subject: The Secret Of The Cruel Traps Of Fah Jing And Tai Chi Chuan [print this page] I'm going to tell you about Fah Jing, and Matrix Martial Arts, and what these things really mean, but to do so I have to push your face into one of the cruel traps of the martial arts. This cruel trap has caused misery to 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 difficult 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 come to this country, and they don't always speak the language of the people they wish to teach. Thus, the students are left with memorizing terms which are poorly understood. Thus, the student must learn not just the surface meaning of a term, but the reality behind the term.
The second item, in this matter of languages, is that ancient languages do not describe a technology. But the martial arts are a technology, and they must be understood as such. To demonstrate this idea, let's consider Fah Jing.
Fah Jing translates as explosive power. But where does the explosion come from, 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 learn, and it would take ten times shorter to learn if the language was adequate and scientific.
Picture the arm as a hollow tube. Take a firm stance and shift the tube so that energy traverses the length of the tube and impacts upon the far end. This is what Fahjing is.
Now explore the physics involved in this action. What kind of relaxation is necessary to enable you to move the tube 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 so as to best and most efficiently move the energy?
When you get past the misunderstood language, and the terms that might mean something to an ancient culture, but which lack scientific relativity, you will find that tai chi, and other arts, open up like the doors of heaven. It is physics, you see, that will enable you to master the mystical arts, and to truly delve deep into them. It is physics that we study and master when we Matrix Martial Arts.
