Zhong_Kui wrote:<snip>
The thickest tendon, both in absolute size and relative to the cross-sectional area of its muscle, belongs to semitendinosus, a red muscle with prolonged postural activity (Elliott and Crawford, 1965 a). This suggests that the duration of muscle tension might be important factor in the growth of tendon thickness...
That's way too much info for me
But then again I'm lazy. Suffice to say that by saying fascia is the key to becoming n3j1a g0D...means that you want to concentrate on letting a certain stretch of the body prop the body up, move the body, and other wise keep extraneous muscular tension from getting in the way of the stretch.
That being said, the above is a crappy explanation, and ultimately needs to be shown.
For those that do reverse breathing crap for development, its the same stretchy feeling that drives hands upwards on an inhale, and then pulls them towards the body on the exhale.
The book Turning Silk actually covers these facets pretty well, better than other books I've seen. If it were simply the tendons that get developed, it doesn't explain why the "skin" seems to get thicker with years of practice. Even Ark himself has a skill where his skin turn rock hard like a statue, but he isn't stiff (IE the muscles aren't really tensed to the degree you'd expect). When I asked him about it, he simply said it was "kin-maku" or "muscle-membrane." (Note: Ark is not on the fascia bandwagon, the comment about kin-maku is something he learned from his own teacher...which implies that people before have kicked this idea around as well...ie nothing's new under the sun)