by Tibi Moravcik

This blog will explain how you can proactively prepare the channel for power flow.

The power flowing into your body will affect it – that’s a physical low. However, since the power flows into your body, it’s your decision how and where the power flows.

Relaxed muscles collapse, and solid muscles transfer the power further. You choose which joint to collapse and with which to transfer the power. E.g. if you push my fingers, my fingers can collapse, or I can transfer the power to a wrist. The wrist can collapse or transfer the power to an elbow, a shoulder, a spine, hips, a knee etc. – to any joint of the chain.

It’s similar to how engineers prepare a new river stream bed. They proactively prepare the channel for the water and then passively observe how the water flows. Engineers are not under time pressure. Water will still flow according to the prepared stream bed.

Another example is programmers. They are programming computers using binary code 0/1 to prepare a channel for electrons. Later, when the program runs, they don’t need to do anything – the program is running by itself.
Like electricity flows via transistors and processors, power can flow via our bodies.

Like engineers or programmers, you don’t need to be involved during the power flowing via yourself if you have prepared the channel. You don’t need to be stressed. You don’t need to rely on your reflexes.

You can just observe how the configuration of tensed and relaxed joints predetermines the power flow into your body.
With the correct configuration, the power can move you where you want – push or pull you to the rotation, off-balance, or walk.

However, when your mind realises power flow, you can join it and actively lead it where you need to (e.g., counter-strike or another dancing step).

As transistors have, we don’t just have a 0 and 1 option.
You can create much more with the power by setting up your muscles to relax, solid, elastic, or have plastic tension.
We can split the power into two or more motions.
We can also control the intensity of the power.

A solid joint transfer power immediately – like a stick.
A relaxed – flexible joint will be bent.

To reach the ability to prepare the channel for power, you should have excellent control over the tension in each muscle.
We have a lot of exercises that teach you to prepare and create a different channel for power.
A different configuration of the body tension creates different physical qualities and responses. E.g. a rugby player who can randomly collapse or not is unpredictable.

One of my stories explains how strongly people expect any standard tension and how they can be surprised if they meet with a different configuration…

Once, during my work as a doorman, a cheeky guy jumped onto my back for a ‘piggy back’. He expected me to have standard body tension, which would give him support. However, my body tension was different – my body subconsciously collapsed in a specific pattern under his body weight. So, he jumped into emptiness instead of onto a solid body. He flowed through me, fell on his head, and lost consciousness for a moment. I thought that he had died! I was so distracted thinking about explaining this in front of a courthouse that I didn’t take action. That I just have a different natural tension than he expected. Fortunately, he survived…

Pre-programming the channel for the power will massively speed up your reactions, which would be useful in any sport, dance, a fight, or just moving between people in the crowd at a station…