Rec and Sports

Using Space to Beat your Opponent!

[I:http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/extras/pics/bowzerimage0.jpg]The least used tool in the martial arts is the deadliest tool I know. Space, actually using it, is what I am talking about here. Space can win any fight, if properly understood and utilized.

Space is the absence of objects, is emptiness, is nothing. You will find, if you just ask any light beam, that space is the greatest conductor of visual perception. A very zen thing, space is not understood by most martial artists.

Space is the distance between your opponent and you. You can control the fight If you can control the space between you and your opponent. In any fight this should 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 of the last paragraph, then you will understand the space created by not having consideration for your opponent. This particular strike, incidentally, I used to call The Dead Strike. Simply, when I threw the object and mass of my body at somebody there was no consideration for life.

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.

The real final frontier is thought. Thought is the source of all motion. Create space, relax, and have thought, and you will have the Ultimate Secret of the True Martial Arts.