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The Truth About Putting Out A Candle In Tai Chi Chuan!
I can put out a candle with a martial arts power at about two feet now. This article is about the techniques I have been working with. I'm hoping other people out there will want to share their methods, and we can all start putting out candles from across the room.
Now, just to be clear, it is a trick, but it does have valuable benefits. Concentration improves, and you learn different things about how the body can be used. The body and the mind, after all, are tools that we have barely begun to understand how to use.
First things first, I learned the cheap shot of putting out a candle. If you flick the finger in front of the flame, the flick is enough to rob the flame of oxygen and make the candle go out. Try it, just hold the hand a few inches back of the candle, then flick the finger as if you are flicking off water, as if you are merely snapping the fingers, and do it on the flame.
Next, I worked on the fist stopping in front of the candle. While there is mental focus involved, this is still a simple rob the flame of oxygen trick. You are robbing oxygen, but it takes mental control of the body to make it work just right.
You have to be able to stop the movement of the body precisely, exactly, and with no discernible shiver. This leads one to the conclusion that it is not just the muscles involved in doing this method, but control of muscle. All those hours of standing in a horse stance in front of a candle do help the physical body, but it is the mental benefit that is of most value.
When I put out a candle at two feet I use a tai chi posture which is labeled Brush Knee, and I work on shifting weight, turning hips, and using all parts of the body to do so. The most important thing, the thing that showed me gradual and increasing success, was to take all the energy out of what I was doing. I do it karate style, and I learned to use less physical effort and more mental focus, I do it tai chi style, and my success comes when I can take almost all energy out of the body and move the body from outside.
Yeah, it takes me a while, but as I remove energy from my body, concentrate on not snapping muscle, but emptying frame, I tend to get a little back of my body. I'm not out, a floating, disembodied intelligence wafting through the universe, just a little removed, comfortably removed, seeing my body from a viewpoint a little behind my eyes. The patience and mental resources are quite pitched at this point, because I am trying to move a body without using muscle, except at the lightest points.
I still encounter problems with the method I am using. In spite of the mental sharpness I am building, it doesn't feel efficient. Also, there seems to be a limit to the effective distance I am able to put out a candle at, and I can't get beyond about three feet. But at least I am experiencing limited success, and time and patience and resolved efforts will give me more.
About the Author
Al Case has studied martial arts for over over 4O years. He has written scores of articles and had his own column in Inside Karate. If you want to find out find out more about hitting harder in the martial arts, pick up his free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.