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This Korean Karate trick is one of the most powerful tricks you will ever find. As simple as it is, it requires perfect and exact timing, and a number of little bits and pieces I’m about to tell you about. Understanding these little points, and drilling the thing a bit, and you are going to have one of the most powerful tools in your martial arts arsenal.

I discovered the technique in the form Pinan Five, it happens right after you execute a crescent kick and low block. You are now standing in a horse stance, and you swing the right arm to cover the left side of the body with a weird, fingers pointed palm block. You then execute a left punch to the left, and that is your power punch.

You can do this move exactly as it is in the form, and it will work with plenty of power. But there are ways to adjust it to make even more power, and to make it even more functional. And we want more functional, because we want to understand this technique so well that we can use it in street situations.

Have your partner stand in front of you, handshake apart. Have him step forward with his right leg and punch to your face with his right hand. You step back with your left foot into a back stance as you do a palm block with your left hand, this causes your partner’s right hand to pass in front of you, and this sets up his body for the counterpunch.

To counter, turn the hips and feet into a horse stance as you execute a right punch to his body. Now, this has got to be snappy, and you have to sink your weight and snap those hips, and you are going to find that this technique, if executed correctly, is going to smash his ribs to splinters. In addition, if you happen to go precise, and this will happen naturally over time, you can stick your fingers into his armpit.

The point that must be remembered is that you must have perfect CBM, Coordinated Body Motion. This means that all parts of the body move at the same time and in harmony. Thus, you strike with a couple of hundred pounds of body weight (assuming you weigh a couple of hundred pounds), and not twenty pounds of arm weight.

In addition, you must set the stance at the exact and correct distance so that your arm is nearly straightened out, only has a couple of inches to extend, when you make contact. If you decide to use the fingers, go slower, and add fingertip push ups to your work outs. If you decide to go deep, you can set your legs so that your punched out arm can sweep him over your horse.

I always found this to be an intoxicating trick, quick and easy, and I love the feeling of moving in quick and light and then dropped the deep power into the last snap of the fist. The damage to that mugger is going to be wonderful, and it is very usable on the street, and can be adjusted or modified as one needs. The official monicker for this trick, in my system, which is a slight modification of Korean Karate, is The Power Punch, hope you like it.

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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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

When you practice doing your art with no weight, your body is still going to weigh the same, and then some, when impacted upon an opponent. Taking your mind away from considering weight doesn’t mean that the weight isn’t there. Actually, it is even more there, because when you think weightless, and move weightless, you move faster, and he will anticipate accordingly.

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One of my favorite books is Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugene Herrigel. In this book, Mr, Herrigel goes to Japan in search of zen enlightenment. He is guided into the practice of archery in this seeking.

The reason he is guided into archery is because, according to the people who teach zen, zen is too difficult for a westerner. Not being of the Japanese culture, it would be to difficult for him to understand the concepts. Through the practice of archery, however, he might be able to make some headway with zen concepts.

Mr. Herrigel practices archery diligently. He stands with a tall bow, calms himself, and experiences nothing but frustration. Heck, he can’t even hit the target, let alone find his own soul.

The sensei, understanding his frustration, takes pity, and invites him over to his house for some personal instruction. The teacher is a font of wisdom and zen, but Mr. Herrigel, is still ensconced in his frustration. The sensei, realizing drastic measures are called for, takes Mr. Herrigel out to his personal archery range.

They stand on a range that is about a hundred feet, and the teacher instructs Mr. Herrigel to light a candle between the firing line and the target. The candle lit, Mr. Herrigel is instructed to turn off the lights. In the deep darkness, with only a single candle glowing fifty feet away, the teacher fires an arrow and puts out the candle.

Mr. Herrigel, standing in darkness, is astonished. Never has he seen such a magnificent display of archery, to put out a candle at fifty feet! Good Lord!

The teacher merely says to turn on the lights, and then has Mr. Herrigel retrieve his arrow. Mr. Herrigel runs down to the end of the range to look for the arrow. He finds it…in the center of the target.

To put out a candle and hit a target, using only the light of the candle. To master a martial art and plumb the depths of soul. To find the brilliance of yourself on a darkened night, this is zen, and this is what is at the heart of the Martial Arts.

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