Students are working on developing quickness and agility using a tape agility ladder. While moving down the ladder, the student is focusing on exploiting the rebound from stored kinetic energy to move lightly but powerfully. Hitting the pad at the end of the ladder gives the student an opportunity to experience how momentum and the drop-step can produce fast, powerful punches. As the pad holder advances, the student works on employing the same stability and agility while moving backwards and throwing punches as fast as possible, using the feet to dig in to strike forward powerfully.

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