With proper timing and sequencing of strikes, it gives the illusion of speed even though you are not rushing. When the opponent buckles under your strikes, it shows the power of your strikes.

Thanks for the post.

MARLON: “So, I start off very very slowly and work my way up to speed, as it were, and whenver I find my mechanics deficient I re start at the very very slowly manner, again. What I need to feel satisfied with myself, in this, is the waist turning with the force of my leg pushing into the ground so as to direct my wieght and push the force produced through the weapon”
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It took me years to understand this process (and I’m still learning), and the accompanying paradox summed up in this aphorism: 1000 times slow, 1 time fast. This is now a staple of my practice, and as Marlon says, I constantly use it as a plumb line for training.
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MARLON: “To move my hands around quickly, and even accurately without engaging the legs and waist is to demonstrate “tippy-tap” kempo and is an effectual and dangerous practice. We have all seen it around, and such demonstrations of kempo seem flashy and sic, and can draw students away from teachings with any real depth or worse draw students away to other sytems”
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I was one of those students drawn away. And while I don’t regret any part of my training history, I can appreciate this point from personal experience. If we can demonstrate a solid system to students, they’ll not feel the need to go somewhere else where it seems more ‘realistic’. And maybe more to the point, they’ll be learning a system that will work in a crunch.
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MARLON: The reality is that kempo is about speed, but speed born of effective mechanics, training, good teaching, practice, honesty and principle in our learning, and much more practice
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‘Nuff said.

Mark