Tonight’s class focused on good body motion. I really appreciated the focus on ensuring correct hip rotation, distancing, and positioning, each analysed seperately in their own drills. The final part of class was ippon kumite followed by sanbon kumite to practice applying what we had been drilling on.
Shotokan’s “trademark technique” is gyaku zuki, the reverse punch. With my previous dojo, nearly -any- time a gyaku zuki was performed, a hip rotation was to go with it. With this current dojo, there are a number of times when hip rotation is shunned as extra motion, relying on the momentum and positioning of the body its self, thereby acting faster, but ultimately I believe with less over all power, which is a large part of making the reverse punch so devestating.