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Cultivating the Root of All ArtWe are all familiar with the term martial arts it is used all the time by those trained in the different forms of fighting. While you have the term martial, pertaining to war or the military and art, meaning the creation of meaningful or thought provoking works, how do these two terms really reconcile one another? What does it mean to call something an art? There are many fighters in the world but where is the art form in it? Generally when we speak of art we think of conveying a thing of beauty in picture, form or dance, we don’t think about bashing someone’s head in. So where then is the art, what beauty could possibly be expressed in a martial environment?
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Mantis: Form and FunctionKwong Sai Jook Lum mantis is a soft, short-fist, in-fighting style that uses the opponents own power against them. Short fist means that we generate power from a very close distance to the opponent’s body to hit deeply and effectively. Long fist styles generate a great deal of power with speed and mass but it takes a longer distance and more time to do this. Being a soft style does not in any way mean it is limp or wimpy. Soft turns to hard at the right moment and hard to soft; just like the yin-yang symbol. You might intercept the attack with a soft motion but then redirect and strike hard into the body. Jook Lum seeks to generate a great deal of power just inches from the body and then deliver the energy into the body and not through the body.
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