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The power to destroy, the three types of destructive energy used in martial arts
If one word can sum up what martial arts teach, that is power. The creation and use of energy or energy (chi in Chinese or Ki in Japan) is the main objective of many martial arts. Breathing techniques, weight training, conditioning exercises, drills, forms, nutrition, and meditation are ways to generate and manage energy. All teachers know that there are two forms of energy, yin and yang, the creative and destructive.
The martial arts rightly focus on generating creative energy through fitness, self-discipline and honor. However, a martial artist must also learn to master the dark side of force, the creation and application of destructive energy. The following describes three types of destructive energy, how, where and how apply them in combat.
Penetrating Energy
All techniques hit generate one of three types of destructive energy: penetrating, crushing, and transfer.
Penetrating focus energy strikes generated by the speed in a small area that is toward the body so that the skin and muscles in and are forced sometimes broken by the blow.
Anatomical weapons are energy using the fingertips of penetration and the second knuckle strikes, hitting stab, knife chops Hand and side kicks. Examples of weapons are pervasive energy using the spear, sword and knife.
Strikes piercing is best used with the objectives of the soft tissues, such as groups of nerves, and internal organs. For example, if you were to use a strike Snake Hand (flat outstretched hand using fingers as the striking surface) against the chest of an opponent, he has no chance to penetrate the sternum and a high probability to break fingers. However, if delivered to the throat, is capable of lacerating the larynx or blisters in the carotid artery, both fatal injuries.
To apply the penetrating power needed to focus through the target. For example, a punch in the solar plexus should be focused through the opponent's body, as if trying to strike column instead of in the stomach. This helps neutralize the subconscious tendency to stop the strike as it approaches the goal. A simple way to train and test their strikes penetration is to take an empty cardboard box like the type of TV or microwave came then put on a table and ensure that there is a clear zone of all. Now the box strike with one hand, Snake, Leopard Paw or Phoenix Eye strike. If you can drill boreholes in the cardboard box without flight off the table, will have to master this method.
Grinding Energy
Crushing energy use the mass of the weapon to focus energy on an area larger than the nerves and blood vessels rupture and break bones. Anatomical that use crushing weapons energy include the head butt, elbow and knee strikes, most of the punches and kicks. The energy weapons used include grinding, hammer war-club, clubs, and baseball bats.
Strikes grinding energy is best directed to the less massive than the weapon used. For example, a punch in the nose bridge can be easily crush and break the septal cartilage causing extreme pain and bleeding, but a blow on the forehead, probably break hand the striker instead.
To use the energy of grinding, should participate as much body mass in the strike as possible. To bring the body mass in a technique requires that the center of gravity will move with the impact. For example, in the execution of a Hammer Fist strike clavicle the opponent, you must lower your center of gravity by bending your knees upon impact. This adds to the body mass of the fist. In the drill forward, the legs are used to boost its center of gravity forward after the coup, as if the striker arm in a car and body. The best way to test and train your crushing power is through Deals techniques.
Energy Transfer
A strike using energy transfer causes a concussion, creating a pressure wave that transfers energy directly into the body without penetrating in the outer skin and muscle. This principle can be seen in action at the pool table. Little use of English "(backspin), a signal Ball striking a ball pool still come to a complete stop while the billiard ball rolls away with the momentum of the cue ball had. The ball had transferred all its energy kinetics in the billiard ball. Energy strikes the transfer of work in the same way, the weapon striking the surface stops the opponent's body, but the energy has been transferred in the body as a pressure wave.
Anatomical weapons that use energy transfer are some blows with the palm strikes, and roundhouse kick. Due to the complexity of this technique, a few old weapons used. To some extent, riding crops and whips, as the Nunchakus using energy transfer. A whip, while the reverse movement used to generate an energy wave, the wave focuses on the whip itself to increase speed so that the point becomes a cutting weapon.
A legendary example of a transfer is to strike the "palm strike. The Palmito is executed using the heel of the palm and goes to the center of the chest. Energy is transferred through the chest wall and into the heart's pacemaker located just behind the breastbone. A pacemaker is a polarized magnetic patch of tissue that regulates the heartbeat. As an iron nail that has been given a magnetic charge (rubbing with a magnet), a brutal shock, like dropping the nail causes the nail to lose its charge. Thus the pacemaker can also lose its magnetic charge through a sudden shock. This can result in a contraction of the heart muscle (ventricular fribulation) and eventually to cardiac arrest if not treated immediately. On the surface, there is no sign of injury because the energy has been transferred through the surface to cause internal damage.
To request the transfer of a strike should incorporate a reverse movement by developing the technique again in the strike just before impact. This can be compared with a whip in order to "crack the whip be withdrawn just before the end of the swing. This pulling back, it is best to use waist and silk thread is called in Chinese styles. For example, to add energy shock to hit back, hips must first pass before throwing the weight of the body in the coup, but just before impact, the hips shift back to kinetic energy after the shock travels into the goal, but not fist.
To train and test you concussion strikes, set a candle on a table, cleaning the area and be prepared for hot wax splashed across the room. Goal strike a blow or palm directly in the flame, but sure to stop about an inch away from the flame. Done correctly, the flame is extinguished with a slight crack. Done properly, and that usually have a mess to clean.
Conclusion
These three destructive forces have been used in the war from the earliest time. The spear, club and corruption are probably the first to invented weapons used these three forces. Even modern warfare employs these venerable principles. For example, to neutralize the army developed armored vehicles three weapons. SBOT round, which Sharp is a hard projectile with depleted uranium, designed to penetrate the armor of the vehicle. The HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) round uses high explosive to crush a car, and the Bazooka or Panzerfaust outmoded uses the principle of transfer to take off from a crust of amour inner lining sending rolls of metal bouncing inside the vehicle.
The martial arts teach not only how to develop strength and power, but knowledge and ability to deliver the three types of destructive energy to their appropriate targets. A team of kick in the solar plexus (Penetration) a hammer fist to the brachial plexus (shredding), or a palm strike to the forehead (concussion), often immediately call an attacker unconscious while causing him or her any harm. Thus, even the dark side of force can be used for good, to protect you and your family, and cause least amount of damage in return.
About the Author
Stefan Verstappen is a writer and martial arts practitioner who has lived and traveled throughout the Far East. He is a frequent contributor for Black Belt, and Inside Kung Fu Magazine and author of , The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China, Blind Zen, Little Warriors and Chinese Business Etiquette.
Author’s website: www.chinastrategies.com
You can e-mail Stefan with questions and comments to sverstappen@yahoo.com
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