My hand break was so painless that I didn't realize it was broken for a month. When the break occurred there was a brief flash of pain that quickly went away when I shook it out, and it wasn't the worst pain I'd ever had. Not ever having broken a bone before, I did not recognize at that point that it was broken. It probably helped that I was a teen at the time. So for a month I was doing things like push-ups, pull-ups, punching, etc with a broken hand and not even knowing it. Then one day I decided that the hand did not look right, one knuckle was lower than the rest. So I had it x-rayed, and sure enough it had been a clean break. Having been a month, it had started healing but at an off-angle (hence the lower knuckle), so the doctor had to rebreak it before setting it. All in all, in spite of it being relatively painless, not something I'd like to repeat.Willy wrote: Most times you don’t even feel the pain or swelling until things have been concluded. So a broken hand should not stop you from continuing to defend yourself. It will however bite you in the ass later.
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FWIW, the Black Belt magazine photo in question is of Jeff Speakman. The theme is Jeff "updating" Ed Parker Kenpo to include elements in their art inspired by MMA competitions.
The photo shows Jeff holding his student's right wrist with his right hand (on the ouside), and doing a 3 knuckle left vertical fist punch to the lower right side of his student's face. Jeff's body is almost completely bladed in the direction of his victim. The tip of the 3rd metacarpal is touching the lower edge of the cheekbone, and the tip of the 5th metacarpal is down in the lower jaw area. Meanwhile, there's a hint that Jeff is simultaneously manipulating a pressure point on the right wrist with his right index finger. Maybe... There's also a hint that he's one step away from a right arm hyperextension using his chest as the fulcrum on the extended elbow.
The picture is posed with everyone wearing their proper patches, and "meat puppet" student dutifully showing the proper grimace of pain for his teacher. Jeff is sporting his very best metrasexual hair style without a single hair out of place.
The angle of Jeff's punching arm is slightly up, reflecting on the situational geometry that Laird speaks of. Meanwhile, traditional Okinawan karate developed the pronated punch to be used to the body, and to be capable of passing force through body armor often found in battle.
Not my idea of a great street technique, but then that isn't what the cover of Black Belt is all about.
- Bill
The photo shows Jeff holding his student's right wrist with his right hand (on the ouside), and doing a 3 knuckle left vertical fist punch to the lower right side of his student's face. Jeff's body is almost completely bladed in the direction of his victim. The tip of the 3rd metacarpal is touching the lower edge of the cheekbone, and the tip of the 5th metacarpal is down in the lower jaw area. Meanwhile, there's a hint that Jeff is simultaneously manipulating a pressure point on the right wrist with his right index finger. Maybe... There's also a hint that he's one step away from a right arm hyperextension using his chest as the fulcrum on the extended elbow.
The picture is posed with everyone wearing their proper patches, and "meat puppet" student dutifully showing the proper grimace of pain for his teacher. Jeff is sporting his very best metrasexual hair style without a single hair out of place.
The angle of Jeff's punching arm is slightly up, reflecting on the situational geometry that Laird speaks of. Meanwhile, traditional Okinawan karate developed the pronated punch to be used to the body, and to be capable of passing force through body armor often found in battle.
Not my idea of a great street technique, but then that isn't what the cover of Black Belt is all about.
- Bill
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wes tasker
Bill, not a fan of Mr. Speakman?The picture is posed with everyone wearing their proper patches, and "meat puppet" student dutifully showing the proper grimace of pain for his teacher. Jeff is sporting his very best metrasexual hair style without a single hair out of place.
I don't have the magazine, so what's the context of the whole technique that you disagree with in it's relation to your opinion and experience with "street" techniques?Not my idea of a great street technique,
-wes tasker
