Shi

Yeah, you can hit stuff like that without injury....but NOT in context with what he is describing ie "FULL POWER" stikes to a brick wall that not only don't get you hurt but don't really move you either.

My guess is that its either not really "full power" or he is not really understanding where the force is going--cause its going somewhere.

If he had said something like:

"You know, with proper training and conditioning you can a brick wall pretty hard without injury"

I'd have said "probably not a good idea, but ok."

But that is neither what he said nor how he framed the discussion.

Plus like I said its a static drill....we have professional fighters breaking their hands in active streetfights--even some "name" guys...yet Don expects a non-pro student to be able to hit a brick wall with FULL POWER and not get hurt.

Does not sound like a good idea to me....nor all that valuable a method of training.

Actually, I think it all depends on what you mean by "full power".

If you mean a full-powered penetrating strike (karate style) with no control at all, I find it difficult to believe that one might reach such mastery as not to get ANY of that power bouncing back in your body and dissipating there with nasty results - even if you can get some of it to be redirected into the ground.

However, I know for a fact that it's possible to deliver a pretty powerful but highly controlled strike and pull it back so fast that the energy delivered isn't given a chance to bounce back into the weapon used, so that it just dissipates itself entirely inside the target and causes all its damage there (which wouldn't be much in the case of a brick wall, but that's not the point). Of course, the less "give" in the target, the harder to pull off this neat little feat. It definitely wouldn't be easy on a solid wall, but not impossible either, I reckon.

I've been experimenting on this principle using a hammer, but I definitely don't trust my ability to produce that phenomenon with consistency enough yet to try it with natural weapons (my piano and flutes still need some of those sometimes, and I'd hate to deprive them of company... ).

I agree or you can kick or punch a wall or tree with a solid blow planting your stance and there is no ill effect if you built that sort of structure.

But the key words are FULL POWERED with wreckless abandon, I've never tried that so I couldn't say odds are CXT is right its hard to fight mother nature/laws of physics.

But a soild controlled powered side kick or strike been there done that when I was younger. Wouldn't do it now because it proves nothing that hitting a heavy bag would prove, I got more responcibilty and I'm older/fragile.

"Lol @ "powers". The internet gets really goofy sometimes. Particularly martial arts forums."

Man, it has nothing to do with 'powers'. Different set of words that means the same thing as whatever jargon you speak.
Come off it.

And the UFC is a creepy 'boy's club' anyway.

Good point CXT. I will stick to kicking only cement walls and disiduous trees from now on.

Sorry Jude, I wasn't being serious. Par for the course with this thread