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WORLD Acudo Camp 2009
WORLD
Acudo Camp 2009
The Sience of Acupuncture points used in Martial Arts
Martial Art Theory
Chinese philosophy and martial arts
Chinese philosophy
• Some important consepts:
–Qi
–Yin-yang
Qi
• Descrives both:
– Movement
– Force
• Example
– A forward movement is qi forward
– A backward movement is qi backward
– A sidewards movement is qi to the side
All movements is a manifestation of qi!
Push and pull
– You push me (Yang)
• I will pull you (Yin)
– You pull me (Yin)
• I will push you (Yang)
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Pull Push
Push and pull
– You push me (Yang) I will pull you (Yin)
– You pull me (Yin) I will push you (Yang)
Pull Push
Will Push or Pull make him fall?
Never meet qi with qi!
Or like this?
Be realistic!
Some got natural talents
Some don´t
IT IS A REASON WHY WE HAVE
• Wight divisions
• Age divisions
• Gender divisions
丹田- Dantian • A point for meditation
–內家 (Nei jia) internal focus • Tai chi chuan
• A physical center of gravity located in the abdomen
–外家 (Wai jia) external focus • Most martial arts
丹田- Dantian Location
• The upper dantian is in the brain
– A point directly between the eyebrows an behind
• The middle dantian is in the heart
• The lower dantian is located just below the navel – Also named in Japanese as 腹 hara or chinese as 复 fù (mage)
– The physical center of gravity of the human body
– Alle fysiske handlinger kommer fra 腹, nedre dantian
Classical lower Dantian
Lower Dantian The closer to the ground the firmer you stand
Falls easily Stands Firm
Center of Gravity and Lower diantian
The center of gravity moves within the body
- Centre of gravity moves on the line of gravity
- Therefore: 1. Need to find the line
2. Place the centre low on it
3. Put the center point under yourself
Line - and Centre of Gravity
• This is qi
– We use it to balance
– You use it to manipulate us
Line of gravity - Got it?
Sure…?
Natural curves Create the Center line
Line of gravity and Center point
Example 2 - Thight If center of gravity is outside red you fall
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Example 3 - front
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Example 4 – Horse stand If center of gravity is outside red you fall
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Example 5 - Wide
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The Gravity is the essence
当て身, Atemi in Martial arts
• Atemi is not use of chokes, throws or bends
• Atemi is a manipulation of nerves and acupuncture points
– Through pressure, strike or kick
• Popular name kyusho jitsu
Three prinsiples of
崩し大全/くずし - Kuzushi • Direct action
– Push or pull to make a movement
• Use of action
– Use the movement of opponent
• Invert direct action
– Counter strike
• Atemi helps to preform kuzushi – Improves the sucsess rate
• Within Judo kuzushi have turned from atemi to Tai sabaki (body position) and movement of uke – To be eble to throw an opponent you need to break the line of gravity
– Atemi is an effective way aid the breaking
• Kuzushi is normally not practiced
• Kuzushi is timing and atemi the way
Line of gravity and kuzushi
• The lower center of gravity, the bigger circle
Training of kuzushi • First: Uke have to move naturally
• Second: Tori have to place uke or him self in the wanted position
• Kuzushi will go more easy if tori uses atemi
• Kuzushi can not be learned through a book
• Tori have to experience the arrival of kuzushi
打ち込み Uchi komi
• Repeate a movement within a technique – Often used to drill throwing techniques
• Uchi komi gives speed and automatization
• The problem is that kuzushi often is forgotten
– The technique is thereby useless
• Last untill the technique has landed.
• Kuzushi in uchi komi is elegant
They all need
Balance of yin/ yang Controlled qi
Most important joints
Coordinate
– Distance between feets
– A low center of gravity
The Ability to controll movement qi
• Most important – The general body
– Center of gravity
– Line of gravity
– Point of gravity
Line of gravity
• Your body will search for it automatically,
or fall… The balance of yin-yang
The Feet movement qi
Low center of gravity gives stability, but it also makes you slow
Core facts of movement qi
• Builded through: 1. Distance between legs!!! 2. Movements of knees and hips 3. The persons weight
• Perfect stability
– FS= CGx2 • CG: Center of gravity FS: Foot stand • Example: CG 50 cm and FS 1 m • Same distance = bad balance
You become slow when: - Stand Low - Kick high
You have to:
1. Find a sufficient stable stand
2. Use low targets
Find a good position!
