It should also be noted that in many martial arts, the word "telegraph" means to show a punch or any offensive movement before it is actually executed. This can be done by leading with the shoulder, shifting weight from one foot to another, or even something as simple as looking directly at the point of the body that you are about to attack.

A few simple ways of avoiding such a simple but potentially dangerous mistake are:

• Train your eyes at your opponent's third eye. From there you can see his entire body movements.
• Make your punches straight lines from their defensive position to the point of attack. Do not put your body behind the punch until you can be almost completely sure that it will make contact (1-2 inches away from the target).
• Distribute your weight evenly between your feet. Keep both knees slightly bent and your balance centered straight through the entire body.

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Being telegraphed in the martial arts community refers to showing an intended attack before it is executed. It's a major giveaway that someone is afraid of you, since it usually only occures when a person is hesitant, or full of too much emotion to think clearly.

To "not" telegraph (which is the ideal thing here), you have to set a pace and move from that pace to attack. If you plan on kicking, and you're being telegraphed, then lift your shoe soles off the ground in a pattern. Whenever you are ready for the kick, launch it calmly, and they won't see it coming nearly as soon.

It works for punching the same way. Rotate your shoulder while in the boxing stance. Whenever you're ready to swing, release at the point where the rotation is closest to your target. Because your shoulder is constantly moving, it's alot harder to catch.

Also, the point of looking at the "third eye" isn't such a good idea. The whole point of looking into someone's eyes is to see their facial expression, and from that judge if they're going to attack. It also serves the purpose of showing you're not afriad (at least to them), by constantly staring into their eyes.

Tel"e*graph (?), n. [Gr. far, far off (cf. Lith. toli) + -graph: cf. F. t'el'egraphe. See Graphic.]

An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

⇒ The instruments used are classed as indicator, type-printing, symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs, according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an electro-magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.

Acoustic telegraph. See under Acoustic. -- Dial telegraph, a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station. -- Electric telegraph, ∨ Electro-magnetic telegraph, a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. -- Facsimile telegraph. See under Facsimile. -- Indicator telegraph. See under Indicator. -- Pan-telegraph, an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station. -- Printing telegraph, an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. -- Signal telegraph, a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. -- Submarine telegraph cable, a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. -- Telegraph cable, a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. -- Telegraph plant Bot., a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore.

 

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Tel"e*graph (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telegraphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Telegraphing (?).] [F. t'el'egraphier.]

To convey or announce by telegraph.

 

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