Striking With Elasticity

[@pranakhan]

This is also a principle behind Fajing. Great explanation. I remember seeing a parkour jump video last year, where the artist jumped off a 2 story railway & kind of "bounced" into his graceful landing. I watched it a dozen times, trying to understand the movement. What you're explaining is the essence of it. Thanks for sharing

[@Combatprofessor]

Exactly right. We also use that term in the Asian arts I teach. Too often people associate it with something esoteric or mystical but it is 100 percent biomechanical. Thanks for watching.

[@joennejordbaer]

Good explanation about the fysiology and how to train and feel it.

[@truthserum9456]

Great instruction. I learned something very valuable here. Thank you

[@Combatprofessor]

Peter 117 b I’m glad. Thanks for watching.

[@robscott351]

Really great breakdown! Very informative, Thanks!!! 🙂

[@Combatprofessor]

Thanks for watching.

[@truthserum9456]

Great Great stuff as usual

[@Combatprofessor]

Thanks for watching.

[@nathancragg6202]

You and Cal Dietz need to have your kids do a summer exchange and in 10-15 years, pure animals that can combine the martial arts and performance training to a world class level

[@Combatprofessor]

Lol

[@edi9892]

And, again, learned something new... I only knew that the body resists giving 100% no matter if it´s stretch, endurance or strength. This brings me to some finding that keeps vexing me: how does the body know what is safe for you? In my case, I did sport for near 20 years now and despite all my stretching, I never really managed to do as much as even sit on the floor with my legs outstretched. Unlike other stretches, my body simply refuses to obey me and thus, when I try to sit like this, my center of gravity is behind my butt and I´ll fall back. When I realized that it´s not an anatomical problem, but my body considers this natural position as unsafe, I tried to get it used to it by sitting in a chair with my back fixed in an upright position and slowly increase the angle of my legs until they are at the same hight as my butt. I did over weeks and every day I saw improvements, where I never saw any success before! However, as soon as I was happily putting my palms on the floor with my legs still outstretched, on that day I walked and moved my upper body a little to evade an obstacle. I immediately had back pain and a cramp like I never felt before. After I recovered, I was exactly at the same mobility as I used to be for so many years! I managed to get my body to trust me that I can sit on the floor without overstretching my body, but anything beyond that brings me at risk of going through the same instability and I still haven´t figured out what even causes it.

[@Combatprofessor]

That's a common problem. You are approaching it correctly. The next thing is to slowly move up to gentle dynamic motions like the twisting I'm showing here. The body needs to transfer that trust to motion next.

[@Hannibhaal777]

Any books for this

[@Combatprofessor]

If your research stored elastic capacity there are a lot of academic articles freely available

[@boxingforselfdefence7620]

Love the science that explains the dumb instincts the rest of us mortals can't articulate. I've taken to calling this catapult punching but have not I had a way to understand and explain it properly.

[@Combatprofessor]

That's a great name. I use sling shot. Your weapon is bigger lol.

[@boxingforselfdefence7620]

@@Combatprofessor Joe Louis and Ali's right hands were classic elastic