Martial Arts Research

The goal of this wiki is to create a comprehensive scientific body of martial arts theory which is rationaly coherent and provable.

Please feel free to add your two cents, (hopefully much more).

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Strategy

It is fundamental to the study of combat to have an understanding of what your strategic goals are. Any study of martial techniques and tactics might be in vain or worse, counterproductive if it does not help to achieve these.

Due to the overwhelming variety of martial arts and martial sports it would not be unusual to conclude that combat strategy is a matter of philosophy; that needn't be the case. It is possible to illustrate that certain strategic approaches are better than others at achieving various combat objectives. To help illuminate this, I have posed some Strategy Questions, I invite you to provide some answers to them. Along with these strategic questions, it can help to analyze sport martial arts rules(1? 2?) to find out which strategies are deliberatly avoided!

Principles

Regardless of strategy or tactics, the study of physics and human physiology will help achieve optimal martial peformance.

Balance

Newton's first law of mechanics governs every move we make, literally. What are the implications of this to efficient movement? More balance analysis of Upright Balance and Locomotion.

The section on Full Body Motion will anaylze how to use your entire body to achieve your movement goals. Along with balance this leads to the study of various movement principals such as Pendulous Motion.

Striking

What makes a powerfull strike? How can we train to improve our strikes?

• Collisions and Impact: Some thoughts about momentum and speed
• To Bounce or not To Bounce: Some thoughts about the types of collisions.

Help Needed - While most things here are in need of contributions, I am trying to formulate some new ideas on how Throwing relates to striking. I could use some help answering some questions.

Scientific Analysis

• The Chi Argument
• Common Ground: Terms
• References: If you have a site with ideas that should be addressed here, please add it to this page!

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Contributing To this Wiki

The exchange of ideas is an essential part of research. This wiki is open for anyone to edit as long as they share in the goal of this site. You may edit any page in the MAR Group. Simply click on the edit button and off you go. Go to the pmwiki site for more info about the software powering this wiki and to learn how to use its markup.

To facilitate sharing, we ask that you only contribute material that you have the rights to, and that you contribute it under the Gnu Free Documentation License, so that others can help improve it. The general approach to contributing should mirror wikipedia's guidelines for contributions.

Since this is my site, I retain final say on the content. If you don't like the control I exert, everything is under the GFDL; you can copy it all and start another site. Hopefully that will never be the case, I only reserve this right for the case where extreme intervention or guidance is needed.

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Along with these strategic questions, it can help to analyze sport martial arts rules(1? 2?) to find out which strategies are deliberatly avoided!

Newton's first law of mechanics governs every move we make, literally. What are the implications of this to efficient movement? More balance analysis of Upright Balance and Locomotion.

The section on Full Body Motion will anaylze how to use your entire body to achieve your movement goals. Along with balance this leads to the study of various movement principals such as Pendulous Motion.

What makes a powerfull strike? How can we train to improve our strikes?

Help Needed - While most things here are in need of contributions, I am trying to formulate some new ideas on how Throwing relates to striking. I could use some help answering some questions.

Help Needed - While most things here are in need of contributions, I am trying to formulate some new ideas on how Throwing related to striking. I could use some help answering some questions.

It is fundamental to the study of combat to have an understanding of what your strategic goals are. Any study of martial techniques and tactics might be in vain or worse, counterproductive if it does not help to achieve these.

Due to the overwhelming variety of martial arts and martial sports it would not be unusual to conclude that combat strategy is a matter of philosophy; that needn't be the case. It is possible to illustrate that certain strategic approaches are better than others at achieving various combat objectives.

Regardless of strategy or tactics, the study of physics and human physiology will help achieve optimal martial peformance.

Balance

Newton's first law of mechanics governs every move we make, literally. What are the implications of this to efficient movement? Find out here

Some analysis of Upright Balance and Locomotion.

Striking

What makes a powerfull strike? How can we train to improve ou strikes?

Scientific Analysis

• Common Ground: Terms

• References: If you have a site with ideas that should be addressed here, please add it to this page!

Strategy

It is fundamental to the study of combat to have an understanding of what your strategic goals are. Any study of martial techniques and tactics mihgt be in vain or worse, counterproductive if it does not help to achieve these.

Due to the overwhelming variety of martial arts and martial sports one might believe that combat strategy is a matter of philosophy; that needn't be the case. It is possible to illustrate that certain strategic approaches are better than others at achieving various combat objectives. To help illuminate this, I have posed some Strategy Questions, I invite you to provide some answers to them.

