Originally Posted by
Scott R. Brown
I understand it does not sound like I understand internal to someone who doesn't really understand it themselves. There is a great deal of wrong information out there about it.
I cannot tell you something only an internal guy would know that is not found it books for a couple of reasons:
One, I don't know what you know or do not know!
Two, you are starting from a false premise. When one starts from a false premise the conclusion they arrive at is false as well!
Since you believe that what you do is internal, EVERYTHING you do is re-interpreted according to your accepted, and false, premise This colors your understanding of the results of your actions causing you to misinterpret them. Since I understand, as sanjuro does, that it is all actually external, I understand it according to how it truly is.
Actions performed by an "Internalist" are still actions, which means they are external. The theories explaining the internal generation of power were developed by people who did not have a clear understanding of bio-mechanics, momentum and human psychology, all of which combine to make external actions "appear" magical or "internal" to the inexperienced.
I can easily demonstrate this fact to anyone in person, but experience has taught me that those who drink the Kool-Ade will not believe anything I say because they don't want to understand their actions in terms of external principles. It involves a change in a world view that takes the magic out of life. It is much more fun to believe in faeries and unicorns, than bio-mechanics and momentum.
But just as an experiment you can try yourself, if anything one does can truly be called internal with qi being the powering force (from the traditional view), try to perform any movement successfully against a resisting opponent who is NOT a student, but experienced in a good, strong bio-mechanically based art like Judo or some form of Ju-jitsu, on one foot. You cannot do it!
It cannot be done, because it is biomechanics that is the powering force, the hips mostly and one must have both feet firmly on the ground in order to generate the proper force necessary. One foot is an unstable base, the narrower the base the more unstable, the wider the base the more stable. This is why you can easily push over a pencil standing on its eraser, but not a book laying on its front of back covers.