The Creative Relationship is one part of the Martial Art System.
It can be observed that a creative relationship exists between certain pairs of the Five Martial Elements, which works simultaneously with the Control Relationship.
This relationship means that time & effort spent on the development of any one particular element will subsequently have a beneficial, positive, enhancing, thus ‘creative’ effect on the element to which it is connected.
| Strategic Element | -> Creative Relationship -> | Theoretical Element |
| Theoretical Element | -> Creative Relationship -> | Technical Element |
| Technical Element | -> Creative Relationship -> | Practical Element |
| Practical Element | -> Creative Relationship -> | Physical Element |
| Physical Element | -> Creative Relationship -> | Strategic Element |
Because ALL the elements are ultimately connected, this positive influence will cycle through the entire system, element-by-element, in a particular order.
The order in which all elements are affected is known as the Creation Cycle.