The martial arts are a great tool of personal discipline, fitness and purpose. As an instructor it is my pleasure to publish yet another lesson. All teachings are purposely expand into life lessons for today's dark and tumultuous times. Taekwondo is my chosen field of martial arts. The art of hand and foot has been a mainstay foundation. This lesson covers your expended energy. Learning and mastering energy can be critical in not only personal physical protection but also alleviating life burdens we place on ourselves.
As you can see in this riveting high quality picture there is a transparent rectangular box. This box represents the maximum area that you need to concentrate on to protect your vital parts. This means that for most any high blocks, low blocks and middle blocks your hands should almost never rest beyond these boundaries. When your motion is complete you should be well within this area.
The reasoning behind this defined area is maximizing the best use of energy. All motion, and even thought, uses energy. In regards to thought, it is prudent to exercise and produce a pristine quality of cognitive abilities with focus as a foremost priority. By doing so you will be using your energies in a direction of your own well being and protection instead of wandering your thoughts in diverse paths. Thinking about the movie last night or what dinner will be tonight is a wasteful use of your brain power in situations of choice affecting your life.
There are obvious reasons in the realm of personal physical protection. It is natural to those new or untrained to overextend or overly exaggerate a block technique. This often lands your hands in areas way outside the focus of a vital organ, knee, elbow or joint. Extending a block just 6" beyond what is needful exacerbates the strain of early fatigue by a factor of 10. This can be critical in your happiness at the end of the trial!
Disciplining the mind and body to focus your energies to stay within the Bounds of Protection is among the best lessons to learn. There are facets of life that can benefit from this lesson. Logical thinking will direct your choices toward end results for your long term benefit. These choices will inherently create lasting happiness to you and those around you. This is the doctrine of energy. Correct personal choices will have a positive affect in the long term. This affect will always have a cascading wake that multiplies in ways you cannot know or dream of.
The martial arts is much less fighting than it is learning how best to positively influence the world around you.
A disciplined thinking will also help prevent you from taking on too many activities or responsibilities. Excess tasks divide your attention and inevitably lead to unwise decisions and mental confusion. Things that should have priority focus and undivided attention will now have a fraction of that.
Learn the Bounds of Protection. This area of energy expenditure should represent not only personal physical protection, but also illustrates a focused boundary of life energy - your choices.
As you can see in this riveting high quality picture there is a transparent rectangular box. This box represents the maximum area that you need to concentrate on to protect your vital parts. This means that for most any high blocks, low blocks and middle blocks your hands should almost never rest beyond these boundaries. When your motion is complete you should be well within this area.
There are obvious reasons in the realm of personal physical protection. It is natural to those new or untrained to overextend or overly exaggerate a block technique. This often lands your hands in areas way outside the focus of a vital organ, knee, elbow or joint. Extending a block just 6" beyond what is needful exacerbates the strain of early fatigue by a factor of 10. This can be critical in your happiness at the end of the trial!
Disciplining the mind and body to focus your energies to stay within the Bounds of Protection is among the best lessons to learn. There are facets of life that can benefit from this lesson. Logical thinking will direct your choices toward end results for your long term benefit. These choices will inherently create lasting happiness to you and those around you. This is the doctrine of energy. Correct personal choices will have a positive affect in the long term. This affect will always have a cascading wake that multiplies in ways you cannot know or dream of.
The martial arts is much less fighting than it is learning how best to positively influence the world around you.
A disciplined thinking will also help prevent you from taking on too many activities or responsibilities. Excess tasks divide your attention and inevitably lead to unwise decisions and mental confusion. Things that should have priority focus and undivided attention will now have a fraction of that.
Learn the Bounds of Protection. This area of energy expenditure should represent not only personal physical protection, but also illustrates a focused boundary of life energy - your choices.
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