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Understanding how the human body most efficiently generates, gathers, transmits, and releases power is essential to the practice of Shorin-ryu karate. In Shorin-ryu, power is not manufactured through muscular exertion or linear force production, but emerges from correct alignment, timing, and the disciplined act of sinking the body’s mass through its center. Shorin-ryu methods recognize […]
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