Yin/ yang
A metaphor for Categorization
Yin yang
Activity Yin Yang
Speed Slow Fast
Body Back Lower parts Inside Feets
Front Upper parts Outside Hands
Power Mush Little
Analysis through yin-yang
• Yin - yang is a categorization prinsiple
• Gives info about movements
• Tells what meridians is active
– Example hit:
• A arm is stretched – YANG movement
• Yang meridians is active
• Use points on the side they have most qi
• After the movement will the yin meridians activates
Feet and hand
Hand move fast - YANG
Weak - YIN
Feet move slow - YIN
Strong - YANG
Tao of Breaking
• Formula: – Force= Mass x Acceleration/ Qi = yin x yang
– Example • 65 km/h in kick (Bill Wallence 96 km/h)
• 20 kg mass in foot
• Force: 1300 kg or 12.740 Newton
• Bone resist 40 times better than bricks – Can break all sorts of things
– Speed is enough to break
• Max velocity of arm when 80% extended
Force in a fist • Speed of fist: –Beginning students can punch at 22 km/h –Black belts can punch at 50 km/h
• Splitting a concrete slab 2,5 cm thick takes
only 1,900 newtons or 194 kg
What would you like to meet?
• Speed
100 km/h
10 km/h
Or would you like to meet?
• Mass
100 km/h
10 km/h
• Bone adapts to the loads under which it is placed – The bone will remodel itself to become
stronger or weaker.
• Stress attracts calcium to surrounding bones –A protective measure – The complete bone get tougher and stronger
Wolffs Law
Bone facts
• Bone can withstand: – 40 times more force than concrete – A bone less than 2,5 cm in diameter and 15 cm long can
withstand: • A force of more than 25,000 Newtons or 2.551 kg!
– An elephant weigth about 4000 kg » A bone can stand a soft step of an elephant
• A foot can absorb 2,000 times as much force as concrete
before breaking
Essensen behind breaking
• Do not forget: – The moving hand generates force
– The stationary brick do not generates any force
• Never forget: – A stationary hand generate no force
– Drop a brick on it and it breaks
The Most common problem of breaking
• Bouncing off the board
• Two root causes – Standing in the wrong distance from the board
• Normally to close
– Recoiling too early • Do not accelerate through the board
• Looses energy
• Caused by fear
First aid
• How to recuperate a fainted person
Three ways of fainthing - TIL • Trauma
–Brain moves after a trauma to the head
• Impuls overload
• Lack of oxygen
Acudo Recuperation
• If Trauma knock out:
– Lay the person down
» Feet up
– Hold the neck stable
– Press du26
–Massage pericardium 6
Three ways of fainthing - TIL
• Trauma
• Impuls overload • A strong signal in the nervoussystem
– Short circuit
– Impuls overload
– Imbalance in the nervoussystem
• Lack of oxygen
Acudo Recuperation
• If nerve knock out: – Sit the person down
» Crossed feet
– Hit SJ16 with flat hand!
» Left - right
» Aim upwards
– Hit b15 with flat hand 3-5 x
– Massage neck
Advaced selection
• Hit the aspect that correspond to the acupuncture point used
• Procedure
– Find the nerve
– Hit the sone for that nerve
Acudo Recuperation
• If nerve knock out: – Look at nerve hitted – Hit the sone indicated
» Red • c5-c6
» Yellow • c8
» Blue • c7 – c8
Three ways of fainthing - TIL
• Trauma
• Impuls overload
• Lack of oxygen – Lack of oxygen to the brain
Acudo Recuperation
• If Oxygen knock out: – Lay the person down
» Feet up
– Give air
– Calm down the person
– Shake the feets light
– Hit Kidney 1
