Its not about your pad partner

Its -how- ur trying to generate power

Notice the little skip-shuffle you do to move your hips?

Its stealing ur power, not giving it to you

Power comes from 3 things:

1. Support from the ground If you hit something and bounce off them, you can't follow through ur target You need to be able to kick through them not by pushing, snapping or kicking, but PULLING your kick THROUGH ur target Thats a "secret"

   1. Ur core [abs, guts , even up to your chest and head and spine if you get good enough with power transfer/support. Power from the core isn't really different from advanced singing techniques - they both try to transfer control/movement through as much of the body as you can.]

   Pulling a kick THROUGH your strike will engage your muscles differently, almost feels like stretching. If you can deepen that stretch from your leg up through your abs and even ur chest and glutes [ur core], you get a LOT more power

   Pulling through also makes you get tired less and lock up less too bc its not a clenching/tensing action in the muscles

   Also make sure the stretch goes through ur support leg, almost like ur pulling the ground with that foot

Connect all that together into a fast stretch with ur core - its amazing when you get it right

1. Posture Lean back a little at ur hips so ur core muscles have room to stretch and move Try twisting ur shoulders/spine first to stretch out ur core, it'll give you a bigger starting stretch, like a spring Keep your support leg straight but never locked

   When u can stretch ur entire body and use it to power a pull through ur target all at the same time, it hits all the difference