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Old 05-18-2010, 03:27 PM   #19
ChrisMoses
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Re: So I started the solo exercises...

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Dan Harden wrote: View Post
Maybe another mental picture is that of force not so much being absorbed at that "point of impact," but rather being spread out and absorbed over and particially through a trained surface.
Interesting Dan, and thanks for the very useful thread btw. I was noticing just in the last year or so that instead of it feeling like I was able to run pressure into the ground through the bones (say when resisting in pushout) it started to feel more like I was wrapping the incoming pressure around myself through the skin and then it kind of just went around me. Kind of like when the input coming in my right side collided with the input coming in my left side they just nulled each other out across my back. Hard to explain, but I've been told it does feel different to those folks pushing.

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