Insights on "Marriage of Gravity"

[profesormental]

Greetings.

There is one important aspect of the Concept of "Marriage of Gravity" that is seldom mentioned.

Frictional forces on contact points on the floor we're stepping on are what counterforces and keeps us in place whenever we strike someone instead of bouncing and sliding away.

That force has been proven to be equal to the normal force (in the case of a flat horizontal surface, the weight of the practitioner) multiplied by a coefficinet of friction dependent on the contacting surfaces (example: sneakers and cement).

The thing is that if you hit someone and the force is greater than the frictional force, you'll slide back. If you don't slide then your structure must bear the force. If your structure is sound, then the force and mechanical energy will be transmitted to the attacker and the momentum will be conserved by deformation of the attackers body, or the attacker moving.

Notice that if you increase the normal force, then you can hit even harder without sliding, increasing your effective weight. THe way in which you increase the normal force is by increasing the body's force towards the ground. Loweing your center of gravity explosively increases your weight momentarily by a lot.

Just try it on a normal weighting scale. Stand until it is still. Then explosively bend your knees lowering your height by 6 to 12 inches and stop. You'll notice a change.

So Marriage of Gravity cen be seen as the simultaneous execution and use of many of the concepts, principles and physical phenomena associated with vertical forces as they apply to martial performance.

Hope this helps. There is a lot more on this, yet this is enough for now.

Enjoy!

Juan M. Mercado

[Lance C]

Greetings.

There is one important aspect of the Concept of "Marriage of Gravity" that is seldom mentioned.

Frictional forces on contact points on the floor we're stepping on are what counterforces and keeps us in place whenever we strike someone instead of bouncing and sliding away.

That force has been proven to be equal to the normal force (in the case of a flat horizontal surface, the weight of the practitioner) multiplied by a coefficinet of friction dependent on the contacting surfaces (example: sneakers and cement).

The thing is that if you hit someone and the force is greater than the frictional force, you'll slide back. If you don't slide then your structure must bear the force. If your structure is sound, then the force and mechanical energy will be transmitted to the attacker and the momentum will be conserved by deformation of the attackers body, or the attacker moving.

Notice that if you increase the normal force, then you can hit even harder without sliding, increasing your effective weight. THe way in which you increase the normal force is by increasing the body's force towards the ground. Loweing your center of gravity explosively increases your weight momentarily by a lot.

Just try it on a normal weighting scale. Stand until it is still. Then explosively bend your knees lowering your height by 6 to 12 inches and stop. You'll notice a change.

So Marriage of Gravity cen be seen as the simultaneous execution and use of many of the concepts, principles and physical phenomena associated with vertical forces as they apply to martial performance.

Hope this helps. There is a lot more on this, yet this is enough for now.

Enjoy!

Juan M. Mercado

Severe differences in body weight can, everyone falls at the same rate, however when you speed up you enter the realm of the G-Force, so lets say you hit with a gravitational check to a target prone on the ground, you hit 2 g forces (for agruement sake) a man of 150 lbs hits like 300 lbs, but a man of 300lbs hits like a man of 600 lbs.

With gravity it is one of the power concepts that really aids the big man!

Remember in Grade School "Shut Up, or I'll sit on you!"

-Lance