{"id":1490,"date":"2015-06-13T23:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:27:50","slug":"training-nukite-on-the-makiwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Training Nukite on the Makiwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Makiwara has done more to clean up my strikes than anything else. It regularly teaches me new thigns and shows me how things I thought I understood were wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Well karate has a number of finger and nuckle strikes that I have only recently gotten to the point where I have added them to my stiking practice. Only problem is even soft strikes just killed my fingers.  My sensei showed me a neat trick to work on my finger strikes. Basically you hang a punching target from the makiwara, then do your strikes against the pad. After a few months I was able to work up to striking the naked makiwara. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nukite_pad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nukite_pad.jpg\" alt=\"Nuke strikes on padded Makiwara\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big problem I am trying to figure out currently is my pinky finger hanging out from my hand during the strike. It does not seem to impact the stike, but I cant help thinking that having the one finger separated from my hand has the potential for it to get hung up on the harget or broken. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nukite_problem_p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nukite_problem_p1.jpg\" alt=\"Pinky problem\" width=\"1526\" height=\"1632\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1493\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I am regularly practicing Nukite, I can see how I am doing it wroge all over the place. Pinan Shodan for example has a Nukite strike to the throat, and I can now see I was just thrusting with a knife hand during the kata. My finger position was all wrong. So now I need to fix my Kata and my strikes.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Makiwara has done more to clean up my strikes than anything else. It regularly teaches me new thigns and shows me how things I thought I understood were wrong. Well karate has a number of finger and nuckle strikes that I have only recently gotten to the point where I have added them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}