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Originally posted by Tom Yum
crazyjoe, you've done your homework. I think alot of things can be said of many arts - watching for instructors who never demonstrate etc. For closed hand strikes, I would rather use boxing. The right cross is more powerful than the reverse punch and recovers faster. When I first started boxing, my coach could tell that I was formerly TKD/karate based. The right cross explodes and once it penetrates its target its brought back to your cheek in a quick yet relaxed fashion. The reverse punch, comes out with a lot of power, with the other hand pulled to the waist for additional power, but leaves your entire left side exposed. THis is bad if someone hits you at the same time. The open hand strikes of karate seem to be good for striking vital areas.
I agree with the last post that says karate weighs heavily on power rather than speed/fluidity. Joe Lewis (the kickboxer) fought a traditional karate guy in the 70's and used boxing tactics, with karate kicks to knock the karate guy out. This match had the same effect on traditional martial arts at that time as Royce Gracie had in the eary 90's. The traditional karate guys were stunned because they believed that they could take out anyone from their years of training and here comes's this guy with four basic punches and a few kicks who devistates their champ.
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As I stated before the retracting of the other arm to the hip should only be done in basics the power it is suppose to generate is actually generated by the hips, when you advance in the art, you don't need the retracting arm to be able to use your hips properly
I even consider it a nono to swing one arm (arm on kickingside)
to the back during a roundhouse kick which a lot of martial artist tend to do
As far as power goes, Wado, the style I do only uses power the last moment of the techniques so for the reverse punch that is a few inches from the target( we also turn our fist at the last moment)
the most famous technique is a jablike punch combined with an evasion nagashi zuki
But Wado might not be representative because it was the first real Japanese style(Shotokan is okinawan style that was japanized) and the first to combine japanese ju jitsu and okinawan karate
therefore we also have grabling and takedowns