{"id":7392,"date":"2021-12-01T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2022-03-01T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:21:16","slug":"wonders-and-mysteries-of-chinese-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontow.com\/2021\/12\/wonders-and-mysteries-of-chinese-martial-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonders and Mysteries of Chinese Martial Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Internal and external components of Chinese martial arts:<\/strong><\/span> There is an internal component and there is an external component of Chinese martial arts. Internal component talks about Qi, some sort of bio-electric energy that circulates throughout the body. With proper training, one can build up and guide this Qi to circulate in one\u2019s body. Practicing and building up this Qi to certain parts of your body can strengthen the power that you can exert externally and also increase your capacity to absorb the power of a strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But how this is done is mysterious, although most important. However, because I am not sure that today there is a good simple scientific explanation of the internal aspects of Chinese martial arts that is more or less universally accepted, I will not discuss this further here, except that I will refer to two sample videos that demonstrate the internal powers of Chinese martial arts. [1] [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The external component of Chinese martial arts can be understood in terms of physics and mathematics:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you defend against an attack, you don\u2019t block the attack head-on, because then whoever is stronger wins. Instead, you yield to the attacking force by complementing it with a small force along the same direction and simultaneously add a small force perpendicular to the attacking force. The former yields and gets your opponent off balance, and the latter, even a small force, will deflect the attacking force, because there is no force of your opponent in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the essence of the classic saying \u201cfour ounces can deflect a thousand pounds\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you sense that your opponent is losing balance, you change direction by applying a force opposite to the direction of your opponent\u2019s original direction of attack. This changes you from defense to offense, as illustrated by the Taiji symbol of constant change: <\/p>\n\n\n\n