Online Martial Arts Upsets Society…Something is About to Happen!
Consider what the boy at the computer is really doing. He is engaged in storing up energy. Yes, there is a certain parasitic back and forth in this energy thing, but he is getting more than he is giving.
The watching of the fight causes muscles to twitch, installs synaptic responses that enervate the boy. The exhilaration of winning and losing causes the whole nervous system to move into a state of excitation. Most important, the images imprinted on the brain are an very personal tutorial.
Why do you think they call it programming? The programming is not in the computer, except in the driest of senses. The real programming is happening in the boy.
Excessive knowledge is being tamped into his brain. He starts to know about all manner of subjects, and his education explodes. He begins to mull over such things as ninjitsu, MMA, Tai Chi Chuan, and more.
The visions of Gung Fu movements to be implemented becomes instilled in him. Within his psyche are the seeds to handle all manner of confrontation, physical and otherwise. The next cycle of humanity is about to open its eyes.
This has already happened in history. It happened when mankind swarmed into the cities during the industrial revolution. When mankind released his energy at the end of that industrial upheaval the world was changed.
It happened when mankind discovered television sets, and then exploded into the world with all manner of new concepts. It happened when mankind invented computers, and the world became a virtual conception of unlimited design. The same upheaval of energy and experience is about to happen with online martial arts, when the boy pushes back his chair and goes to explore what he has learned…life will never be the same.
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Who Would Win The Ultimate Martial Arts Fight: Steven Segal Lawman Against Michael Jackson!
First Stevie is ranked large, as in tents for shirts and the ugliest jackets known to a homeless man. This weight will give him an advantage, should he ever connect. But can he connect when the other fighter has the quickest mitts known to man?
And Stevie may have studied Aikido for half his life, but let’s hope he remembers some of his karate tricks. Michael, you see, has those slick, velvet coated hands. Those hands slither and slide, jib and jive, and can fool even the smartest artist.
To be honest, though Michael may have gotten the first few jabs in, Steven does have a few tricks up his rather large sleeves. He’s got…Southern Firepower! He’s got access to shotguns, pistols, and some stout, redneck nightclubs!
Uh, the hitting kind of nightclubs, not the jive and wail kind of nightclubs. Though, to mention it, Stevie does pick a mean guitar, and maybe he could swing that guitar like an ax! Surely a big old electric guitar bashed up against the side of Michael’s cranium wouldcause some kind of trauma!
Anyway, I know there are going to be a few people that aren’t going to go along with my reasoning, but I want you to think about the Beat It video. In that video Michael leaps into the middle of a streetfight and disarms two seasoned thugs armed with wicked looking carvers! Now that has got to be some kind of tough!
And, if that isn’t tougher than your aunt’s used undies, you can see other movies where Michael outruns machine gun bullets, bashes the hopes of hoardes of baddies, and all while singing a tune! Sure, Steven can wail a bit, but…I’ve never seen him sing in the middle of one of his movie gang fights! Heck, all Stevie can do, in the middle of the brawl, is grunt, look hard about the edges, and give a snappy one liner when everybody is laying around all broken!
Okay, I think I’ve made my case, and only the biggest fool isn’t going to agree with me that The King of Pop would beat heck out of the King of Aikido. Unless the Aikido Bad Ass can draw and shoot his trusty pistolo faster than than a politician’s mouth! Now if only Michael would jump out of the grave so we could really see this ultimate martial arts fight!
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Sure Fire Ways Of Achieving The Ultimate Kung Fu Chi Power!
First, for kung fu jump kicks, I’m going to do the following exercise. I’m going to dig a hole, one shovelful a day, and practice jumping into and out of the hole a thousand times a day. By the time I’m down to ten feet, I should be able to do jumping kicks that’ll knock over skyscrapers!
Okay, for body slamming that would put king kong to shame, I’ve got a real he man, kung fu drill! I’m going to live out in the country and every day I’ll lift a calf on my shoulders. By the time the calf is a thousand pounds, I’ll be able to lift anybody in the world, and throw him or her at the ground so hard they strike oil!
Of course brute force isn’t all I want, not when it comes to getting the kind of Kung Fu power ‘m thinking of, so I’ve got a gung fu training drill that will sharpen the eyes and make my fingers nimble. I’m going to sneak up on a wasps nest and practice snatching wasps out of the air with my chopsticks! Hah!
Taking punches is pretty important, too, and I’ve got the right idea for that. I’m going to practice running into walls and trees and things. A thousand days of running full tilt through orchards with a blindfold on should prepare me.