Principles

While strategy

References

To facilitate sharing, we ask that you only contribute material that you have the rights to, and that you contribute it under the Gnu Free Documentation License, so that others can help improve it. The general approach to contributing should mirror wikipedia's guidelines for contributions.

Since this is my site, I retain final say on the content. If you don't like the control I exert, everything is under the GFDL; you can copy it all and start another site. Hopefully that will never be the case, I only reserve this right for the case where extreme intervention or guidance is needed.

The general approach to contributing should mirror wikipedia's guidelines for contributions. Since this is my site, I retain final say on the content. If you don't like the control I exert, everything is under the GFDL; you can copy it all and start another site. Hoepfully that will never be the case, I only reserve this right for the case where extreme intervention or guidance is needed.

The goal of this wiki is to create a comprehensive scientific body of martial arts theory which is rationaly coherent and provable.

Please feel free to add your two cents, (hopefully much more).

• Strategy Questions

• Collisions and Impact: Some thoughts about momentum and speed
• To Bounce or not To Bounce: Some thoughts about the types of collisions.
• The Chi Argument

• Walking on a balance beam

Contributing To this Wiki

The exchange of ideas is an essential part of research. This wiki is open for anyone to edit as long as they share in the goal of this site. You may edit any page in the MAR Group. Simply click on the edit button and off you go. Go to the pmwiki site for more info about the software powering this wiki and to learn how to use its markup.

To facilitate sharing, we ask that you only contribute material that you have the rights to, and that you contribute it under the Gnu Free Documentation License, so that others can help improve it.

The general approach to contributing should mirror wikipedia?'s guidelines for contributions. Since this is my site, I retain final say on the content. If you don't like the control I exert, everything is under the GFDL; you can copy it all and start another site. Hoepfully that will never be the case, I only reserve this right for the case where extreme intervention or guidance is needed.

• Strategy

• Relative Body Balance

• Collisions: To Bounce or not To Bounce

Martial Arts Research

This is a wiki dedicated to scientific Martial Arts research. Please feel free to add your two cents, (hopefully much more). Scroll down for more info on this wiki.

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Principles

• Relative Body Balance for efficient movement
• Upright Balance
• Locomotion
• Collsions: Some thoughts about momentum and speed - Collisions and Impact
• Collisions: To Bounce or not To Bounce?
• The Chi Argument

Sports & Martial Arts

Since sports deal intimately with the mechanics of the human body, they should be an obvious place to look to gain knowledge and understanding of human mechanical principles. Of primary importance in most sports: balance, speed and power.

• Throwing a baseball.
• Throwing a discuss.
• Cutting wood with an ax.
• Skiing, Primary Movements Teaching System
• Archery
• Functional weight lifting (not body building), kettle bells Walking, climbing (a pole/stairs), running, double poling (in skiing)

 Since sports deal intimately with the mechanics of the human body, they should be an obvious place to look to gain knowledge and understanding of human mechanical principles.  Of primary importance in most sports: balance, speed and power.

 The exchange of ideas is an essential part of research.  To facilitate this, all of my writtings are available under the Gnu Free Documentation License.  This allows anyone to reproduce and improve my writtings easily.  I encourage you to do the same.

 There are tons of martial art school web pages out there.  Unfortunately most of them simply contain information about themselves and usually some history of the style.  But some web pages do contain descriptions of techniques and some have some interesting articles.  Here are some that I have come across.  Please let me know if you find other valuable articles or sites.

 "You have to find out which part of the bottom of his base is most important to him. Find out where the weight is centered at the lowest part of the body. Then apply the lever there. Of course, he may change that center all the time, so you must use your sensitivity to find it and scoop him out."
 that he is talking about the  Center of Pressure which is where our balance is restored from.  Now when he says:
 T'ai Chi's goal of becoming soft, or supple, Zhang said, is a recognition of the need to create this leverage. If a person is stiff, he said, then the length of the lever in that person's body is stopped at the point of tension, whether it be the elbows, shoulders, back or hips.
  Properly done, he said, looseness allows an internal connection from the hand or wrist or even the fingers down to the bottom of the foot. The longer the connection, the more leverage the individual can exert on his opponent. Using spiral movements gives an added advantage over straight line movements, because the spirals create a longer lever. 

References

If you have a site with ideas that should be addressed here, please add it to this page!

