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When learning the martial arts, especially if you want to be effective, you need to learn the differences, the gains and limitations, of the two kinds of punches. Knowing these punches will dictate and proscribe your combat strategy. Knowing these punches will effect your training and enlighten you as to the True Martial Arts.

I was engaged in teaching a martial arts class, and I had one student whose father liked to go to the bar next door and enjoy himself while his son was getting healthy and strong. After class one day, the father staggered in and pulled out a gun and pointed it at me, and he made the remark that karate isn’t any good if a guy has a gun. I took the pistol from him, held it in my hand, looked at him, and grinned.