And the old noggin, how could I forget martial arts head conditioning! I saw a guy in a flick who could ring a giant bell just by slamming his head against it! Hey, if I practice smashing into bells with my head long enough, ain’t nobody gonna be able to ring my bell, if you know what I mean.
Let’s see, what else do I have to…oh yeah, ‘that!’ I think a little makiwara training with ‘that’ will strengthen ‘that’ immensely. Of course it may look a little ugly when callouses start appearing, but that’s a small price, and if even ‘that’ is a weapon, I will have achieved my goals and be the ultimate gung fu strong man!
I will be the strongest Kung Fu warrior in the world! Every body part will be thick, immense, dense, rippling with muscle, and able to be used in combat to the death! All hail to me…the possessor of the ultimate Kung Fu Chi Power!
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Where Did The Martial Arts Come From?
As one might expect, I was quite surprised by my co-workers viewpoint, the Philippines were famous for their martial arts, and so I tracked him down and queried him further. “Why do you think the martial arts are so bad?” I asked. This is the anecdote he told me.
“One day I decide I need know martial arts, so I go outside and hit tree. I chop like so (he did a downward chop, as if hammering down on somebody’s forehead), and a I chop and I chop. I do this karate two hour a day for two year.
“One weekend my neighbor have crazy party, and three in morning I go ask him to turn music down. He laugh at me, so I karate him. I chop his face and he turn upside down, so I go home and worry I kill him…that why Karate bad!”
I didn’t l reveal my grin, because he was serious, he really thought that karate was bad, and didn’t understand that his bizarre method of training, and his own lack of control, might have something to do with the art ‘being bad.’ But his story led me to wonder where and how the martial arts had been invented. I mean, the fighting disciplines are as old as the world’s second oldest profession, so how did they come about?
They came into being because somebody wanted to take something away from somebody, and they came from somebody wanting to stop somebody from taking something away from him. This is the same as lawyerism, but applied to the actual hit and punch that occurs when politics breaks down. Eventually, the idea of taking something away from somebody, or protecting your property from somebody reached the levels of armies and weapons of mass destruction.
The idea that what you have belongs to me, and I don’t have to pay you no stinkin’ money…that is where the martial arts came from. And people train to war, and steal money and property and wives and whatever else they covet. And, oddly, as my previous words indicate, the solution to this avarice and misbegotten art is…in the study of the true art.
You practice the art to be able to protect yourself, and in that practice you discover the truth of yourself…you realize your self worth, and the idea that you are honorable and suddenly you don’t have to fear others, or that they might take from you. On the day that every person on earth practices the martial arts immorality and war stop, and on that day everybody will know why the martial arts were invented. They come from inside, from the spirit within, from the honor that pulses with every beat of your heart and every breath you expel.
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A Very Intriguing Method For Making Martial Arts Chi
So we have a two part question here: how do you make chi, and how do you use it? Interestingly, the second is the answer to the first. Unfortunately, this results in a catch 22…how do you use it if you can’t make it, how do you make it if you can’t use it?
To solve this mystery let me give you an internal exercise and a drill, and see if you can solve the problem. The exercise is an old Bagua exercise named ‘Stroking the beard.’ The drill is based on the old ‘Catch hands’ game we used to play as children.
To Stroke the beard simply move the hands in medium circles, coming together at the chin and moving downward as if stroking a beard to your navel. To do this effectively you must relax your muscles, let your weight drop, breath low, and do it until you can do it with no distraction. Doing with no distraction means concentrating on only the exercise, and this is very crucial to your success.
Once you have stroked the beard for a couple of hours, find a friend and practice ‘Catch Hands.’ To do Catch Hands simply face your partner at handshake distance and let your hands relax at your sides. Your partner places his palms together and extends them in front of his body.
The object of this drill is to take your time, create lots of silence, and then catch his hands. Don’t slap at them, just catch them, like catching birds without breaking their wings, and do it gently. This simple move is the same motion needed to block or a strike, and is well worth practicing.
As you practice, over time you will become more adept at the exercise, and you will find yourself becoming calmer, jerking less, and that is when the benefits of stroking the beard are going to appear. You will find that energy flows down the center of your body and gathers at your center. It will be like a fountain that is bubbling backwards, and it will be as if energy is entering into your tan tien with every breath.
Eventually, you will be able to catch your partner’s hands easily and there will be nothing he can do about it. The important thing, though, is that you will feel the ‘universal energy’ that is chi. Keep practicing this exercise and you will experience some fascinating results, and it will be proof positive that you can create and use Martial Arts Chi.
