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Post by Colin Wee on Mar 1, 2006 21:43:23 GMT 8
I haven't fallen in some time due to this mistake. However, I have noticed that many of my group tend to forget the role of the support leg. The support leg is ignored, relaxed, and makes for a poor fulcrum for the kicking leg. This is what happens to land people on the butt.
I try to discuss this with the idea of vectors. Equal and opposite reaction for the arms mean a pull back arm. But the same lesson applied to the legs mean that you need to understand that a perpendicular support leg *can* also apply equal and opposite reaction - but you just factor in the vector of the force and the body so that the striking foot has a stable fulcrum.
Basically it is this - the support leg must be pushing on the ground enough so that the striking foot strikes and penetrates rather than bounces off.
What a moutful!
Colin
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Post by supergroup7 on Mar 8, 2006 1:53:28 GMT 8
"you need to understand that a perpendicular support leg *can* also apply equal and opposite reaction " So.. Colin... does this suggest the idea that you actually "push" on the ground with your support leg at the same time that you send the kick out? ??
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Post by Colin Wee on Mar 8, 2006 8:27:35 GMT 8
SOmething like that - the support leg 'pushes' on the ground in order to support the kicking direction. So the push doesn't lift you up, it sends you toward the striking target. Colin
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