It's funny how these energetical ideas roil around and impact with each other. I see them in all the fighting disciplines, but they seem strongest in the fighting disciplines of Tai Chi Chuan and Pa Kua Chang and Pan Gai Noon. What's not funny is how you can damage the body as you cross engineer certain ideas.
The first concept was exploding energy. That's the easiest one, and it pops up through all arts quickly, and I found it in Karate. Unfortunately, I found that at a certain point it was causing me severe migraines; I was suffering whiplash from the power I was exploding through my body.
Normally, most people not studying the martial arts for sufficient time, people won't suffer this. But if you are a long time practitioner then you will tend to get a little out of your body, and that's when energy starts to bite back. My solution to this problem was simply to hit softer, and put more intention in the strike; do less and intend more, that's the key, and it is a matter of developing willpower.
Coiling came about after exploding, and through my study of Tai Chi Chuan. Quickly, I realized that I could use this power in Pa Kua Chang. The stances and the lengths of time, however, kept the power under control.
And, I found that Karate was also long in stance, and didn't force too much power through my body. Where I encountered trouble was with Pan Gai Noon. The stances are short, they are hourglass stances, and you explode, and then twist, the energy up the body.
The power moves through like a freight train, and the body just can't handle it. It took a couple of months, but I started having weird sensations in my body, and my spine started hurting. I knew what was happening as soon as I perceived these things.
Corkscrewing the power through my hourglass stances was moving bones out of alignment. Again, the solution was not insurmountable. All I had to do was back off on the energy and lessen the snap and pop. The result was a more mental approach to the martial arts techniques.
It's funny how we all seek power, are enamored by power, want more and more power. Greedy gluttons that we are, we don't realize that true power comes not from the magnitude of energy, but from the degree of softness within. To create true power, and to make it past the barriers established by the finiteness of our bodies, we need to create more space, before and after our martial arts movements, and within our tempered bodies, and that is how you avoid the danger of coiling power in Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, and Pan Gai Noon.
The first concept was exploding energy. That's the easiest one, and it pops up through all arts quickly, and I found it in Karate. Unfortunately, I found that at a certain point it was causing me severe migraines; I was suffering whiplash from the power I was exploding through my body.
Normally, most people not studying the martial arts for sufficient time, people won't suffer this. But if you are a long time practitioner then you will tend to get a little out of your body, and that's when energy starts to bite back. My solution to this problem was simply to hit softer, and put more intention in the strike; do less and intend more, that's the key, and it is a matter of developing willpower.
Coiling came about after exploding, and through my study of Tai Chi Chuan. Quickly, I realized that I could use this power in Pa Kua Chang. The stances and the lengths of time, however, kept the power under control.
And, I found that Karate was also long in stance, and didn't force too much power through my body. Where I encountered trouble was with Pan Gai Noon. The stances are short, they are hourglass stances, and you explode, and then twist, the energy up the body.
The power moves through like a freight train, and the body just can't handle it. It took a couple of months, but I started having weird sensations in my body, and my spine started hurting. I knew what was happening as soon as I perceived these things.
Corkscrewing the power through my hourglass stances was moving bones out of alignment. Again, the solution was not insurmountable. All I had to do was back off on the energy and lessen the snap and pop. The result was a more mental approach to the martial arts techniques.
It's funny how we all seek power, are enamored by power, want more and more power. Greedy gluttons that we are, we don't realize that true power comes not from the magnitude of energy, but from the degree of softness within. To create true power, and to make it past the barriers established by the finiteness of our bodies, we need to create more space, before and after our martial arts movements, and within our tempered bodies, and that is how you avoid the danger of coiling power in Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, and Pan Gai Noon.
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