Topic: Which hip for Choku-Tsuki ?

[JimmyTheHoover]

When punching Choku-Tsuki which hip do you use ? (from Hachichi-Dachi/Yoi position)

[Huw]

Both!! If I only use one I fall over 















Sorry. Couldn't resist that 

[JimmyTheHoover]

LOL  

....now what's your "other" answer ?    (although I've heard that for YOU it might be NONE  )

[Moley]

Jimmy, is this question leading then to which hip do you use to punch ChokkuTsuki Left hand when you have left leg forward in Zenkutsudachi stance ?

If so ..I use Right hip, same as if I was punching Guaku Tsuki with Right hand.

But in answer to your first question, I use both hips , ie the hip of the punching hand.

[JimmyTheHoover]

Jimmy, is this question leading then to which hip do you use to punch ChokkuTsuki Left hand when you have left leg forward in Zenkutsudachi stance ?

If so ..I use Right hip, same as if I was punching Guaku Tsuki with Right hand.

Got it in one Moley 

....although I was beginning to wonder if it was a KUGB" thing 

It seems obvious to me - especially when you describe it like you just did - however a lot of folk (at least up North  ) don't seem to have the concept of Choku-Tsuki other than in Hachichi-Dachi and seem to think that with a leg forward a punch must either be Oi or Gyagu Tsuki 

....so - as I do - I thought that I'd ask you guys and gals 

[JimmyTheHoover]

.... Oh - and forgot to mention - even when in Hachichi-Dach - some seem to think that its "same hip as arm" 

[Huw]

LOL 
....now what's your "other" answer ?    (although I've heard that for YOU it might be NONE  )

I still think the answer is both. Unless you're made of rubber I'm guessing most people will use their hips as a single unit. When one goes forward the other comes back. Same kind of concept as hikite as applied to punching.

[JimmyTheHoover]

LOL 
....now what's your "other" answer ?    (although I've heard that for YOU it might be NONE  )

I still think the answer is both. Unless you're made of rubber I'm guessing most people will use their hips as a single unit. When one goes forward the other comes back. Same kind of concept as hikite as applied to punching.

Stop arguing over "semantics" 

....as explained ? above I'm asking about the "dominant" hip - we'll leave such esoteric matters as "hip vibration" for another day - in a Galaxy far Far Away.......