Gyaku zuki Training Exercises Video Shotokan karate's Reverse Punch
Submitted by Linden on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 15:49.
A basic gyaku zuki starts from the back leg, if you are punching with the right arm, drive the right leg, back and into the floor, transferring the driving force through the back leg, to the hip.
The hip then teams up with the back leg and they both drive the right side of the body around and forward.
You should also use the right side of the body to push and the left side of the body to pull.
Just before the rotation completes, the left arm (hikite), starts to pull back and the right arm starts to execute the punch.
Everything should stop at the same time, as the punch completes, kime (focus) the mind and body on the point of contact. The whole body focuses for a split second, the obvious muscles to tighten are the arm and stomach muscles, but more important are the tightening of the muscles, thigh, inner thigh, back of the thigh and gluteus maximus (buttocks), because without these being strong the reverse punch will be weak.
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A basic gyaku zuki starts from the back leg, if you are punching with the right arm, drive the right leg, back and into the floor, transferring the driving force through the back leg, to the hip.
The hip then teams up with the back leg and they both drive the right side of the body around and forward.
You should also use the right side of the body to push and the left side of the body to pull.
Just before the rotation completes, the left arm (hikite), starts to pull back and the right arm starts to execute the punch.
Everything should stop at the same time, as the punch completes, kime (focus) the mind and body on the point of contact. The whole body focuses for a split second, the obvious muscles to tighten are the arm and stomach muscles, but more important are the tightening of the muscles, thigh, inner thigh, back of the thigh and gluteus maximus (buttocks), because without these being strong the reverse punch will be weak.
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Posted in Kihon | Training Drills Submitted by Linden on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 15:49.
Posted in Kihon | Training Drills Submitted by Linden on Fri, 02/05/2008 - 15:49.
Hello, this is my first participation in this wonderful forum. My name is a Ra'id, a university physics lecturer, I have a black belt 1-st dan in karate. I would like to add an important exercise to strengthen the fulcrum of ligs mussles which is the stand for a period of time in Ziktsu and Kukitsu dache, this may strengthen the fulcrum and help to correct the wrong stand especially for the beginners. I hope from the sini to help me by his comments about this comment
Hi Ra'id,
Welcome to shotokan unleashed!
Yes, standing in zenkutsu-dachi and kokutsu-dachi correctly, for a period of time will certainly encourage stability and strength in shotokan's karate stances.
For lower grade karate-ka, I would suggest checking the stance posture with their sensei, when they give the all clear, standing for any length of time in a given stance, is an excellent training method and one you can do almost anywhere.
ossu
Linden
PS Thanks for posting Ra'id, sorry I didn't reply sooner.