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It may seem that the extension of the arm overhead is a little contrived, even theatrical, and more befitting of a martial-arts technique than one that should be used in a real-life situation. After all, do you really have time to extend the arm that high when dealing with an aggressor who is coming at you with full force and full speed? The real answer is no; however, in training we should enlarge and exaggerate our movements, making them as big as possible, for one simple reason: under stress and adrenaline, our movements shrink and become contracted. If we try to train our techniques as we think we would execute them in reality, it is likely that when we are called upon to use them in a real-life confrontation where we are adrenalized/stressed, they will be too small, and will not contain enough power to be effective.

When you train, you should look to make movements—however exaggerated—that will deliver the maximum amount of power and energy possible, with the awareness that adrenaline may well cause them to shrink and become less powerful.