Re: The Chambered Fist

Badger North <young_forest@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Jan 22, 8:48 am, "Herbert Cannon" <hcanno...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Grasshoppers, I have studied the ancient texts and what I found out was
that: " an empty fist is never chambered." Which means that move is meant to
be a grab that off balances an opponent. Now that makes sense.
But why not teach the grab part of it in katas with an open and closing
hand? Is that to fool us round eyes and keep the ancient secrets of the
temple from us evil ones?

The chambered fist is nothing to do with grabbing or technique as
such. What happens is that in going from an arm outstretched position to
a arm drawn-back position, the shoulder/hip relationship is changed and
the body compressed by the shoulder action pressing the spine downwards
(this stress is absorbed by the relaxed coiling of the meat in the legs,
through the hip from the lower back).

These mechanics, regardless of what one does with the hand, are what is
being practiced, and using the arm pulled back forces more
compression. It is not actually pulling back with the arms/elbows that
does anything (focussing on any kind of pull is not the point), but the
the effort required to keep the body upright while the shoulders/hips
take on a new relationship---the arms will tend to want to rise or
extend, so the training is to get the inner meaty parts of the body
(lower back, hips, legs) to move like a suspension coil while the
skeletal structure does not get disturbed.

Sinking down, and/or keeping the feet close together, increases the
difficulty (meaty parts need to twist/stretch/compress over much shorter
distances, i.e., more), and improves the body.

The compression, expansion is used to do "technique", or "transmit"
energy, regardless of what that might mean. Certainly, the image of a
shoulder- or hip-powered punch from a chambered position by virtue of a
pull-back is just plain wrong.

HTH,
Gernot
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