Research draft · publication track
F = ma describes you accelerating you. So why train it as if the target feels it?
The F = ma Fallacy · a Techanique research theme by Dr. J. L. Natale
A moment of honesty
Does this sound like you?
- You've built your training around a simple belief: faster equals harder.
- You chase speed and explosiveness, but impact hasn't followed the way you expected.
- You've never actually questioned the physics you were handed as a beginner.
- You can win the race through the air and still hit like a wet newspaper.
If you recognized yourself in even two of these, you're not stuck. You're missing a measurement.
The plateau
If you've optimized the wrong half of the equation, your effort is going somewhere. Just not into the target. That's years of work paying the wrong account.
Active research
A working draft, on the publication track.
The tidy “force equals mass times acceleration” slogan pulls attention toward the visible, in-flight part of a strike. It pulls you away from the collision itself, where the outcome is actually decided.
This theme is an active draft on its way to publication. The question is public. The methods, models, and data stay confidential until they're validated. That's the same rigor Joe brings to a private assessment.
What is on the other side
Train the collision instead of the travel, and the same body starts delivering a different kind of force. The equation was never wrong. It was aimed at the wrong phase.
You can't fix what you've never measured. A session with Joe turns this question into your own numbers: a data-driven read on this exact gap, and a path to close it. For many athletes, it's the piece that was quietly holding the next level out of reach.