How to Properly Use a Makiwara (Machiwara)

First I want to apologize for the wind. That is why we are building our own dojo. So we won't have all of the noise pollution that the other sites we can use are afflicted with.
Now that you have built your Proper Makiwara (see: How to Construct a Proper Makiwara (Machiwara)), I will explain how to Properly USE your Makiwara. Machiwara is the way the Okinawan language pronounces Makiwara.
My way. But. Every principle. Every idea came from Master Shigeru Nakamura and his student Master Seiyu Oyata. If not for them, I would be less. Again, the original posted seven years ago had over 5,000 views.
The purpose of training with the Makiwara never was to beat it until you developed calloused or monstrous foreknuckles. The purpose has always been to develop proper skeletal alignment and muscle movement enabling maximum effectiveness of your strike. To prevent damage the Machiwara needs to have one inch of give, but not more than one and a half to two inches so the effects you want to happen, do. The ugly deformities that improper training creates not only lead to problems in later life, but scream out to adversaries that you are a trained person who should be blindsided and ambushed unawares to assure your defeat. Too much give and the proper alignment will not be created. The effect would be tantamount to hitting a bag. A really stiff one, but still a bag!
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