subject: Using Flux Theory To Understand Levels And Types Of Fah Jing In The Martial Arts [print this page] In the martial arts Fah Jing is explosive power. Most people experience this in such arts as Karate or taekwon do or kenpo, but on a very limited basis.
The procedure is very simple: drop the weight and let the energy explode from the tan tien. Dropping the weight causes energy to surge up the legs and into the tan tien. I actually came up with a formula for this: weight equals energy equals work.
This simple dropping of weight, however, only creates an explosion. If you take a look at some of the internal arts, such as Pa Kua or tai chi, then you will see the slow motion results in a slower transference of weight up the leg, and thus a slower burn of energy in the tan tien. When the energy burns slower the martial artist has more time to look at it, and more time to figure out how to control it, and can find different configurations of energy to create.
So in Karate you create an explosion. In Kung Fu you create a slightly slower explosion, and can take the time to whirlwind the arms. This is the windmill circling motion which yet manages to tap into the slower explosion of the tan tien.
When you do Pa Kua, you spiral the whole body. No windmill here, but the screwing of energy up and out the limbs. This screwing of energy can result in very dense amounts of energy stored into the arms, which energy can be used in a variety of ways.
When you do Tai chi you use something I call suspended energy. The tai chi student is suspending the weight of his body, this causes a slow burn. This slow burn is quite interesting, because the student is now using his arms to crate a motor of sorts between his limbs and his tan tien.
Thus, there is extra energy on certain levels for wudan martial artists because of this suspended energy. How far it goes is not estimable on a physics level, however, for the student should be concentrating on making his motions effortless, which, once he succeeds, results in phenomena only able to be defined by flux theory.
At any rate, that is the breakdown of flux theory and fah jing, or any type of energy, in the martial arts. Drop the weight, or drop it slowly and learn how to control it. Dont just explode mindlessly, learn how to write geometric configurations of energy in the space about you.
