Ed Ladnar wrote:What an awesome thread. I'd love to see more of these kinds of discussions. If we discussed more the actual experiences we are having with training, we might be able to develop a more accurate vocabulary to describe them. What do you think it means to open a kua over your back and close the other kua down with dantien? If we are to assume that there is a physical reality underlying these concepts, what does that look like? More importantly, what does that feel like?
For starters
To Wiesiek:
No.... Nothing is " higher" that would be a failure.
Ed,
This is ALL..... about physical reality using a chaining of tissues throughout the body manipulated by the mind to move differently than is normal. It makes massive force.
A bit about force:
These forces stay within the body and act to generate it within a neutrality. In other words, while making massive displacement, nothing leaves you. As for uses? If I can't or couldn't use this to fight, I wouldn't bother with it, only later did I understand it is a superior and healthier way to live in my body.
Force going
through tissue has an effect
on that tissue. The directions involved get cleaner and clearer as you train. If guided properly: knees, hips, and shoulder act as
supports in translating forces vertically and rotationally. The major muscles generate a clean force, the arms direct that force, not generate it. It is why your shoulders and arms are so little. Generating forces that stay inside of you and manipulate through bowing and rotating create a very stable platform that is highly resistant to being messed with. It wants to maintain those paths of power. Even when hitting and kicking the power stays inside. When applying weight on others, it never really left you.
In not understanding how to use their hips, normal martial artists swing their mass, launching punches and kicks from hips. Not having a dantien: they really can't address how power coming
through the hips aided by rotation is used in conjunction with dantien and waste and back, rather then laterally translating forces and throwing it out. Even
hip swinging rotation suffers loss and stresses the knees.
There is a massive tissue displacement that can take place from feet to head that supports the arms that can only reach its fullest capacity going through kua and having a joined rotational values with dantien, back and waist.
As far as outside movement goes, when it is clean, those who know how it is done can see it. In fact you can't hide it. Many times you reveal yourself walking into a room, even before engaging any one. Then once met, you know in an instant when you feel somebody
how they generate their power and where their holes are (no, I am not talking about fighting ability, that's different topic).