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Robin Johnson wrote:
For me, the unbendable arm forms a useful arch that when properly aligned into your shoulder will vector forces across the shoulders and out your other unbendable arm or down the back into the back foot or wrapping around the torso/hips into the front foot. This captures considerable force that can be either grounded disrupting the attacker or redirected back at the attacker through the other arm. It is not magic and is ultimately limited by the strength of the shoulder - like everything  |
I agree in a sense with the idea of an arch, however I don't see it as connected to or limited by shoulder strength (unless we are defining "shoulder" differently, which is possible); I have had no problem functionally maintaining unbendable arms with acute and chronic shoulder injury and a post-surgery rehab phase because the shoulder should not be engaged at all....to me a proper unbendable arm from a structural/anatomical point of view is buoyed from underneath by the latissimus dorsi and triceps.