"Hitting Where The Point Is"

I had always been fascinated watching Naruto and the "Avatar: The Last Airbender" because somehow, they share something in common that is really so catchy and interesting... and that's the "Chakra" thingy. In a ninja world like that from the Naruto, Chakras are very essential and the skills of a ninja depends on the way or the level of how he/she knows and manages the chakra. Chakras are also mentioned in other anime, cartoons and even from the movies and other media.

Negi/Neji and Hinata or the Hyuuga clan have this "bloodline limit" called the "Byakugan". The "Byakugan" gives the user an extra-sensory perception, which gives them penetrating sight and telescopic vision. The internal chakra circulation system in other beings are then made visible. A 360° view of the surroundings is also granted to the user. A small blindspot that extends outwards from their upper back is the only drawback of this vision.

The Juuken (gentle fist) fighting style created by the user's own chakra is used together with the Byakugan to certainly make the opponent defenseless and inactive. The user activates the byakugan to locate the chakra points and by pressing the "tenketsu" (the connectors and exit points for the chakra pathways) or chakra pressure points of their opponents body through their fingertips with chakra focused on it, the tenketsu is either stopped or blocked making the opponent ninja immobilized losing his or her ability to utilize chakra for jutsu.

The same goes with one character from the Avatar: The Last Airbender - Ty Lee.

Ty Lee is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, utilizing a unique form of martial arts that attacks pressure points on the human body. By striking a person's pressure points, she is able to disrupt that individual's chi flow and temporarily remove their ability to move and use bending. She is able to strike sequences of pressure points to do numerous things to her enemies. She can paralyze a single body part, or even the entire human body if she wants to. She can even block the Chi paths in a human body, depriving Benders of their abilities.

I can say that both the Hyuuga clan and Ty Lee are masters of the human body or experts of the Chi. They are the "Chi Blockers" which can be very dangerous to battle with. However, Ty Lee's abilities are more realistic than that of the Hyuuga's since the clan has this special skill that can see through the human body's chakras. Ty Lee as a Chi Blocker uses her knowledge about the human body and her speed to do some "quick jabs" to be able to immobilize her opponents.

Another important role of chakra in the body is also discussed in the Avatar: The Last Airbender. Opening or setting free of the chakra nodes for a better body functioning not just physically is one good thing that I was able to discover. In the Avatar, Aang needs to set and open all his 7 chakra points in order to control his Avatar State.

I will be sharing to you how to open those chakra points in my next posts (by researching or watching "that" part of the show again.. haha.. good thing I had a copy *winks*).