Lower Providence Aikido

There is a Martial Science, and it is different than the physics you learned in school. Indeed, it is actually opposed to the concepts of normal science. It goes against the rules of such legends as Sir Isaac Newton, who actually is credited with discovering modern day technologies.

Sir Isaac found gravity, and he spouted that famous statement: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, if one shoves on a table with 100 pounds of force, there will be 100 pounds/force worth of motion from the table. Except, that's not the way it works when one studies the martial arts.

In the martial arts physics, if you strike somebody with thirty pounds of force, the force will be absorbed equally by both bodies. This is to say that if you strike somebody with 100 pounds of force, 50 pounds of force will travel up the arm, and 50 pounds of force will travel into the body being struck. In the beginning, this is what you were taught in school.

So you strike faster, leave the fist in contact with the body for a shorter length of time, and something interesting happens: more force is left in the body. For instance, 90% (90 pounds will travel into the body, and only 10% (10 pounds) will travel back up the arm. We are still measurable by physics.

What is not measurable is the next stage: what happens when the martial artist relaxes and puts less effort into the strike. Relaxing unbinds the muscles, and force will not travel into what is relaxed. But we are not talking just relaxed body here, we are talking relaxed mind.

This is a fascinating event, that as one relaxes ones mind, and uses less and less effort, more and more impact occurs. The value of the impact cannot be measured, nor can the value of relaxation within the mind. But the truism is there: the more relaxed the mind, the less effort in the body, the greater the impact upon the target body.

Eventually, effortlessness becomes intention. Intention is nothing more than the fact of concentrated awareness. And here is where we encounter a higher set of physics. Intention is utilized, nothing can be measured, and the effect is created, and the rule (of this higher physics) is created: A point (of awareness) in a direction has no opposite and equal reaction.

This phenomena, one of awareness being immeasurable, is railed at by the scientific community: it goes against all the rules, breaks the rules, and unsubstantiates their whole reason for being. Yet, it is fact, and, taken to extremes, can even prove the existence of that most indistinct of all nebulosities...it can prove the existence of God. Of course, one would have to study the Martial Science, understand the real Martial Art rules, and actually succeed in reaching a high enough stage of awareness to understand, and therefore legitimately subscribe to, this thesis.