your trying to get as much power with as little eftort as possable your trying to get a shock effect from zero tension You should feel the recoil and you should see how it affected your partner just hitting the pads training consists of pad work combinations sparring ippon kumites kata naming a few pinan shodan pinan nidan pinan sandan pinan godan pinan yondan annanku jurokono jiin rohai basai dai kururunfa chinto matsukaze