When we participate in activities like karate and tai kwon do, we are enriching ourselves through physical and mental activity and discipline.
The first thing about martial arts
is that they are based off of the chinese system of medicine. This
system has been well aware of things that chiropractors and sports
physiotherapists are just starting to learn about the human nervous
system and spinal cord, meditative benefits, and muscle/tendon
functional excellence. Like gymnasts and dancers, internal arts
practitioners do difficult and challenging exercises, drills, and forms
in order to literally change their body’s metabolism, balance,
structure, tendon strength, speed and flexibility.
The more serious one is with their body changing training, the more
results they will see. Doing Tai Chi once per week without the requisite
secrets is not good enough. At first this training is extremely
difficult, just as jogging is extremely difficult for the beginner. But
after years of practice, the internal martial artist’s body starts to
change, and they start to see the health and martial benefits as they
begin to move as a functional unit and cease using “awkward force”. They
also get damaged less often in hard martial arts
sparring. This body changing also includes tendon conditioning, thus
making an internal artist “seem” stronger as they move as a more
functional unit.
With this body changing, and two person “push”, “search”, or “sticky”
hands practice, practitioners become more sensitive to the movements of
others, and by using this sensitivity, internal martial artists can use
a foe’s force against them by placing them off balance. And by using
friction, the practitioner can deliver more kinetic energy per second
than a straight punch. All boxers know that more friction means more
damage, so too does this apply to throws and arm drags. The more
friction when throwing an opponent, the more kinetic energy you deliver
into them, the faster they hit the ground. Also, using friction properly
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