My friend and I were messing around with trying to figure out the
Systema striking method. I know it doesn't come in a couple of days
or anything like that. We were basically just playing around trying
to figure out how in the world you punch and at the same time are
relaxed. Out of nowhere I think I "got it" by accident. I punched
him in the stomach and it felt like my fist went in all the way up to
my wrist. He said it felt like the punch, "went through to the
spine." The sound it made connectiong was different also. It is
hard to explain what the sound was, kind of a wet smack. It sounded
very different than usual. My friend had his abs really tightened (I
know that's the wrong way to take it) and the punch went through like
a knife through butter. LOL I think it scared us both pretty bad!
If this is the right way to do it I would suppose it worked becuase I
quit "trying" and just did it. It is really frustrating to try and
get back in the right frame of mind to repeat it! I think we've
learned not to try that without some sort of pad or something. We may
be too careful but we really don't know what we are doing. Better
safe than sorry. Are we on the right path here to proper striking?
Or at least taking a baby step in the right direction?