The Hardest Punch hits the Home Run!

In the martial arts a knock out is a home run. I don’t care if you study karate or tai chi chuan or tae kwon do, if the end result of your punch, or choke, is that the guy does not go unconscious, then you have not hit a home run. In short, you didn’t get the job done.

If you swing and miss with your fist, it is a strike. Enough of these and you’re going to strike out, because the other guy is going to get his chance at bat. And you cannot bet that when he gets to bat he is not going to hit a home run.

If you swing and hit and there is no damage, it is a foul ball. If you hit a foul in this manner, you have wasted your effort, and he is that much closer to taking his own turn at fisting your face. So foul balls are not a good thing when it comes to the martial arts.

If you swing and hit him and he is hurt, that is a definite base hit. If he takes a step back or drops his arms you have an advantage strategically, and you get to take another swing. You are standing on first base, and you may, depending on your next swings of the fist, make it all the way around to home plate and knock him out.

If he gets weak legs or shows weakness in any way, then you have made it to second base. You have done some damage, and reduced the possibility of him hitting a home run. Further, you have an advantage, no matter how short it is, and you need to really rock and roll on your man.

If you swing a big punch and knock him down, you are standing on third base. Now you know he is hurt, you see the frightened way he looks at you, you see the awareness that you might be able to knock him all the way out. Knocking somebody down is awful close to knocking him out, and home base is just a short distance away.

Now, the above being said, getting a base hit is fine, but they are not the home run, and there is risk of being put out yourself before you make it home. So you have to make sure you knock your opponent all the way out. You have hit him hard, you have the hardest punch in the world, and that is the ticket to the real home run.

The truth of the matter is no matter what martial art you happen to prefer, wudan or aikido or isshin ryu, you have to knock him out. If it goes to a decision, then nothing has really been proven. If there is no knock out then the fighters were only dancing, pawing at each other, and not really fighting, and neither fighter was able to get the job done, and they better get back to the dojo and study The True Martial Art.

Al Case has analyzed martial arts for forty++ years. A writer for the magazines, he is the founder of Matrix Martial Arts. You can pick up a free ebook about matrixing at Monster Martial Arts. You can find out about the hardest punch in the world at Punch Em Out.

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