| "Kamehameha", as well as the "Spirit Bomb" | | | | nerve endings and the tissues they connect with |
| technique, are perhaps the most famous | | | | and control. The same way a magnetic field is |
| signature attacks performed in battles on the | | | | produced around a wire with a charge coursing |
| martial arts anime, "Dragonball Z", by Toriyama, | | | | through it, our bio-electricity creates a magnetic |
| Akira. Few people realize however, that (as | | | | field. So, how is this represented by the spirit |
| ridiculous as this may sound) these are in truth, | | | | bomb or the kamehameha wave from Dragonball |
| representations of actual operations using internal | | | | Z? Let's talk about fa jing... |
| martial arts, albeit exceedingly and inordinately | | | | In using fa jing, a practitioner will charge up his |
| exaggerated, "cartoon-ified" versions of them. For | | | | bio-electromagnetic field, or his chi, with something |
| example, the Kamehameha wave attack is an | | | | called "jing". However, the chi field is only a field, |
| outlandishly amplified representation of what is | | | | much like that which surrounds a magnet. It isn't a |
| known in Yang style T'ai Qi Quan internal form as | | | | flow of energy per se, but merely a direction of |
| "Fa Jing". Some fans in the know however, realize | | | | flow... jing is the actual bio-electricity that the |
| this truth, and seek to find out how to use chi in | | | | martial artist has cultivated, built up, stored, and |
| such ways. Today, dear readers, we are going to | | | | now discharges through his chi field in order to |
| investigate just that - allow me to explain... | | | | send his sparring opponent flying out of the ring, |
| In learning how to use chi, we need to understand | | | | often without even making any physical contact. |
| it scientifically in order to make things simple here. | | | | Sometimes you may even hear the martial artist |
| Chi (correctly spelled "Qi", pronounced as "chee") | | | | even voice out, "Faaaaa-JING!" as he does this, |
| is basically a bio-electromagnetic field, which is | | | | much like when Goku, the main character of |
| simply an electromagnetic field produced by living | | | | Dragonball Z, shouts, "Kamehameha!" or, "Spirit |
| biological organisms. We all have bio-electricity | | | | Bomb!". This charging and discharging is achieved |
| coursing through us, as our brains tell our legs to | | | | through certain exercises in external form and |
| walk, our hands to pick up things, whenever we | | | | internal form, as well as using certain breathing |
| register pain, smell a flower, or even think and | | | | exercises. This is how to use chi... or more |
| dream. This all runs along our spinal cord and | | | | precisely, chi and jing. |
| throughout the vast network of nerves and | | | | |