The Ultimate Tool in the Martial Arts!
The least used tool in the martial arts is the deadliest tool I know. Space, actually using it, is what I am talking about here. Space can win any fight, if properly understood and utilized.
Space is the absence of objects, is emptiness, is nothing. You will find, if you just ask any light beam, that space is the greatest conductor of visual perception. A very zen thing, space is not understood by most martial artists.
Space is the distance between you and your opponent. If you can control the space between you and your opponent, you can control the fight. This is the first strategy in any fight.
Space is the perception of your body. This is important if you realize that by relaxing you can perceive more, and thereby create more space. If you can create more space in this manner, you can create more potential for motion.
When you execute a negative strike you are utilizing space. By being unaffected by energy and emotion (emotion contains, and can stop, a high degree of energy), by throwing the mass of the body, by taking energy out of your strike, your strike will be ten times harder. Simply, treat your body as if it is nothing but an object, and throw it at your opponent.
If you understand the space of the last paragraph, then you will understand the space created by not having consideration for your opponent. This particular strike, incidentally, I used to call The Dead Strike. Simply, when I threw the object and mass of my body at somebody there was no consideration for life.
Your thoughts are the most important space. Because thoughts don't occupy space Concentrate your efforts on moving by thought, not on moving by muscle. If you do this you will be able to move far faster than if you moved by muscular effort alone.
The real final frontier is thought. Thought is the source of all motion. Create space, relax, and have thought, and you will have the Ultimate Secret of the True Martial Arts.
About the Author:
Al Case has dissected the martial arts for 40 years. The Space Inside his Brain is available at Monster Martial Arts.
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