| One of the biggest mysteries come out of the | | | | internal energy flow. Get a pipe and fill it halfway |
| eastern arts is internal energy. Wudan arts, like Pa | | | | with sand. Move that pipe in such a way that |
| Kua Chang and Tai Chi Chuan and Hsing i claim it. | | | | when you stop it all the sand smacks into the side |
| Supposedly it takes lifetimes to create this thing | | | | of the pipe in one mass. |
| called internal energy, but when you get it you | | | | What I have described, with the pipe analogy and |
| can defeat attackers with just a sigh and a wave | | | | drill is what internal energy is and does. It is |
| of the palm. | | | | energy swirled on the inside of your body in such |
| Well, the truth of the matter is that internal | | | | a way that it collects and collides on the inside of |
| energy is in many arts, and if it is not, it can be | | | | the block, or strike, or foot, or whatever, at the |
| put into any art easily. The principles of internal | | | | same time. We used to develop this type of |
| energy, you see, are easy to understand. So if | | | | energy in kang duk won karate all the time, but |
| you study kenpo or tae kwon do, or even | | | | we didn't think of it as internal energy because it |
| boxing, then the door is hereby opened for you, | | | | didn't have any undue significance, it was just the |
| this article is going to lay out those principles and | | | | way we moved. |
| shove you through the door. | | | | It is helpful if you move slowly, focusing |
| It is absolutely vital that you have phenomenal | | | | awareness of the motion of energy inside your |
| basics, not just good, but utterly phenomenal. | | | | body. And, to be truthful, the internal Wudan |
| What this means is that you must drop the | | | | martial arts have arranged their forms so that |
| weight of your body when striking or blocking, | | | | the growth of internal energy is easier. But you |
| and do so with such awareness that you actually | | | | can feel it in Karate, or tae kwon do, or any |
| create an energy beam down your leg. You must | | | | combative method you happen to study, if you |
| arrange the parts of your body so that they | | | | just take the time to appreciate what you are |
| form an unbroken chain for the energy to flow | | | | doing. |
| through, very important that they are relaxed, | | | | The real key is that this method, and, to be |
| because chi will flow easier through a relaxed | | | | truthful, all methods, rely on awareness. It is an |
| body. | | | | idea that moves awareness, and the path of this |
| Now, you must make sure that you move the | | | | awareness can be called Chi, or Ki, or Prana, or |
| parts of your body in a coordinated manner. | | | | pneuma, or intention. Now, the real question here |
| Everything must swing into motion together, and | | | | is whether you can take the time to invest your |
| everything must stop together, this is called | | | | movements with chi, or intention, or whatever |
| Coordinated Body Motion. Inspect the motion of | | | | you want to call it, do you have the patience and |
| your body so that all of the pieces are moving in | | | | the awareness to make something significant out |
| harmony when it swings into alignment. | | | | of your martial art. |
| Now you've got basics, and it is time to make the | | | | |