A Study of Progressions of Chi Energy in the Martial Arts

By Al Case

If you think the martial arts are about fighting, you are silly, indeed. They are about finding the truth of you, they are about sculpting the energy of your body, they are about finding your true potential as a person. This article is a simple breakdown of how chi energy progresses in the Martial Arts.

I should say, before we delve deeper, that this construction is idealized. Chi progression happens as I say it happens if the art(s) you are studying have not been corrupted and twisted. Unfortunately, most arts have been twisted, and only a study of Matrixing will return them to their true worth.

We begin with Karate because it is simple, and because, having been the first martial art to hit it big in the US of A, and many parts of the world, Karate styles form an underpinning or basis for most other arts, even should they be overly different in their constitution. The cultures of the US and the world, you see, have gravitated to it, and many people have an underlying philosophy of Karate imbedded in their thought when they study other martial arts.

Karate can be said to be most concerned with explosive power. This is hard chi that is common to kenpo, taekwondo, or any art which specializes in highly skilled striking techniques. Study the explosive power of Karate and this will grow the chi power of any other art you might study.

Once one has 'awakened' to the possibilities of energy through a thorough study of Karate, there are many potential paths to follow. This writer prefers the path of Shaolin Kung Fu, for that art develops a 'rolling chi energy' style of power. However, if one hasn't learned Explosive Power well, it can take many years, perhaps even decades, to properly generate this power.

After Shaolin Kung Fu one might dig into a Wudan style art such as Pa Kua Chang. This is a 'lengthier' style of chi power, and the energy doesn't just travel up and down the legs, it twines through the limbs. Again, too many arts have become too corrupted to put forth this energy efficiently (without many years of study, and even then there are problems), and one should make sure they have suspended chi power and rolling power from Karate and Shaolin.

Last (though this is a limited list) would be a study of Tai Chi Chuan. This is suspended energy, and it is a superior energy. I have met many martial artists, however, who have lacked competence because they didn't study early types of martial arts power.

In closing, the arts are not separate, they are merely different portions of the same pie. One needs to consume the whole pie if they wish to learn the whole art. Further one should learn how to bind the whole thing together if they wish to really understand this whole Chi Energy in the Martial Arts thing.

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