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THE MASSAGE AND THE MARTIAL ARTIST FRANCISCO FEDERICO DINATALE
The method of the massage raises the capacity to
work and the muscles’ strength, it makes the mus- Therapist on Chinese Medicine and
cles to get fit for all kind of work; at the same time, it specialist in Acupuncture
turns a good practice to prevent from several injure
that may happen during the training sessions. Therapist on traditional Japanese The-
The main techniques of martial hand massage are rapy Seitai
the following: friction, rubbing, hammering, and
clapping. Martial Arts Instructor
It generally starts and ends with rubbing to prepare
the body for other techniques. Eastern Philosophy Lover
The preliminary massage starts about 10 or 20 mi-
nute before the training session or the competitions.
Its objective is to get the body functions to the top.
In some cases, the massage avoids the casual cooling
of the body; in others, it lightens the practitioners
stress before the combats start.
There is also martial recovery massage; it is carried
out after the competitions; in the interlude or after
the training sessions. It is intended to revive the
practitioner’s capacity to work, and to remove stress.
Besides, it helps to reduce muscular pain and stan-
dardizes breathing.
A good massage relieves muscular pain and activates
circulatory functions by reducing the toxic waste the
body. It has been tested that it also improves people’s
spirit.
During the practice of Bugeiko the Chinese concept
of vital energy is studied for it si closely related to the
concept of universal energy.
When a junan (flexibility) exercise is developed a
blockade on the energy channels may occur, some
discomfort on specific areas of the body is the out-
come.
Energy blockades might be avoided by a massage te-
chnique joined with a flexibility motion; it is neces-
sary to press with the fingers, so that the Ying – Yang
forces meet their balance in continuos movements,
as in a weighing machine.

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