The first notion I developed was that of exploding energy. That's the easiest type of energy to find, 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 head pain; I was suffering whiplash from the energy I was exploding through my structure.
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 energy came about after I learned exploding, and through my study of Tai Chi Chuan. Quickly, I realized that I could use this power in other arts, first and foremost Pa Kua Chang. The stances and the lengths of time, however, kept the power from doing me damage.
And, I found that Karate was also long in posture, and didn't force too much power through my structure. Where I encountered difficulty was with the art of Pan Gai Noon. The stances are hourglass stances, and you explode, and then twist, the energy up the body.
The power comes out like a freight train, and the body just can't handle it. It took a couple of months, but I started having weird tingles in my body, and my back started hurting. I knew intuitively what was happening.
Corkscrewing the power through my shortened stances was moving bones out of place. Again, the solution was not difficult. All I had to do was back off on the energy, create more space in my body, and lessen the snap. The result was a more mental approach to the martial arts movements I was doing.
It's funny how we all want more and more power. Greedy gluttons that we are, we don't realize that true power comes not from the size and amount of energy, but from the sensitivity to space within ourselves. To create true power, and to make it past the dangers imposed by the finiteness of our human frames, we need to create more space, before and after our martial arts motions, and within our tempered bodies, and that is how you avoid the difficulties of coiling power in Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, and Pan Gai Noon.
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