World Of Swords

When Morpheus (Laurence Fishburn), held up a battery in the Matrix movie and told Neo what a person was, we all gasped. When Stephen King had people hung on the wall to be batteries, we shivered. Fiction aside, if you practice Martial Arts Flux theory you will realize that the human body really is nothing but a big battery.

It is a tube of flesh, and it makes energy. It is a chemical maker and it stores energy. And if one studies Flux Theory in the martial arts this becomes very functional.

You see the storage system stores not just energy, it stores glitches and mistakes. What are the mistakes I speak of? Breaking your bones, colds and flus, or any other oddity that tends to stop, alter, or disrupt the normal flow of energy.

I noticed, when I used to get colds, that during the life of the cold there would come a time when I experienced an event at the end of the illness that was the same as an event at the beginning of the illness. I would get a feeling, a shiver, a cough, an ache in a bone, or something weird, that started or was present at the beginning of the cold, and I would experience that same thing when the cold was ending. In other words, something came into my body...and it went out of my body.

The body is a universe separate unto itself, and a cold, or other sickness, or even physical breakage, would travel into that universe, and then it would travel out. It would be a like a meteor floating through the solar system. The meteor (cold) would disrupt the normal pull between the objects of the universe on the way in, and on the way out.

Now, if I was to practice nothing but a yang system, hard energy, as in Karate or boxing, or any other attack oriented system, then I never would have noticed this phenomena. Doing things with positive energy tends to keep awareness separate from the phenomena. Putting energy out on a regular basis, with no inward flow, holds the system in stasis and allows for none of the particular perception required to see the phenomena.

But when I started doing martial arts, like Yang Tai Chi, that require that I take in and cycle energy, as opposed to just exploding it, then I noticed this happening. A simplistic way of looking at this oddity would be to say that I allowed the energy of my body to cycle through illness and injury. Thus, what went into the body was allowed to leave the body.

In summation, your body may be a battery, but it doesn't have to be one. Through martial arts practice you can change the energy flow of your body, and release the glitches and problems it encounters, and has encountered in the past. To do this you need only practice martial arts, and to understand this and speed up the process you need only look into such things as Matrixing, Neutronics, and Flux Theory.

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This is going to be the oddest article on tai chi you have ever read. I've never had a lesson in the art of Tai Chi Chuan, you see, but my tai chi is the best. I don't mean to be self serving, but let us see if you can argue with me after you have read how I came up with my tai chi.

I began learning tai chi out of a book, Modified Tai Chi for Health by Lee Ying Arng, back in 1976. Every night I spent hours going over the form, trying to figure out how to apply it, trying to figure out the meaning. And, to behonest, it didn't mean much.

So I went through books by Chen Man Ching, and I read Chen and Yang and Wu and Sun, but they all spoke this gobbledegook that didn't make sense. So I began doing my Karate, I had near ten years experience in Kang Duk Won karate, and the thing started to resolve. I was using good, old karate power to juice up the form, and it worked, and then I was able to make what was happening into Tai Chi power.

More important, I was throwing out all the mysticism and bushwah philosophy I read in the books and using something called physics. The martial arts, you see, as transmitted with eastern methodology, are taught through the memorization of random strings of data. In physics you look for a reason, and you find a logic, and you look for a concept.

Now, ancient stories claim tai chi was created in a dream by san feng after he watched a bird and a snake fight. Or, it was started by a general in a village, who was retired from war and wanted to make up games for the children. Neither of these concepts have much verifiable validity, but we can't just discount them out of hand.

Maybe the general in Chen village couldn't do the martial arts the way they should be done, and maybe he actually came up with something unique. And the vision of the snake and the crane, though I am a true believer in physics I would not speak ill of visions, for visions are the dreams and inspiration of the human race. Still, whether rehabilitation of the broken warrior, or the stuff of dreams, tai chi does not make sense without the application of physics.

So I want you to get a book on physics. Make it a simple book, with big, simple illustrations. It would really help if you found a simple one describing a motor.

Now, read that book, and start asking yourself what terms are the same as in tai chi. Rooting is grounding, where is the generator, and so on. Do that, and when the face and guts of your tai chi chuan start to alter, do not come whining to me.

Al Case has studied martial arts 4O years. He began Tai Chi Chuan in 1974, became a writer for the mags in 1981, and originated Matrixing Technolgy, which is the study of physics in the martial arts. You can get a free ebook on Matrixing at Monster Martial Arts.