Karate in Pompano Beach

[I:8:J]One of the biggest mysteries come out of the eastern combative arts is chi or ki. Wudan arts, like Pa Kua Chang and Hsing i and Tai Chi Chuan claim they can make it. Supposedly it takes lifetimes to create this thing called chi, but when you get it you can defeat hordes of attackers with a sigh and a snort of the nostrils.

Well, the truth of the matter is that internal energy is in many arts, and if it is not, it can be put into any art easily. The principles of internal energy, you see, are easy to understand. So if you study kenpo or tae kwon do, or even boxing, then the door is hereby opened for you, this article is going to lay out those principles and shove you through the door.

The most important thing is that you have to have phenomenal basics, not just good, but absolutely phenomenal. What this means is that you must sink your body weight when striking or blocking, and do so with such awareness that you actually create a beam of energy down your leg. You must align the parts of your body so that they form an unbroken pathway for the energy to flow along, very important that they are relaxed, because intention and energy will flow easier through a relaxed body.

Now, you must make sure that you move the parts of your body at the same time. Everything starts together, and everything stop together, this is called Coordinated Body Motion. Analyze your body so that when it swings into alignment all of the pieces are moving in harmony, and with consideration for their mass and size and shape and so on.

Now, you've got basics, and here comes the internal energy. Fill a pipe half with sand and cap it. Move that pipe in such a way that when you stop it all the sand strikes the inside of the pipe at the same time.

What I have described, with the pipe analogy and drill is what internal energy is and does. It is energy swirled on the inside of your body in such a way that it collects and collides on the inside of the block, or strike, or foot, or whatever, at the same time. We used to develop this type of energy in kang duk won karate all the time, but we didn't think of it as internal energy because it didn't have any undue significance, it was just the way we moved.

It is helpful if you move slowly, concentrating on feeling the motion of energy inside your body. And, to be truthful, the internal Wudan martial arts have arranged their forms so as to help the process. But you can feel it in Karate, or tae kwon do, or any striking art, if you just take the time to appreciate what you are doing.

The real key is that this method, and all methods, rely on you perceiving the moving of mass inside your body. Move energy with awareness, and the course of this consciousness can be called Chi, or Ki, or Prana, or pneuma, or intention. Now, the real question here is whether you are willing to relax your motions enough to invest your movements with chi, or intention, or whatever you want to call it.

Karate in Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach Karate

Pompano Beach Karate

Al Case has taught martial arts for 4O+ years. This includes TCC, PKC, Aikido, Shaolin, etc. He is a writer for the magazines, and the inventor of Matrixing Technology and Neutronics. You can find out more about Internal Energy, and get a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts

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