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Quicker Reaction Time Through Traditional Martial Arts Practice
But to have a body is to have reaction time. If you conduct your self defense through a body then you have to have the time it takes to make that body work. It’s going to exist no matter what you do.
Unless, of course, you see what is happening before it happens and move with it. Or, better yet, move before it can even occur. You simply watch what is going to happen and insert your body into the desired place and time.
Training in Martial Arts techniques is going to help you do this. You create a plan, and you carry out the plan. Eventually, all actions can be predicted, eventually this carries into life, and life becomes something you can predict.
Of course, those that don’t believe this have there own way. A boxer or MMA specialist trains his body to react, but the other guy is also training his body to react, so what you have is two virtual robots bashing their bodies together, and less awareness. This is not shortening reaction time, it is increasing it, once you have been bashed enough times.
You have to be willing to face yourself and ask the question, what is reaction time, if you are going to to undo it. You are acting after something. But what?
Well, after reality has already occurred. That’s right, you are making your body do something because of something that has already happened, and thus you are already late, and thus you are a victim. You have to be a victim if you follow this path of muscle memorization, acting after something has happened means you are moving after somebody has already acted.
If you don’t want to be the victim, you have to seek out methods which do not have muscle memorization, and which short circuit reaction time. While classical martial arts practice (if you can find a pure school, and an instructor who knows what he is doing) doesn’t provide the glory, and sometimes seem a bit confusing, the fact of the matter is that they have been expressly designed to get rid of reaction times. Reality fighting methods may draw in the crowds, you will gain faster reaction time through traditional Martial Arts training.
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When It Comes To A Martial Arts Bible Several Books Have To Be Considered
The first book to be considered would be Karate Do Kyohan: The Master Text, by Gichin Funakoshi. The reason this book has to be considered is because it was the first to really offer a comprehensive look at the eastern fighting disciplines. Of course, it is slanted towards Karate, and it offers techniques and forms without real explanation, but it is a good book.
The next book to land in America with impact was the George Mattson book on Uechi Ryu. This was a huge read, offered hows and whys, and even went into some of the legends and real possibilities of the arts. While it was of more depth than Funakoshi’s epic, again, it didn’t cover grappling or throwing potentials.
Filling the space left by the first two books, and through the use of some of the most beautiful martial arts concepts ever inked, is Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere. While it goes too far in the opposite direction, not being concerned with any of the force arts, it is still a work head and shoulders above nearly all others. The book was scribbled and inked by Oliver Ratti and Adele Westbrook.
The next book on our list is Yang Family Secret Transmissions. This book is weak on form and technique, but absolutely amazing on presentation of concept. The trick is to be able to extrapolate these concepts to all arts and make them work.
One of the lesser known Martial Arts books is Taiki-ken. While the title translates as Japanese for Tai Chi Chuan, it deals more with Hsing I. Interestingly, while this book says little, it imparts huge, and it is one of those rare gems that a student must be ready for, or it will likely make no sense.
Last on the list, and the one that resides in relative obscurity, is The Master Instructor Course. It is a book, and it is accompanied by two videos which detail exactly what the author is saying. Hard or soft, intrinsic or external, striking or throwing, the author explains all, and it is an enlightenment for any who read it.
In summation, there will likely be some discussion as to what is necessary for a book to be considered a martial arts bible. Still, the writings on this list are crucial to the eastern fighting arts, and well worth the read. Of course, bible or not, all are of little value in the hands of studetns who are not willing to read, to think, and to put to work through diligent training.
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How The Various Martial Arts Create Power
The secret of Fah jing is to drop the weight into the earth, which causes a charge of energy to go up the legs and into the tan tien. This energy enters the tan tien, which causes an explosion of power to emanate from that point. The energy coursing out from this energy center can be directed and controlled into the arms, and into various martial arts techniques.
To ground one’s weight is not just jumping off a rock and landing on the earth. It is a method that will not work if one does not actually put his awareness into the action. Putting weight into the ground without awareness is like dropping an egg on the sidewalk…it just splats.
When you direct your awareness into the earth–and this is an actual perception apart from such things as eyes, ears, and so on–you will actually feel the pulse of energy in the lower body. It will feel like plasma, and you will suddenly feel a vast space and power inside your lower body. You will also become capable of motion that people only dream of.
