Momentum

Momentum is an important concept in your martial arts training. Understanding it and applying it correctly can add devastating power to your punch or kick or to equalize your energy against a much larger opponent. Your opponents momentum can be manipulated to  unbalance their timing or mobility creating more openings for attack. It should be a point in your training to understand momentum and how it is applied in your martial art.

However, the same understanding can be applied in our daily lives. When we find ourselves in flow state, when we are accomplishing our tasks seemingly effortlessly, the positive momentum can help us complete other tasks in other parts of our lives. When our day seems full of challenges from the get go, momentum can build, increasing the effects, and we can easily fall off into a cycle of failure and frustration. Now don't forget, just as we can adapt to our opponents and unbalance and redirect their momentum to be used against them, we can smartly analyze the situations in our lives and adapt to off balance the negative momentum.

When we open our perspective from our martial arts training and techniques and see how we can adapt these concepts in our day to day lives, that's when we truly embody the spirit of the martial arts.