You would have to come to the DC area. Wrong coast, I know....
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You would have to come to the DC area. Wrong coast, I know....
Look at the internal videos critically, and you will notice differences. Now if you want to construe those videos as having overly compliant partners in terms of how their bodies are effected, that...
Perhaps a good way to advance this convesation is to find video which shows the effect on the body when someone is struck with an internal type strike and a similiar strike done by someone...
As an engineer I am quite familiar with the concepts you are referring too. If you are familiar with statics then you well know about how forces are distributed and how there are push back effects...
The internal strikes I have felt, feel heavier, the reason being is how much weight is actually going into the punch.
This doesn't mean leaning more into the punch, thats what I always thought...
Thats pretty different from my own experience. About 6 weeks ago I went to a sanda seminar with freesparring and the difference between internal strikes and external strikes was extermely different....
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Most schools affiliated with the All US Kendo federation are good, check out the texas section and find one with iaido or kendo.
If you feel, that it is not proper to discuss it in physical/technical terms in this thread, why not open a new thread in a different section of the board in order to specifically address the issue?...
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