Accuracy

It’s been a while since we played medicine ball bowling, so I thought I’d capture it on film. For today’s version, if you didn’t knock over all three, then you had to do a bear walk for 40 feet before your next throw.

The goal? How many points in 5 minutes. If you knock over all three pads each time, that score can get huge.

The martial technique of the day was the stop hit. What is it? It’s not a block. A block stops a particular piece of the body – namely the one that’s going to strike you if you don’t do something about it. The stop hit makes the attacker’s entire body stop. The easiest one to do against a right roundhouse is to palm heel strike your partner in the shoulder. The earlier you hit them in the process of their punch, the better the effect.

The result? On the receiving end, it feels like whiplash. You were headed in one direction (forward) and all of a sudden you’re either completely stopped or worse, stumbling backwards. The harder you throw the punch, the more violent the whiplash.