The Final Frontier in the Martial Arts!
[I:http://mymartialartsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/AlCase0.jpg]The deadliest tool I know, in the martial arts, is also the one least used. I am talking about the actual and effective use of space. Space, if properly understood and utilized, can win any fight.
Space is emptiness, is nothing, is the absence of object. Space is also the greatest conductor of visual perception, just ask any light beam. Space is zen and not understood by most martial artists.
The distance between your opponent and you is what space is. If you can control space, the space between you and your opponent, you can control any fight. When it comes to fighting, this should always be the first strategy.
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 hitting in a negative you are utilizing space. Simply, by throwing the mass of the body, by taking energy out of your strike, by being unaffected by energy and emotion (emotion contains, and can stop, a high degree of energy) you can strike ten times harder. Simply, throw your body at your opponent as if it is nothing but an object.
If you understand the space created by not having consideration for your opponent, then you will understand the space of the last paragraph. This is what I used to call The Dead Strike. Simply, there was no consideration for life when I threw the object and mass of my body at somebody.
The most important space is the space of your thoughts. Thoughts don’t occupy space, so you should concentrate your efforts not on moving by muscle, but on moving by thought. By reducing muscular effort and moving by thought, you will be able to move far faster than you ever thought possible.
Thought, the real final frontier. The source of all motion. Relax, create space, and have thought, that is the Ultimate Secret of the True Martial Arts.
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