Student Questions & Answers

  • Empty hands

  • Law of the fist

    1. Prefix

    2. Suffix

    3. Insert

    4. Rearrange

    5. Alter

    6. Adjust

    7. Regulate

    8. Delete

    1. Back up mass

    2. Marriage of gravity

    3. Rotational torque

  • Height, Width, Depth

  • Height: Marriage of gravity
    Width: Rotational torque
    Depth: Back up mass

  • Dead: grab, choke and gun
    Semi-alive: pushes
    Alive: kicks, punches, kicks, clubs

    1. Horse

    2. Attention

    3. Left/Right neutral bow

    1. Upward

    2. Downward

    3. Inward

    4. Outward

    1. Elbow

    2. Dragon over the Tiger

  • Different methods of striking with our fingertips

  • To feel the rotation of our body

  • Okinawa, Japan, China, Hawaii

  • Get more power, depth of penetration, rotational torque, marriage of gravity, back up mass, bracing angle

  • Mental, Physical, Perceptual 

    We get rid of mental, because we shouldn’t have to think

  • More power, elbow strike back “in case there is a person behind you”

    1. Bend your knee,

    2. Snap it out,

    3. Bring it back down. Ball of the foot lines up with angle, knee, hip

  • Long-legs, medium-hands/arms, short-elbows/knees

  • 3 punches
    vertical, front, back

    1. Out of contact

    2. Within contact

    3. Contact penetration

    4. Contact Manipulation, and within this is “control manipulation, sub-level 4”

  • Dragon means wisdom and knowledge. Tiger means power and strength. The dragon goes first because it thinks before it acts.

  • A. feathers: hair
    B. leaves: fingers
    C. twigs: arms
    D. branches: legs
    E. storm: club
    F. rod: gun
    G. lance: knife
    H. hoof: feet
    I. wing: elbow
    K. kimono: lapel

  • 50/50

  • 60/40

  • 40/60

  • 50/50

  • 10/90