Martial Structure by Phillip Starr

Author:Phillip Starr
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623172275
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2018-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 10-8 . Loss of physical balance causes a loss of mental balance.

So there’s more to breathing than just making your techniques more powerful, and the masters of the past knew it. That’s another reason why they focused so hard on proper breathing, and taught their students to do the same. But breathing isn’t particularly exciting to practice, like kicks and punches are, and consequently, many breathing exercises were tossed by the wayside and forgotten. Some schools openly taught breathing as a method of enhancing balance, such as those that emphasize certain forms (karate’s sanchin kata, for example), while others taught physical balancing exercises—because great physical balance cannot be maintained unless one’s breathing is correct—as a way of teaching proper breathing to their unknowing students. The northern schools of gong-fu and the early school of Shorin-ryu karate were known for this. A number of styles practiced both breathing exercises and balance routines.

So what does structure have to do with balance? You’ll have to find out in the next chapter.

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