This is a totally new term for me - the valsalva maneuver. It's what you do when you are about to lift something really heavy - you breath in, hold your breath and tense up your whole body.
So, this action is perfectly normal but according to iForm, due to a misunderstanding in the 90:s people have learnt to not hold their breath. Apparently physio therapists taught people with back problems to exhale when they did sit-ups. This has then spread to healthy people, thinking they were clever... It's true that the blood pressure rises, but that is not in any way unhealthy for a healthy person. So, forget about it. :)
But what does this mean to martial arts? You never hear a boxer holding his breath. Could it be you should hold your breath in the very instant you hit, and then right afterwards breath out, in order not to stop breathing?
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