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ISAI – THE ONLY FRACTAL MARTIAL ARTThe order within the Chaos. The world of reality without clear-cut Western style final definitions; the world where only unpredictability, uncertainty and the unexpected rule. The fractal is a mathematical definition for structures which consist of similar, but smaller structures, which consist of similar, but smaller structures, which … and so on. Most of the natural constructions and stuctures are fractals. The most striking examples of fractals are trees, coralls, blood vessels, dunes of sand, see waves, ecectrical flashes during the storms. The smaller part of tree is a branch which has the same shape as a tree itself. A part of corall has the same shape as the wholr cord. The humans always felt and used the fractal structures, sometimes intuitevely and sometimes constructed the most sofisticated fractal constructions. For example, many Indian shrines have fractal constructions and even the constructions of the World and Time in Indian cosmogony are fractal. The more detailed observation and discussion of these facts is quite beyond the frames of this work. Every practitioner of any kind of martial arts agrees about how the waist has to move. The movement of the waist is obviously ‘fish play’. So, if we will follow to the natural law of the fractal tractures, every part of body will follow the movements, described by the same fractal, ‘fish play’. This kind of mathematical induction, applied to the structure of human movements, clearly shows us that ISAI and only ISAI is completely fractal system of human movements and, as a result, of martial art. What is really important for us when we speak about ISAI is the fact that it’s internal principle or ‘fish play’ which is completely natural, provides to ISAI with one of its very significant and important features – its fractal structure. This fact alone has quite far reaching results. On one hand the understanding of the total fractal nature of ISAI leads us to the understanding that even the language and expressions we use for traditional martial arts such as ‘side kick’ or ‘straight forward punch’ give us to very not-precise extrapolation of our movements. This language, which I call ‘pictogrammic language’, actually leads to the wrong understanding of nature of our movements, to the conclusion, that there are numerious different movements. I will express this idea in more general way – tradional way leads us to the understanding of the World as the World of multitude. Contrary to this approach ISAI gives us the picture of One in its endless appearences. Here is the strange phenomena of life - the restriction in the number of the basic underlying principles turns to the limitless richness of the phenomena itself. Similar to mathematical language used to describe fractals in ISAI we have to stop usage of clear-cut final Western-style definitions. Instead of using ‘pictogrammic language’ we have to use absolutly new kind of language – the ‘alphabethical language’, which is built on absolutely new principles of thinking, expressing and implementation. On the other hand the practical implementation of fractal approach leads to the extreme variability of the performer’s movements. But not only this. When applied toward a partner or an opponent the fractal nature of ISAI turns into unpredictability, uncertainty and unexpected manner of movements. This is a built-in quality of ISAI and not successful strategy applied by either performer of either martial art. If on this basis, on its turn, the strategy of uncertainty and unprectability will be applied, the result will be incredible. The hands and legs will appear like leaves in the air during autumn fall, attacking like hawks and running away like small mice. The body will move constantly, rotating like tornado, trembling and moving to the left and to the rigt, closing and going away like flies swirling in hot air. To observer it will resemble complete chaos of movements. Contrary, to ISAI practicioner these movements appear as complete order, easy to undestand, order within the chaos. All these movements performed without any visible strain or effort, resembling beautiful and relaxing Eastern dance. These qualities are the very nature of ISAI, the most natural style of movements for us, humans. |
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