This is one of those things that, as a new martial artist, seems pretty simple in your mind. It's something you tend to think you "get" right from the start. I thought I got it. I was so wrong.
As part of my fine tuning with Da Mu Hsing, I've been working on really establishing that last second rotation in my thrust punch. I was playing around with some different things, when I realized that my other hand, the opposite, yet equal hand, was an issue. I was incorporating it initially, but it almost "petered" out during that last portion of snapping it to my waist. As if it became irrelevant...or forgotten...or that I was already moving on to the next move in my mind. Maybe all of these.
Either way, when I started to truly focus on making sure I was snapping back to my waist just as intensely as I wanted to strike out...it became a moment where I suddenly realized that I have never actually thrown a true, proper thrust punch. And the clouds parted and the angels sang. Two years, and I just now have felt what a thrust punch is actually supposed to feel like. I was excited and humbled all at once.
I love these kinds of "discoveries". They are usually things that I've done over and over...and that I've received instruction on over and over...and I think "yes, I know this". But then one day I actually FEEL it, and I realize I knew nothing....and I'm okay with that. 😂
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