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“Though a person may fully chamber a strike and hit the heavy bag or air-shield in training with good force under the stress of the fight scenario’s with the armored (bullet-man) assailants attacking, many people tend to go too fast. That is, they are throwing every technique they know as fast as they can but they carry no power or real impact. That is because they are moving too fast to chamber and deliver the blow properly.” - Peyton Quinn, Book of Five Rings: Explained in Plain English

Comment: I wondered about this and considered that such training that performs techniques with greater than economical motion, i.e., like fully chambering a fist to strike vertically from the waist, would help compensate for the adrenal rush when apply techniques in the fight. It has also been suggested as a effect of the rush that folks tend to speed up the application of strikes, etc., delivery resulting is a huge loss of power and force ergo if that happens from a trained position such as the waist that the speed up and shortened chambering might actually benefit. It is also suggested that performing strikes, etc. in a slow motion, like tai chi, model would also benefit. This warrants further study. The idea is to apply the principles of physiokinetics and technique(s) optimally for the greatest applied force and power.