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Our two legs support us in all directions at all times. Example, someone in a horse stance could withstand force from the sides but would be vulnerable to force from the front or rear. In a horse stance two triangulation points always exist.
The triangulation point is that point where we actually need another leg for support, a tripod. The missing leg always exists in a triangulated point between the other two legs. The direction of the points carries just as much importance as the point itself.
The triangulation point takes on importance when executing take downs, throws and the application of the drop-step strike/punch. We should direct all takedowns to the missing leg rather than to the existing legs, i.e., throwing in a direction of nonresistance. It is about helping in the process of falling as much as in throwing. (The number of confluent principles this aligns to is astronomical. It equally changes the ratio of motion, makes the technique centripetal, applies relativity, and allows us to throw down with heaviness, to name just a few.)
If we stand in an adversary’s triangulation point, we help the adversary because (1) we cannot throw them into that TP and (2) we allow the adversary to use us as a leg for additional support.
One of the sub-principles of physiokinetics involves what boxers call “the step-punch.” Since humans rely heavily on just two legs for stability and therefore our application of power involve the creation of a triangle or we rely on stability created by our legs leaving the yin-yang concept, another sub-principle of fundamental principles. Lets use the strike to give example.
We humans must use our weak points to generate power. In striking we move our mass forward by taking a step, a controlled fall where another sub-principle, heaviness (gravity), gets involved. When we fall forward while applying a strike that forward movement along with the controlled fall uses our entire mass in a forward momentum to achieve power.
When we step into a punch, we actually create a controlled fall into one of our own “triangulation points.” This, as already described creates heaviness that is combined with proper structure along with stability and power. This function relies on that balance of forces, yin-yang, while falling into that triangulation point, the arm with which we strike - that which creates the third leg of the triangulation requirements, which takes our weight, heaviness as we fall, that drops into our triangulation point, i.e., the back leg, the moving forward placed leg while still in motion and not yet set, therefore communicates the forces involved into our target. Note: don’t rely on the arm/fist for stability. Think about striking with all our weight a leg can bear thus allowing us to strike with great power.
Dropping our weight, heaviness, must be small to begin with as novices then in millimeters when we achieve greater or higher proficiency. This describes how the power in driving a strike forward with the rear leg - recognizing the yin aspect of that motion - the falling action into the void/triangulation point, with the moving leg stepping forward, the arm/fist traveling toward its target while the forward motion, gravity through the heaviness of the forward motion and falling due to that gravity, creates the step-punch phenomena that is “power applied in the strike.”
This is the step/fall/strike with power! Example: how the proverbial “one-inch” power punch is accomplished, application of these and the other fundamental principles of martial systems for power.
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