Hikite Meaning And Exercises To Make It Stronger

Hikite translates as pulling hand. So with the straight punch Choku tsuki, the hikite or pulling hand is the opposite hand with which you are punching with.

In kihon, the hikite arm comes back to the side of the body, just under the ribs, there’s the hikite grab and strikeobvious opposite reaction to the punch, stronger the pulling arm, stronger the punch, but there’s a lot more meaning to it than just that!

My favourite way of using hikite and the meaning of hikite is controlling your opponent. So especially self defense where you’re grabbing, grab their shirt, grab their jacket, grab their arm, grab their wrist, grab, grab something and pull and strike.

So in self defense, hikite is great for controlling. When I was competing, I went through a spell of grabbing and striking, unfortunately grabbing is not allowed, so I would get warned and disqualified. I would think to myself, ‘why can’t you grab? It’s just so effective. It’s just so good for controlling your opponent and pulling them onto your strike.’

Here we are going to be working on a few exercises to develop and strengthen your hikite.

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This remind me of Kusanku/Kankudai Kata.

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After punch, the hand stay there, forward as 7:45 until next punch (as we do in Kata). Why? Why we dont see that in tournaments?