Martial Arts Versus Martial Science Structure

(Originally published in Combat Sports Magazine Aug 2001)

(by Dr. Ron Chapel msuacf.com 10-13-15)

Over your lifetime beginning when you first began to have control of your body, you have performed various tasks, and in that process created synaptic pathways to the brain that support these many physical activities. Most of them are actually unconsciously engrained into your muscle memory. You body can work efficiently when your body “senses” the need to use or overcome resistance, or inefficiently if you make a conscious decision to do something that contradicts sound body mechanics.
 

Most are “trained” into using poor body mechanics and in many cases have over-ridden the instinctual good, and created “bad” synaptic pathways for inefficient and body damaging physical movement.
 

The human body is a great machine if you listen to it. Unfortunately for many, they have stop listening and retrained it so poorly they can no longer “hear” what it is saying. You have forced yourself into “Disassociated Anatomical Movement.”
 

In Martial Science, much like other sciences, there is a direct cause and effect to all activity. Martial Science draws on many different scientific disciplines, but all are in some way related to one another through the conduit of human anatomy.

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