Chin
Na
Chin Na Principles: 1. based on joint structure,
2. blood vessel network,
3. acupuncture meridians (chi meridians).
Applied Chin Na utilizes: 1. strikes to and seizing of vital points,
2. tendon grabbing,
3. blood vessel grabbing,
4. joint locks.
Chin Na has 4 main branches or components:
1. kicking,
3.
throwing,
2. striking,
4. locking.
Chin - (locking) the movement of joints against their normal range
of motion.
Na - (seizing) of the vital pints disrupting or blocking the energy
flow.
Bones: 1. axial skeleton (head, vertebrae, ribs, pelvis)
2.
appendicular skeleton (arms, forearms, wrist, hand, fingers, leg,
lower leg,
ankle, foot.
Joints can withstand the pressure of compression, flexion, extension
much better than forces of rotation, therefore Chin Na techniques
twist the joints to cause greater pain and injury.
Joint types: 1. Immovable = fibrous and cartilaginous
2. Movable = have joint space filled
with synovial fluid, cartilaginous ends
and are freely movable but
held in place by ligaments. Chin Na injure ligaments.
Types of movable joints: Ball and socket
(shoulder), hinge (elbow), saddle
(thumb), ellipsoid and gliding (wrist),
and pivotal (neck).
Movable joints are traversed by blood
vessels and nerves, and if twisted in
the right fashion will interrupt the
integrity of these structures causing additional
pain and injury.
Coupling motion = refers to the locking of a joint making that
limb a lever for the next joint.
Reactive motion = refers to the resultant motion or action caused
in response to the
locking of a joint.
Golden Silk Entwines the Wrist - in an anchored wrist grab the
fingers are force over the wrist and down. This is countered by
upward piercing of the divine lock.
