HOW TO STRIKE WITH MAXIMUM POWER - Training with Michael J White

Well, simply put, the strongest blow that the body can generate is a reverse blow that we call in karate either straight right or straight left depending on whether you are orthodox or left-handed in boxing. Well, some may argue about hook after hook even though it is a very strong punch. effective punch and it's very strong because it clicks the jaw and you know, shakes the head and you know that producing knockouts is nowhere near the strength that can be derived from the core of our body, okay, that reverse punch that twists your body , turn your body. this the blow is at the end of my shoulder and hip turn, okay, generate it from the floor to my hips, towards the target, towards the target, this way, okay, the fastest movement looks like this, it is possible that you can hear it, so that's what you want to practice. but let's incorporate some basic movements before the first part of punching correctly begins with the basic punch.

Now many people may not have learned the correct way to make a fist and first I will share some history with you. all you have to do is curl your fingers up to where you can't see your nails and now this is very important wrap the thumb this is where we wrap our thumb now there is a mechanic for this thumb although it seems harmless but it is the first way to enter Okinawa Tay In the beginning of karate, the fist was this way, the important thing about this is that when stabilizing the wrist using there is a muscle called flexor pollicis longus that is activated.

If you've seen my forearm, it locks the supporting tendons and muscles that stabilizing the wrist is very important because you don't do this, your wrist has no support, that's why many people have to wrap their wrist because they don't learn to make a fist properly and if You see you never go back three. Sort of delving into that a little bit, why do you wrap your hands in boxing in an MMA so you don't wear out your wrist or break your hands exactly? That's because you don't know how to punch, you don't know how to punch without hurting yourself or your opponent hurt yourself new guys flash in martial arts your hands your feet your elbows your knees even your head were used as weapons and we are trained like such we understand that hitting is about perfecting the technique result

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minimum effort I will return to this, but now it went from here to block that risk block the support of the mechanisms to secure the wrist of the whip to the pressure here, so the pressure here my pressure here there's a lot on my list well we've changed that to pressure that does the same thing without that pressure you're not stabilized so that's rule number one okay rule 2 okay like I mentioned the arrow , okay, you want this to be straight, okay, your bone, you should take any hit, you should have your elbow and your two knuckles. these two knuckles travel the same path, okay, if you think about punching in a swimming pool, if I drag my elbow like this and start doing this again, it will drag my elbow to the right and two knuckles should follow the same pattern they've been on a hook it's still the same pattern like I said that arrow okay hooks same pattern same pattern it goes here it's going up but it's in dissection it travels the same a lot of people may not know I was a former track athlete.

I did decathlon in ten events. and one event I did was called the shot put, a lot of people have seen it these days, where you throw this heavy ball the longest distance possible. Well, I went to college based on this, it's one of the first things you know I was. Knowing this, I began to apply my knowledge, technique and physics behind the shot put to my hitting

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. There was something called the impact challenge in the national karate tournaments, just where there was a device, the bag that you hit and it records how hard. You hit it to pay your entry fee and register.

You know you can register. How many times do you want to try to get the highest hit you can? We have pounds per square inch. Well, the first competition I ended up winning. and then the winner gets the bag, so I took it home and you know, I started obsessing about breaking my own record, so I brought it to class and you know, and then I would do all these different experiments with proper technique. now sometimes. I have to explain that

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effort does not mean maximum effect. Well, what you want is maximum effect, minimum effort, so use your body appropriately for the proper technique.

When we look at any high-level athlete, it seems like it's them. You don't make an effort, you know that he is a mate and you know everything. A great golf swing. A great bat swing seems effortless. That's because the mechanics are there. A lot of times when people hit a bag, they do all this stuff and you feel like I'm making the effort, but a lot of times that effort dissipates. Think of an egg thrown into this bag. It will just splash. Energy moves this way. I can hit a bag like that. It makes a lot of noise, but that energy simply spreads through the epidermis. from the bag what we want is penetration, okay, we want to penetrate our target many times, that doesn't look very impressive or make much noise, like a boxer throws that short punch, that short punch, yeah, that's the walk down the road body. that comes from proper mechanics and that's what I'm trying to teach so one of the things that I liked when I won the impact challenge after the first one I took it home and kept breaking my local record and so on everyone else . impact challenge I entered, I love you all.

I had to agree to be late or record my punches late so everyone could spend their money and I could, you know, record a punch and a kick and then take the thing home so it taught me a lot and that's one of those things that I don't I would have brought it. I would carry the bag to class and women with very good technique are hitting better than the bodybuilders who put all this effort in there that it just all dissipated. Well, this is another reason to educate yourself on how to hit correctly and strengthen your supporting muscles and joints so that you can deal with the force that your body is exerting correctly.

That's very important because you can get hurt if you don't. I don't know how to do that now, if you need to wrap your hands, do it if you see that you never go back three. There's a little part where I talk about wrapping your hands because a lot of people don't learn how to hit correctly. I've never had to wrap my hands a day and I've never been at risk of any kind of hand injury or getting hit and I've been hitting my whole life, so again those things that I've talked about learning the proper fist, learning how to make your forearm secure the rest of your punch is very important, take your time, anything loud at first we hit again like the arrow, we want our punch to travel with our elbow and both knuckles. the same path, okay, our punches should be at the end of our rotation, okay, a lot of people will hit like that, so it's not about using my hip and the ground that I wanted in my crack shot, that slow, look my elbow In my fist it goes in the same direction, now there are big differences.

I want to bring my elbow, not here, but here, enclose it in my body. There's something you may have seen in a lot of my martial arts. You saw Bruce Lee do this. You see? he does that, this is a very important aspect of traditional martial arts, sorry, I can do it too well, starting from the

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crane back then, but blocking this, my arm, my whole arm starts from here to here, no From here, this can be resisted, this is not almost as strong, it is that now my body is enclosed in this very similar to a crane, not this type of crane, but a crane that lifts tall and heavy objects, there is a counterweight, okay , there is a counterweight that roots that crane in the ground, not here if it is a crane.

I had to lift something heavy, here it comes, it has to be here, have someone resist your arm, this is to go to practice, where you notice here, so now my punch starts from here to here, not just here, okay , that's another little fact, see? Bruce Lee doing that, that's what it's all about, so I want to turn and my hit is at the end of my turn, wow, these mechanics, everything should have a half turn, okay, another reason not to start, stop here because I'm open. Open up, okay, I hit like this. I am open.

You can see where you can hit. I'm here. You can barely. My jaw is protected by my shoulder and I have used my hip turn. That's the

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. That's where the power comes from. Look. In any baseball player, what is that? That's where the power of hip rotation comes from. Golf, hip rotation. Hitting the hip rotation as if it were the shot put. If I extended my arm this way, my shot would land about two feet from my best level. that's one aspect now here's another one it's a very low budget and simple way to practice proper technique this is just a hanger okay I just made a loop because what I want you to do is know how to hit with a straight arm and straight and Coming straight back, that technique is very important that everyone travels in a straight line because what happens when we do things quickly, our elbows will widen and this will make it impossible to go in a straight line.

I would have to do this right, but with my gun straight as an arrow. You should hit straight, that arrow goes in and up this