The Secret Of The Cruel Traps Of The Martial Arts And Fah Jing

I’m going to tell you about Fah Jing, and Matrix Martial Arts, and what it really is, but to do so I have to push your face into one of the cruel traps of the martial arts. This cruel trap has bedeviled martial artists since forever, and it really is time to break out of the trap. It is time to find out what holds up the progress of the martial arts, makes them long and hard to learn, and makes them even ineffective.

The cruel trap I am referring to is the lack of adequate language. This trap comes in two parts, yet is easily broken. The strength to pick up a dictionary, however, is more than many students have.

Many martial arts instructors arrive in this country, and they don’t always speak the language of the people they wish to teach. Thus, the students are stuck with memorizing words which are poorly understood. Thus, the student must learn not just the surface meaning of a martial arts word, but the reality behind the word.

The second specific, in this matter of languages, is that ancient languages do not describe a science. But the martial arts are a science, and they must be understood as such. To demonstrate this concept, let’s consider Fah Jing.

Fah Jing is a term that means explosive power. But from where does the explosion emanate, and how do you channel the explosion, and what do you do with it? Simple practice will show you, but it takes ten times longer to understand, and it would take ten times shorter to understand if the language was scientific.

Pretend the arm is a hollow tube. Take a firm stance and move the tube so that energy shifts the length of the tube and impacts upon the far end. This is Fahjing.

Now explore the physics involved in this concept. What kind of relaxation is necessary to enable you to move the tube in the correct manner, so that energy traverses the length of the tube. How is the tube connected to the body, and how must you move the body so as to best and most efficiently move the tube?

When you get past the inadequate language, and the words that were formulate by an ancient culture, but which lack technological relativity, you will find that arts like tai chi open up like the doors of heaven. It is physics, you see, that will enable you to delve into and make sense of the mystical arts, and to truly delve deep into them. It is the subject of physics that we endeavor to apply when we Matrix Martial Arts.

Al Case has practiced Tai Chi Chuan more than 35 years. You can find out more about his scientific methods at Five Army Tai Chi Chuan.