Free yourself from your opponent's force - Second principle of power

My Friend and Student Pasquale "Guido" Mazzotta translated and adapted another article for his blog's readers. I invite my followers to go on this link to read our work about the first principle of http://siulamboxing.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-yourself-from-your-opponents-force.html. I thank Guido for his hard work to study, train and spread our great Martial Art!

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If our force is a kind of matter that is projected from the inside out, on the other side the opponent's strength tends to follow the opposite way, to enter into us, in our spine, our center. Therefore, these two forces going in opposite directions, mine from the inside out, the other from outside to inside.

By the term "to free", we mean in this case "avoid this force being released into our body"; it will be necessary to prevent the entry of the opponent force while continuing to project our own (to not violate the first law of force).

However, if the two forces collide in a direct way we could hardly apply the first principle: it is as if a person wants to leave a room and the other one wants to enter, if ythey try to do both frontally and at the same time, probably none of them succeed in his goal, just they keep pushing one each other, using the raw strength - that we want to refine at least -. So it is necessary that the opponent's strength does not affect us without this being a result of a confrontation between the forces.

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Free yourself from your own force - First principle of power

My Friend and Student Pasquale "Guido" Mazzotta translated and adapted one of my article for his blog's readers. I invite my followers to go on this link to read our work about the first principle of power: http://siulamboxing.blogspot.com/2011/04/free-yourself-from-your-own-force-1st.html. I thank Guido for his hard work to study, train and spread our great Martial Art!

"Free yourself from your own force" seems to be one of the main points to face Chi Sao ("sticky hands", one of the typical exercises of the style), but not only this. Let' s go deep inside the topic.
First, we have to consider that the energy is not the force. Energy is an internal concept, that can be expressed externally without the use of the force. Often, it' s the absence of force to give us the energy we need to face a fighting. When we create a bridge (Kiu) between us and the opponent, we create also an energetic pressure. When we use the force instead of pressure, we give the opponent a signal, so he will have more opportunities to free himself from us and from our force. That's why we need do not use force during the contact, but instead we need to create the right tendon and muscle tension, in order to control and manage our won balance as well as the incoming forces.

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