Veron turned to the bag. “Hit like you mean it.” He struck the bag with a powerful blow. “Ideally, you would only need to strike your enemy once. But real life is rarely ideal, so you must be able to keep striking until your enemy is down and stays down. Connect your blows as if it is your only chance to save yourself. Or the only chance you have to save someone you care about.”
I took my stance again and imagined the bag was the goblin Ragar coming at me. Using the palm strike we’d been working on, I hit the bag as hard as I could, nearly throwing myself off balance.
“Shift your position, good. Rotate your shoulders with the strike. Exhale on each strike.”
I tried a few more hits.
“Good, push with your foot to get more into the hit. Use your whole body, but don’t overextend yourself;
