The Ultimate Tool in the Martial Arts!
Space is nothing, is emptiness, is the absence of objects. Just ask any light beam and you will find that space is also the greatest conductor of visual perception. Space is not understood by most martial artists, and it is very…zen.
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.
When you think about it, you’ll realize that when you perceive your body you perceive space. Thus, by relaxing you can can see more, and this means that you are actually creating more space, and this is crucially important in the martial arts. You will have a vastly greater potential for motion if you create space in this manner.
Space is utilized when hitting in a negative fashion. Simply, by taking energy out of your strike, and throwing the mass of the body, unaffected by energy and emotion (emotion contains, and can stop, a high degree of energy) you can strike ten times harder. Simply, consider your body an object and throw it at your opponent, and let it strike.
The space of the last paragraph is the space created by not having consideration for your opponent. I used to call this The Dead Strike. Not because it caused death, but because 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.