Challenge vs. Chinkuchi

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As many who have read my rendering of words on the push-up bars this next issue in the series is an analysis of a difference regarding its overall stabilizing results toward certain benefits using one over the other.

Using the 360degree graphic the single leg challenge bar would have the single point dead center while the chinkuchi bar dual legs would place one point midway vertical on the line from the center to the 180 with the second midway from the center to the 0 degree mark.

The chinkuchi bar can only move left or right while the challenge bar can move in any of the directions around the entire 360 degrees.

When you try it and feel it and visualize it you can understand which tests one’s ability to stabilize the wrist and fist regardless of the 360 degree whichever direction a force would or could be applied.

When in the chaos of violence against a moving adversary one can naturally sense that force and power can be applied from any direction be it fist, hand, foot or joints where the structure and stability of our skeletal system can be either strong and stable or buckle and break all dependent upon such principles and concepts,

If your creative imagination is on high awareness you can also see how the application of force and power and stability can be superior using the open hand over the closed fist. 

This also speaks loudly as a principled based concept applicable to all systems of empty hand taking away the concepts and importance that differentiating between styles is more a status and emotional manifestation because when all is said and done a principled based skill-set trumps whether it is goju or shorin or isshin or any other style or system because in the end proper structure, alignment, and force-power, etc., are how we achieve success over harm in violence.

A good example is observing competitions where the skills applied do NOT resemble anything one can detect and relate to the styles we use as tools to learn, train and practice.

This brings me back to our comparison of the push-up bars, a single leg challenge is tantamount to working with free weights vs. the double leg being machine weights. The idea of higher weight over lower weights when our ability to handle free weights at lower poundage is superior seems logical.

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