand trying to do a feint or otherwise
to draw somebody in but that's for a different video another day now after
doing your faints or preparatory attacks when you're using the punch it should at
least come to a 90-degree angle on the stop that way you can transfer your
power and force more efficiently into the target now remember if you're doing
a cross you might go past the 90 because you're driving the power around past 90
and through of course depending on what type of punch will person's trying to do
must make sure you're hitting with the proper area of your knuckles for most
punches you should hit with these two knuckles right in here as they're coming
in now if you're doing a half punch and you want to go to the diaphragm you may
be able to come in here and force the power up but most of your punches since
they're going down at a 45 degree angle will give you better penetration as long
as you're reaching the center of your body or a downward angle of that punch
the next thing you have to understand is you have to focus your punch one to
three inches into the intended target you're trying to hit if you go too far
past the target you will start to lose power by pushing instead of hitting the
opponent and this will cause a general loss of power in trying to do that punch
depending on the type of punch we're using the hips will go around again like
to set to the ninety degree or past if you're doing a cross this will allow and
help you to focus your punch on the target so that you can have a little bit
of time on contact to transfer that power so basically let's go over these
derive scientific actions that are taking place first the thrust is coming
from the ground which is then penetrating into a hip which is coming
around with the centrifugal motion as these hips torque this will also then
push the knee forward giving you a forward momentum and with gravity
pulling you an actual bit of a little drop to help you use gravity to add in
to the power then as the punch launches from the hips like a catapult remember
the hips are launching not the fist the abdomens then come to contract as the
contact of the fist hits the body at that exact instant when you can get all
of those pieces to work together the efficiency of your power will be much
higher in respect to only doing a few things if you're just swinging your arm
you're going to hit it with whatever your arm weighs but the total body
action needs to be understood in order to better
those punches both scientifically and realistically now in completely
understanding this speed and maths you come into play also so you have to be
aware there's a lot of forces in motion here to bring your punch to its
conclusion the time on contact is not like posing or anything like that so
when you hit your target it's there for a hundredth of a second at the most and
then is immediately retracted and the second technique is follow through where
you move out of the way or move to whatever strategic or tactical
positioning you're trying to accomplish now let's look over a few comments that
we need to think about when we're doing a punch this is very little to do with a
scientific study mind you but to better understand the basic principles of how
to defend yourself or use that technique when you need to first thing you need to
remember when you're using your rear hand as an attack you need to make sure
your lead or front hand is out in front of you either to parry set up your
tactics or do whatever is necessary to protect the body or help in applying the
technique that you're trying to accomplish
the footwork has to always be maintained mobility factors understanding that
you're not changing your proof of stance to Telegraph this has to be very much
ingrained in your practice as you train understanding each of the angles that
you're going to apply how the hands and feet positions are compared to a the
opposite person's stance there's a lot that goes into understanding how an
effective punch can be used as was stated earlier make sure you're
retracting that punch fast enough so nobody grapples or traps it or whatever
and that it also allows you to help prepare in case you need to attack with
that hand again always remember your strategy and tactics should have a way
of being able to add or prepare yourself for an oncoming attack of the opponent
either by thrusting yourself backwards going at an angle or or maybe moving in
for grappling on your own so it's just dependent on the tactics and strategy
and make sure you apply them to what you're trying to accomplish with your
punch now note again you don't have to use a fist in this kind of an action you
can use your heel of palm you can use a leopards paw you can use open hand of
Sciuto there are many different ways you can use this same action and you should
test them to make sure they might apply better to certain strategies you're
accomplishing it whether you're fighting hand-to-hand or somebody has a weapon
against you I know this is common since but to some people there's a lot
of change in actions and so they need to study the cases in the different ways
that might need to be used with those kinds of cross and punch actions that
are taking place there's a lot more we can note on this but remember you have
to eventually study and apply these notes to yourself and find your own
comments and things that you need to know or remember in understanding or
training someone how to use a punch actually make sure you get a partner and
work with them so you actually see that your punches are working or being able
to find openings that you might use these punching with go ahead and use the
tap system I'll leave a link up here for you to try to go look at it and see how
I would implore you to take your partner and work with them to see if your
techniques really work they'll be more coming out eventually on the tap system
I want to do a lot more on it but I want to make sure everybody has to face ideas
down let's get to the third category and the last category with it's it's
important ideas basically what are the common errors that we find when we're
doing this type of punching a lot of people who are in classical styles tend
to make the mistake of pulling their lead hand back when they're punching
maybe to their hips or waist or close to their body which allows opponents to
easily trap or control them although it's important for basics and kata you
have to train when you're free sparring at keeping those hands forward in case
they needed to be employed for other reasons it's unconventional for
self-defense for you to pull your fist back keep it forward and one note to
make when you're using a basic position make sure you're not going into a deep
classical stance in real self-defense situations it's almost impossible to
move properly when you're standing like that
also unless the other people know that you've had some sort of training and
they'll probably employ some other type of tactic to throw you off that's not to
say that these training exercises aren't good for strengthening muscles you have
to consider the reality of it when you need to use it but you do need to have a
good basic position to keep from being swept or taken down or to help deliver
techniques correctly such as the reverse punch we've been talking about here it's
always a good idea to study boxers other martial artists see how they handle them
and take good note because there's a lot of different ways to keep that phasic
position and mobility so you have to take a lot of this into consideration
nobody is the same in what they can do on that without a good basic stance you
can't do that proper torque you need make sure
torquing power is coming from your waist when you're bringing those punches in a
lot of people try to use just the upper body and doing it and forget about the
whole lower body action that actually provides more power than the weight of
the body just torquing the upper body needs to also be in play when you're
using the lower body but you need to try to get that total body action into the
punch to help deliver better power one last thing I want to cover is make sure
when you're punching you keep your stomach slightly tense and when you
connect make it tenser you never know when an opponent's going to hit you in
the stomach at the same time you're punching it doesn't matter whether
they're punching or throwing a technique you have to make sure your abdomen is
ready for any kind of impact that might be thrown at it it really will help you
to withstand more attacks and punches if you're not able to block or actually
catch them remember keep your hands up to protect your ribs a lot of people
keep their hands out and not realize a good roundhouse kick to the ribs or a
front kick to the ribs with hands extended out will easily take you out
without much thought it's important that you do these to keep your internal
organs as safe as possible now in this lecture there's a lot of things that
could have gone further that it did not include but to me you need to have at
least these basics down to understand principles necessary for you to study
your own techniques make sure you set out a regimen of what you're trying to
study to better facilitate any ideas or common errors that might cause problems
we are trying to actually apply these techniques in a fight I hope this helps
you a little bit in creating your own personal studies for your techniques and
maybe you'll get a view a good direction to start in the future we plan to do
some on kicking and other techniques that are used throughout martial arts
systems that weren't readily in here every technique has its own unique
abilities and ways you can facilitate it so you need to make sure how a lot of
these techniques are compared to buy a punch now if you like this video share
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and hopefully you'll be able to apply these to what you're trying to
accomplish in your system leave any other questions or comments you might
have down there at the bottom and don't forget the question of the day what is
your favorite type of punch to use in a self-defense situation again thanks and
we'll see you again here at Shihan's Dojo
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