Everybody wants to have the power of Iron Man! They want to be strong, able to jump into combat and toss around an attacker like a rag doll. The problem is that nobody seems to know what true power is.
Everybody confuses the idea of power with the size of their muscles, or strength, or other things. But power has nothing to do with strength or muscles. The actual truth is that Power has to do with stabilizing the motor that is your body.
A motor is two terminals between which there is tension. Whether it is a push or a pull, the tension between two poles creates a motor. Push on another body and you have a motor, love somebody and you have a motor, and so on from the smallest to the largest objects in this universe.
In the world of physics as we know it, a motor, unless held in place, will move as result of the forces it is creating and using. A car motor has brackets which hold the machine in place, lest it flip over and fall on the ground. A helicopter has a tail rotor to hold it in place.
In the martial arts one must hold oneself in place to weather the onslaught of combat, or to launch an attack. That is the purposes of stances, incidentally, not to make strong muscles, but to fix the body in place, or to launch it through space. Once one learns how to use stances to do these things one is able to use energy much more efficiently.
Now boxing, or the UFC type of fisticuffs, does not use stances, and they waste energy, and do not build energy. Thus, they must rely on the strength of individual motors such as biceps and triceps and hams and gluts and so on, which provide tension across the bones and enable them to move. At this point, unless there is an accident of colliding with the whole body, the only power provided is the weight of the arm, but when you hold the whole body in place, or launch it as a unit, you use the weight of the whole body, and this is efficiency.
The point here is that to enable the body to create true power, you must use a stance, and you must sink your weight whenever you do a technique. Whether you strike, or kick, or block, you must learn how to sink the weight when doing so. This will lock the motor of the body down, and actually cause the energy generator of the body the tan tien to create usable energy in wholesale amounts.
I know everybody wants to hit people and win trophies, but MMA fighting doesn't create energy, it only wastes bodies. Thus, a practice of Karate, or Shaolin, or especially the wudan arts, results in far greater amounts of power, and with enhancement to the body, and not damage. No offense to the big muscle boys, but we are talking about true power here, the kind of power that lasts all day long, and does lead the student of classical arts, such as karate or shaolin or wudan, to higher levels.
By: Al Case Article Directory: articledashboard.com
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