So, funny story, I'm getting laid off, again. Bright side: more time for kung fu. Down side, obvious. Hopefully a new job will be forthcoming.

I've been trying to get to kung fu more often, and on friday I would have made class but for my car breaking down en route. I did, however, make it out on Saturday.

I've been working on my thrust punches lately and on Saturday a new visualization occured to me. We're always told to let our fist pull our arm, but I'd rather view it in terms of, for lack of more appropriate terms, inhale and exhale. By which I mean the taking in and projecting out of power, not of air (side note: fists don't deal with air). Most fists, attached of course to most people, want to exhale during the entire punch. This is wrong, all the force you exhale on the way to your target is wasted, having of course only so much breath. If one inhales, however, then one can mass their power for a pleasant, if exclamatory exhalation upon their arrival at their target. And rather than pulling with your fist, you can let the suction of your fist's inhalation pull it, and your arm by association, to the target, and then let the exhalation blow it back.
*Disclaimer: the above is intended to be treated as metaphorical, rather than metaphysical.

Ben Davies
Silent River Kung fu
Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
www.silentriverkungfu.com