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About This Wiki

Goal

Contributing

The exchange of ideas is an essential part of research. This wiki is open for anyone to edit as long as they share in the goal of this site. To facilitate sharing, we ask that you only contribute material that you have the right to and that you contribute it under the Gnu Free Documentation License so that others can help improve it. If in doubt, check out wikipedia's guidelines for contributing. Since this my site, I will have final say on the content, but if you don't like the control I exert, everything is under the GFDL; you can copy it all and start another site. I only reserve this right for the case where extreme intervention or guidance is needed.

Researching Martial Arts Principles

Universal Principles

• Relative Body Balance (article I've just started to write)
• Some ramblings between Rakesh, Geoff and me about Collisions and Impact
• The Chi Argument

Sports & Martial Arts

Since sports deal intimately with the mechanics of the human body, they should be an obvious place to look to gain knowledge and understanding of human mechanical principles. Of primary importance in most sports: balance, speed and power.

• Throwing a baseball.
• Throwing a discuss.
• Cutting wood with an ax.
• Skiing, Primary Movements Teaching System
• Archery
• Functional weight lifting (not body building), kettle bells Walking, climbing (a pole/stairs), running, double poling (in skiing)

Sharing

 The exchange of ideas is an essential part of research.  To facilitate this, all of my writtings are available under the Gnu Free Documentation License.  This allows anyone to reproduce and improve my writtings easily.  I encourage you to do the same.

References

 There are tons of martial art school web pages out there.  Unfortunately most of them simply contain information about themselves and usually some history of the style.  But some web pages do contain descriptions of techniques and some have some interesting articles.  Here are some that I have come across.  Please let me know if you find other valuable articles or sites.

Essence of Evolution This web site contains an outline of the concepts I have been studying lately, but it is a little hard to read. I will attempt to elucidate some of the content at a later date. This site sells 3 incredibly usefull videos. I have tried to learn from videos before with little sucess, theses videos make it easy. They are sturctured like a textbook and provide great illustrations of relative balance. The editing is very bad but the material is so good that it doesn't matter. Anyone with a decent amount of experience in any martial art could use these as a curriculum of study for themselves along with a partner. I can't wait for Master Su's latest two videos, he has one on Tai Chi and one on the Process of Kung Fu. I have seen exerpts of them in Japanese. The quality of the footage is excellent, the concepts are grand.

THE ESSENCE OF MARTIAL ART: AN OVERVIEW This article has a good description of what reasearching a martial art should be about.

True Balance Dynamics This article gives an intersting description of a balanced posture. Unfortunately it does not seem to talk about relative balance.

CMIA Reflexology Article This article is failry low on content (the text it is short, but there are pictures which make it seem longer). The descriptions of the two types of kicks seem good. Also, the toe-heel lift exercise on page 5 looks awfully a lot like the up-down leg method. I would suggest the leg method instead of their excercise, follwing their logic, it is better to have an excersie that is more natural, a form of walking. Also, I think it would be better to enhance your full body balance instead of isolating the excercise to your foot by holding onto something.

Analyse some of the articles here

Zhang Lu Ping on Leveraging Internal Power An intersting, but very abstract and hard to understand article. I think that when he states:

 "You have to find out which part of the bottom of his base is most important to him. Find out where the weight is centered at the lowest part of the body. Then apply the lever there. Of course, he may change that center all the time, so you must use your sensitivity to find it and scoop him out."
 that he is talking about the  Center of Pressure which is where our balance is restored from.  Now when he says:
 T'ai Chi's goal of becoming soft, or supple, Zhang said, is a recognition of the need to create this leverage. If a person is stiff, he said, then the length of the lever in that person's body is stopped at the point of tension, whether it be the elbows, shoulders, back or hips.
  Properly done, he said, looseness allows an internal connection from the hand or wrist or even the fingers down to the bottom of the foot. The longer the connection, the more leverage the individual can exert on his opponent. Using spiral movements gives an added advantage over straight line movements, because the spirals create a longer lever. 

I know the feeling he is talking about with tension, but I do not understand how it is lengthening my lever from a physics point of view. Also, how does the spiral motion lengthen my lever is there a cam effect? ( more on Lu Ping) His Math PHD You can buy some of his articles in Tai Chi magazine. Huan is his son.

Philippi Martial Arts Academy, Inc. is a WVa school related to Chi Lin. I need to talk to Carry about training, he teaches locally. I also need to find out about this year's Chi Lin weekend.