An interesting thing is starting to happen in karate competition. Blocking in dead. It has been replaced with ducking, covering, and head movement. This is making it very difficult to score with reverse punch to the body. You can start to see the change to more and more Jab’s/Kizami Zuki as a primary scoring technique offensively and to counter. It is fast, sharp, closer to the target and hard to block.
It also is the primary tool to set up most double and multiple attacks. Could this punch replace Reverse Punch as the most important karate punch… I think it has already happened, but that is only my opinion.
