These are merely tools to manifest movement that comes from the center of our bodies. If your arms and legs tire quickly you may be muscling it, starting at the shoulders and/or the upper legs and hip joint areas.
All movement is driven by our waist girdle area and by transference through the arms and legs as “enhancers and conduits of energy.” They serve this conduit function along with stabilization to best convert energy for power and force. Strength of the muscles are for stabilization but also, depending on our application of principles, endurance.
There is a balance of muscles to skeletal system to body size, i.e., small frame to medium frame to large frame. The larger the muscles contribute to weight and mass rather than endurance. Strength is what most assume carries the day but in reality it is the ability to stabilize against the amount of force meeting the body, the degree of stability attained by the type and application of the muscles and strength contributes to that and how the body and mass are moved in relation to the attack, the attackers body movement and what you are utilizing in methodologies to get-r-done.
For instance, trying to manipulate the attackers hands by grasping the fingers and moving them in a direction that is not appropriate to the type of joints in the wrist and the fingers. If you try to manipulate by using just your hands and that hand strength your energy level, fatigue sets in quickly, vs. the strength applied by the attacker along with his application of principles like structure, alignment, muscle stabilization, etc. If your arms are not set and locked in a way that promotes proper manipulation of the attackers hands and finger that person can easily break the hold. If you have your body movement coming from your center radiating energy, stabilization, and movement in accordance with the method, with your arms locked into a stable position, etc., then the hand/finger manipulation works.
It isn’t the strength of the hand muscles, or even the arms, which makes this work. These are enhancers and stabilizers for the method but your entire body movement along with the traits of the torso, shoulders, upper/lower arms, wrists and hands to fingers combined in a complimentary beneficial and efficient, strong, stable way that make it work.
Trying to apply appropriate methodologies without fundamental principles, especially physiokinetic’s sub-principles, is muscling it rather than making the entire body and mind work for you to stop the damage, and in this case example, manipulate the hand/fingers to control your attacker to reach what your objective was, in this case and this case example only.
People mistakenly try to use their arm strength alone, or mostly, only to find the energy and endurance levels dropping fast into exhaustion leaving them weakened and vulnerable to damage. Then they assume it isn’t working like in training so they keep going to, “make it” work and then it is all over but the aftermath.
It is imperative to survival in self-protection to understand how the “entire body” functions in a complimentary unified way to achieve success and that it is our core the is the starting point of everything we do. Using our entire body appropriately and efficiently puts our endurance on a higher level, assuming we remain fit and in shape, and ensures our energy is conserved and utilized at levels appropriate to what we are trying to apply. If we do this better and quicker than our attacker then we achieve success in avoiding grave damage and even death while we put our attacker into a position that stops their effort allowing escape and evasion.
Arms and Legs, can’t live without-em but remember to use them wisely. The old body builder adage that bigger and stronger arms will carry the day is not exactly correct. The bigger and stronger muscles add to our endurance and stability, etc., as long as they are used appropriately with our entire body, then we are really getting-r-done!
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