Here's another great post called How to bark…. from the excellent Epic Martial Arts Blog | Or more precisely how to get the disinclined to bark…. In a comment on an earlier post Boris B asked for some tips on how to get people who can’t let go sufficiently to vocalise whilst striking. Often people will feel awkward about ‘barking’ when striking. People can feel a bit silly, ironic really if they are wearing pyjamas and bowing to each other! With kids its easy enough, they usually love to make a noise and then it’s just a case of refining the noise they make. For a shy retiring adult, it is probably a good idea to explain why barking is useful. In a previous post I outline some of the ways I’ve used different vocalisations when I teach. You can explain that weightlifters make a noise when they explode into a clean and jerk, or how Seles and others would grunt on each shot. Quoting Steve Morris The utterance of sounds whilst training and fighting is one way of charging the CNS to raise the number of motor units recruited and their rate of firing.  The sounds also can determine the pattern, rate, and intensity with which you strike, defend, or counter.  The duration of the [...] Read more about tons of Martial Arts topics at Epic Martial Arts Blog

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