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I prefer the "spend hours and hours each day drilling the bodies various tools through rigorous workouts, drills, bagwork and finally full contact sparring untill you drop" method.

Damnit, why are the beds in the spare rooms so sucky? I need back up chicks stare

it's a viable technique and doctors will tell you that it can trick the body. it's the same concept of reversing direction. a jointlock forcing someone to go one way, then turning sharply the body keeps going and the joint breaks. ju jitsu has the rule that if you have 1 finger you can go down if you have 2 or more then you should go in the opposite direction so when they resist, and even if it's not conscious they will resist, then you turn the direction around to the other way and now your technique and their muscles are working together to break the joint. now just do a tiny little twitch back and forth, in inches yes, the smaller the better, think millimeters. the persons body will give in the direction you are going or break, then you go back the other way. the brain gets confused signals, left, right, left, up, down, up, left, ending with the body unable to determine the muscles to use to resist. the resulting technique needs less energy to break a joint, i don't care if you call it bull, but it works for me, i was just wondering if any others out there had heard or used it. and yes, even if it is bull, it's worth mastering for sexjutsu

blaugh Poor Jass, didn't get to practice grappling wink

well the jujutsu i've been in used the principle. maybe it was overlapped with chinese quin'na, but i doubt it seeing as i don't think i've met anyone that practiced chinese quin'na.

Do you mind opening a thread to discuss that more in depth or would I be talking to myself if I did? ><

Theres too many misconceptions about power punching.

For me a power punch is when somebody uses what's called a "double hip" motion in order to use the bodies full potential to generate power. It's all about body mechanics.

Yeah, the best way I can decribe the motion (as i'm having a mild brain fart today) is if you remember the film Karate Kid 2 where that Japanese chick was using that toy drum thing and rotating it. Imagine the string on the sides with the balls attached as your arms.

The first arm is completely loose and as the hips rotate in one direction you allow the first arm to move with you bodies momentum. When it goes as far forward as it can without muscular intervention your hips change direction and the opposite arm whips forward into a punch.

It's very similar to what boxers use when they use a Jab to c**k the hip and then turn in with a cross with the opposite hand as a power punch.

Peter Consterdine of the BCA (British Combat Association) is a master of this technique and has used it to take out guys on the door with ease. He's released a video called 'Power Punch' which goes into the body mechanics side of it and demonstrates it on his students (while they're holding 6 inch, high density foam pads) and launching them across the room. Highly reccomended if you're into the subject.