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Old 06-24-2014, 06:14 AM   #38
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Re: Introduction + The missing Atemi

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Arno Hist wrote: View Post
Take an average woman or lightweight man and have them strike a big person and let's see how the atemi influences them.
Do you really think that a small person will have no "influence" on a big person if they strike them? Perhaps that's true if you believe that the mechanics of "striking" involve trying to move someone's entire body mass. I can't say that I ever experienced this approach to "striking" when I studied striking arts. Looking at "striking" another way, I think you will find that if a strike is directed at someone's jaw, their entire body mass will move itself in a most gratifyingly rapid and conclusive manner -- even if the person applying that strike is smaller.
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