K Y O S H I ' S Destructive Power The technique is the single atemi-waza breaking technique,concentrated destructive power. The technique varies according to the strengths or weaknesses of the individual. It may be a punch or it may be a technique from any of the kata. We hone and develop all the techniques in our training. We employ only one at any given moment. At a demonstration we break with our favorite technique, only one brick (or one stack) at a time. In the kata or in a life/death situation we win with one strike. We donot, as in a boxing match, employ jabs, have a strategy to endure rounds, with rules, referees, judges and time outs. We do not as in baseball, go for a bunt or a sacrifice hit to move a player forward on base. We go for boxing's knock-out punch or baseball's homerun in every life/death situation. We prepare for that one atemi-waza attitude in every move of every kata and in every training session. In practice we execute full committment to the move at hand. We develop our own favorite technique according to our body types, attributes and developed skill. We become home run hitters, just as every athlete in every endeavor develops the individualized knock-out punch or particular winning skill. This applies even more so in karate. In training we avoid combinations. We rarely practice combinations of two techniques and even more rarely triple combinations and never more than three technique combinations. We predominantly practice one move at a time. Even in a double technique, each technique is executed to win.This is most effectively developed with one technique practice while incorporating proper principals of movement. Arigato, Kyoshi Robert Scaglione. |