Ki Power in the Martial Arts is always considered one of those mysterious magician's tricks. Nobody knows how to do it, let alone explain it, yet ki power, or chi power or qigong or whatever, has grabbed the public imagination.
What is interesting is that using the body martial arts style, there is an automatic influx of energy. Unfortunately, most people do it, never see it, and thus the effects are lost or unappreciated.
In this article I'm going to set forth a couple of rules which should help you generate more ki power. You'll find that understanding what you are doing is going to really enhance your martial arts studies.
When you sink into stance you are attaching your body to the earth. To hold the ground or to launch the body matters not, there is an attachment of the body to the earth, and from this you build your martial arts techniques.
When you sink into stance simply figure out the geometry of the body. The geometry should be based upon a triangle. The tan tien (the 'one point' located a couple of inches below the navel) is the top of the triangle, the feet provide the base.
Doesn't matter what stance - horse stance, back stance, whatever - just examine the triangle and make sure the angles of the triangle are working.
Working means that you are doing two things.
First, breathing as if to the tan tien.
Second, getting the stance lower and lower, so that you feel more weight, and thus create more energy.
Do these two things for a while, breathing and lowering, and you will find the workability of your stance, and ki power will start to invest in your body and manifest in your martial art.
Karate vs Kung Fu vs taekwondo...or whatever...it doesn't matter. The stance is the thing. The art is a stylistic interpretation of the stance...and the tricks mounted upon the stances.
Now, a couple of things to look out for.
Don't turn the feet too far in or two far out, seek an alignment of the feet that supports the intention (direction) of the stance. This can be confusing until you realize the simplicity of function.
Keep the hips inside the feet, lest your triangle topple.
Relax.
Breath in time to your motion. In when the body contracts, out when the body expands.
Do you see how simple these martial arts instructions for generating ki power are? The difficulty lies only in thinking that the stances, which is to say the various postures in the martial arts techniques, are complex, and then having to resolve them by inspection until they are simple and make sense.
Read that last sentence again, it is important, it tells you one of the reasons people insist upon making the martial arts a lo-o-ong subject to study.
The truth of the matter is that the body can be remade in as little as three months, and this includes the ability to make real and usable ki power. Witness the US army boot camp, or even one of the PX 90 infomercial ads on late night TV.
Whether you change the body, and start manufacturing ki power depends not on years of esoteric exercises that you don't understand, but simply resolving the simple stances and techniques and martial arts forms to the principles such as you read here.
For more information, check out this article on Martial Arts Chi Power. Or, if you wish, all the rules that I've hinted at in this article on ki power are actually given in the Master Instructor Course at Monster Martial Arts.
Ki Power in the Martial Arts is always considered one of those mysterious magician's tricks. Nobody knows how to do it, let alone explain it, yet ki power, or chi power or qigong or whatever, has grabbed the public imagination.
What is interesting is that using the body martial arts style, there is an automatic influx of energy. Unfortunately, most people do it, never see it, and thus the effects are lost or unappreciated.
In this article I'm going to set forth a couple of rules which should help you generate more ki power. You'll find that understanding what you are doing is going to really enhance your martial arts studies.
When you sink into stance you are attaching your body to the earth. To hold the ground or to launch the body matters not, there is an attachment of the body to the earth, and from this you build your martial arts techniques.
When you sink into stance simply figure out the geometry of the body. The geometry should be based upon a triangle. The tan tien (the 'one point' located a couple of inches below the navel) is the top of the triangle, the feet provide the base.
Doesn't matter what stance - horse stance, back stance, whatever - just examine the triangle and make sure the angles of the triangle are working.
Working means that you are doing two things.
First, breathing as if to the tan tien.
Second, getting the stance lower and lower, so that you feel more weight, and thus create more energy.
Do these two things for a while, breathing and lowering, and you will find the workability of your stance, and ki power will start to invest in your body and manifest in your martial art.
Karate vs Kung Fu vs taekwondo...or whatever...it doesn't matter. The stance is the thing. The art is a stylistic interpretation of the stance...and the tricks mounted upon the stances.
Now, a couple of things to look out for.
Don't turn the feet too far in or two far out, seek an alignment of the feet that supports the intention (direction) of the stance. This can be confusing until you realize the simplicity of function.
Keep the hips inside the feet, lest your triangle topple.
Relax.
Breath in time to your motion. In when the body contracts, out when the body expands.
Do you see how simple these martial arts instructions for generating ki power are? The difficulty lies only in thinking that the stances, which is to say the various postures in the martial arts techniques, are complex, and then having to resolve them by inspection until they are simple and make sense.
Read that last sentence again, it is important, it tells you one of the reasons people insist upon making the martial arts a lo-o-ong subject to study.
The truth of the matter is that the body can be remade in as little as three months, and this includes the ability to make real and usable ki power. Witness the US army boot camp, or even one of the PX 90 infomercial ads on late night TV.
Whether you change the body, and start manufacturing ki power depends not on years of esoteric exercises that you don't understand, but simply resolving the simple stances and techniques and martial arts forms to the principles such as you read here.
For more information, check out this article on Martial Arts Chi Power. Or, if you wish, all the rules that I've hinted at in this article on ki power are actually given in the Master Instructor Course at Monster Martial Arts.
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