Practice things differently! It’s easy to get caught up in the same routine with training, especially solo-training. Practicing your strikes from a static position is better than nothing, but there should be variation in your training. Remember to mix things up a bit! Sometimes with private lessons I’ll have clients work palm strikes from unorthodox positions: for example, having them start from either a non-violent posture or starting with their hands down, I’ll shove them into a fence, have them experience being uncomfortable and off-balance, not able to generate as much force, and make them recover, orient on the striking pad and make the strike happen. Another drill I’ll do is have clients completely disregard speed and impact on their strikes and isolate just following through the target with their full bodyweight. By placing emphasis on following through your target you achieve better results and less of what I would call, superficial surface strikes. To facilitate generating power I implement resistance bands into warming up strikes. With the added resistance you can’t as easily go through the full range of motion without moving your body as a unit, so after doing about 5 minutes of band-work, take away the band and people are instantly striking significantly harder and faster.
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