| No offense, but your instructor needs to re-examine what he is teaching. Pulling the hands back to chamber is a drilling excercise ONLY. If you put your hand to your waist you are gimping your defense and offense. You are basically telling any opponent who faces you, "Here, my hands are down. Please hit me in the face!" Only way it could be worse is if you stuck your chin out when you chambered your hands to your waist. Most of the power from a good strike comes from the legs and glutes. If you cut that power off at the waste then it'll be like shooting someone with a pea shooter. Its just going to annoy them. My advice is find another instructor. |