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I came across an old article on the physics of karate posted, copied article, to a blog. I wrote an article on that article, yes I wrote that, but when I read through it I came across this quote that literally made me cough up and spew forth my morning coffee. I am flabbergasted that karate-ka and the publisher of the magazine that published this article actually believed this. Here is the quote:
“A well executed karate strike delivers to its target several kilowatts of power over several milliseconds, quite enough to break blocks of wood and concrete.”
Really, generated actual electrical kilowatt of power? Are you kidding me and they fell for this, come on people to generate actual electrical power you need a means to carry that electrical charge and the last time I looked our arms and hands are not made up of such materials. You know, like a certain gauge of wire. Unless certain physics are in place electrical charges, even a mere few kilowatts, cannot be generated and transferred through our bodies unless we are grounded to some electrical generating system or device, we are also grounded at the other end, say the fist to a target and that target must also be properly grounded to complete a circuit.
You cannot generate a few kilowatts of electrical charge from the application of karate, where is the power source? Where is the conduit that allows the transmission of electrical charge and where is the grounding on the body of some adversary? Even so, where are these things in brick or wood? Wood and brick or concrete don’t generate electrical charges unless some other conductive material is present. Is water on the ground present? Is water present on the wood or concrete? Is there a electrical generating system attached to either you or the adversary?
Ok, made my point, and I have to say that in the early days, including myself in this comment, we all in karate were very, very gullible. Electrical charge or kilowatt electrical power have nothing to do with the power and force the human body generates when proper principles are applied in hitting or getting hit. This just goes to show just how much the authors did NOT know or understand about hitting or being hit. Don’t get upset with me because I didn’t truly understand it in an academic sense before reading the book on Hitting and Getting Hit by Marc MacYoung.
Power comes in a variety of models where electrical power charges are but one. When the body moves its mass and when the bodies structure, etc., align in the kinetic movement and when a convergence of our bodies meet a target and all things being equal without chaos in the mix we generate great power along with its force.
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