Reverse punch is a glorious technique to execute. Your feet are planted flat on the floor for stability, your hips move sharply in the direction of the target, and your pullback arm is the equal and opposite movement that adds power and focus.
I think Aristotle is right that we come to know the world through our senses. Perception may be flawed, like an unstable stance in doing gyaku zuki, but it is the contact with the world that matters. This computer is not a dream in my or someone else's mind. It is real.
We are real, created creatures in a non-arbitrary universe. To do gyaku zuki is to celebrate the gift of existence. How wonderful to feel the rotation, the building power, the crisp stop of focus at the target when all tendons, muscles, and bones are directed to one purpose.
Gyaku zuki is meditation in motion, a prayerful reminder of who is who and what is what.
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