The Use Of Biomechanica Principles In Martial Arts

Martial arts, one of the four Chinese historical legacies, will quite probably be established as a new competition event in the 2008 Olympic Games along with China's success catering for hosting the Games. Martial arts represents the traditional Chinese physical culture. Studies on theories about martial arts, however, are very limited. What's more, the basic theories call for further development. Exercise biomechanics is one of the fundamental theories of martial arts. It is critical for the further development of Chinese martial arts to base substantially on certain theories. This essay, by introducing a framework of exercise biomechanics theory system as well as its analyzing method, aims to the analysis on the employment of exercise biomechanics in martial arts and seeks the methods and regularities of its theories through theoretical and example analysis. The main aim of this essay is to lays some instructions on the methods of the application of exercise biomechanics.After careful examination on relating materials, I become aware that at present researches on martial arts exercise biomechanics are rather limited. Many martial arts experts have realizes the significance of exercise biomechanics to the development of martial arts and have analyzed even summarized the regularities of exercise biomechanics. But because of some historical or conditional limitations, researches in this field are far from being systematic. Based on these facts this essay tries to integrate the fragments of exercise biomechanic theory, and furthermore, from a systematic point of view, sort out the regularities of exercise biomechanics involved in martial arts.This paper comes to the following conclusions after analyzing the employment of exercise biomechanics in martial arts through dynamics, static mechanics, movement principle and turning mechanics:I. Dynamics principles in martial arts are mainly deal with dynamicproblems in martial arts, such as the procession of how a movement take place, the state of movement and the changing of postures and also the change of forcefulness, direction and effect of force in antagonist sports, as well as how to shift force and how to save force.II. The principles of static mechanics in martial arts are mainly to solve the stability in movement. These principles can be used widely either in lasting balance or balance preservation. Body's stability is determined by three abilities: the active balancing force, the slanting at the beginning of movement and posture recovery. In order to keep them balanced, athletes can turn to compensating movement, buffering movement and recovering movement and, in addition to that, strengthen the control over balancing movement and recovery.III. Movement principles can be used in trace, speed, time and space in martial arts. We can use them to analyze the technological movement, in which the relationship between the positional change and the time of the movement in martial arts are mainly dealt with. That is to say, to describe technological movements in martial arts from the viewpoint of time and space.IV. The principles of turning movement are necessary in studying all movements concerning turning in martial. Turnings in martial arts are all around joints, which are divided into two kinds: partial turning and the whole body's turning. They will soften the turning effect of the whole or part of the body and make movements more perfect.V.Relating exercise biomachenic should be involved in the analyses of movements about turning in martial arts. All the technological movements are not simple parallel movement or turning, nor are they the effects of a single principle. Only if we synthetically use all the related principles can we give better instruction and drill to martial arts.