How to Have Perfect Form
It was Gichin Funakoshi who said: the way, straight and true, who will pass it on? Actually, The Way is now easily mastered, and it is easily passed on. The key to this statement lies in good, old, hard core physics.
When karate was given to the world by Japan, it was taught in the old way, memorizing random techniques, and eventually bringing the student to intuition. Though this method works, it is an amazingly inadequate way to teach. The best way to impart the knowledge of the martial arts is through giving the student a solid base in physics.
Physics is the method of measuring the universe. It is not a mystical practice, yet, when understood, physics can actually lead to the understanding of such things as Chi. I should expound upon that, however, by saying that the subject of Chi is representative of a second set of physics, physics of the mind and spirit, which are above the physics of the physical universe.
The secret of physics is that the universe can be described accurately. With physics there can be no junk science in the martial arts, such as the kind you will see in TV infomercials. Junk science is actually the beginning of mysticism...how big is that pill going to make you?
The key to this can be seen when one does as simple an act as aligning a tire. When an out of alignment tire is spun, it will wobble, and this is out of true. When an aligned tire is spun it will not wobble, and this is in true.
Now you have to ask yourself...what is it about your martial art form that wobbles? An obvious wobble would be the wrist breaking when punching. Another obvious wobble is when a student's buttocks wiggle when he punches, which is just out of alignment and a waste of energy, no matter how good it feels.
The trick of finding out what wobbles in the martial arts can occupy one for a lifetime. One must watch the body, see it in pictures, examine it in a mirror, observe it in technique, have others see it, and make sufficient sense out of the input to de-wobble it. You must do your techniques slowly, plant and push style, searching for the most efficient paths and means of resistance within the body.
Ultimately, the fact of physics will bring one to the true art. And the study of physics on the body level will lead one to a higher level of physics. On this higher level of physics you will find The Path of The True Martial Art.
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