Oddly, though the energy enters the tan tien, the whole body that becomes the storage center for the energy. The body will become a tool through which you can direct the energy coming out of from the tan tien. This is the point at which your training really starts to accelerate, because you have to analyze what geometric path the energy has to follow if you are going to put it into your martial arts techniques.
Do you generate an edge on vertical circle on one half of the body? Do you transfigure the chi from the vertical to the horizontal, then pulse it out the arm? Do you spiral it through the limbs, as would a Baqua master?
Obviously there are going to be many ways of utilizing this manifestation of energy, once you become able to make it and control it. The real point is to make your technique able to manifest the chi power easily and naturally. This is a two edged sword of physics that, to be truthful, not many martial artists teachers have been able to master.
What we are really saying, you see, is that the body is a motor, and this is a datum new to this planet and to our culture and to our martial arts. But if you can understand this data, which I call flux theory, then you will be able to do things with your chi that have, up to this point, been the stuff of legends. The golden age is on the rise, you see, and it is possible through understanding such things as martial arts fa jing.
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Three Martial Arts Dirty Tricks You Can Win A Life And Death Street Fight With
It’s not really much of a dirty tactic in these times, at least not as much as when I was in high school, but a good, swift kick to the peaches can win a back alley brawl quicker than fast. It doesn’t require a lot of martial arts training to do this, and it will distract the thug, and maybe even end the fight. When he rushes towards you do a front kick, or simply bring the leg up and let him run into your foot, and the fight is completed.
One important item you should understand, dirty fight or not, is to not take your eyes off his. If you launch a snap kick to his silly sacks, watch his eyes, and be willing to change tactics as you must. You will find that this eyeball thing can really change the fight.
For example, as you run at him throw something in his eyes. Heck, you can even spit at his eyes, and if you can make those lids flicker, you have just increased the odds of you living and him going down for the count. Even a quick flick of the fingers, an intention to make him think you are going for the eyes, might turn the tide in your favor.
Now, let’s say the fight is hot and heavy, and you have to do something or you are going to lose. Something you won’t learn in a polite training hall, and especially not in the MMA arena, or the UFC octagon, is to go after his fingers. One of the first things we were taught, back when I was first learning freestyle, was to use a snappy backfist to his open fingers as you close the distance.
If you can make him say ow, or even damage his fingers, you’ve got an edge. Make him blink, or make it so he can’t close a fist, or use his hands to grab, and you’ve essentially destroyed his weapons. The idea here is to win the fight, to walk away from the mugging, and to leave him with a better idea of how to behave in polite society.
Now, in closing, I know these tricks aren’t much, but they are an edge. If you want more than an edge, if you want a fighting chance, you really should find and concentrate on learning Martial Arts Techniques. Heck, a little time having a blast in the dojo, and you’re going to have Karate power, or Kung Fu power, or Kenpo Power, or Taekwondo Power, or whatever kind of power you want, and whether you use martial arts dirty tricks or not, you’re going to win the street fight.
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Getting A Martial Arts Black Belt In Less Than Two Years
Most systems hold to eight belt levels to black belt ranking, though a few junior belts are often added into the mix. Actually, this is too many belts, for people are kept on the runway too long. This became extremely obvious when I started teaching matrixing, for people started learning at faster rates, which upset the whole rate of learning martial arts systems.
The correct number of belt rankings should be four. This is usually a white belt, a green belt, a brown belt, and a black belt, which equates to beginner, intermediate, advanced, expert. Past that one would deal with assistant instructors and instructors.
The white belt student should learn basic forms. This would be the equivalent of kebon kata, and these kata teach nothing but basic blocks, stances, punches, and kicks. Time for learning would be 3-6 months.
The green belt should learn Pinan 1-5 (Heian 1-5). This a good mix of intermediate forms, and one will find all manner of grab arts, different and odd ways of developing blocks, more advanced kicks, and so on. Time to learn would be about a year.
A brown belt student should learn advanced patterns depending on the size and shape of his body. A larger student might consider learning sanchin, seisan and sanseirui. A smaller, more nimble student might might consider learning umbe, botsai and the Horse Kata.
The time necessary to get from brown belt to black belt would be 6 months, though, I have to admit, I often teach faster than that. I teach at a faster rate of speed because I coordinate the number of techniques to the forms, and this gives a better reality to the movements. The real trick, however, is matrixing, for that procedure tends to uncover all the hidden mysteries, and to arrange the material in a logical and much easier to learn format.
Whether you know matrixing or not, however, you should arrange your classes so that they are a couple of hours long, and you teach at least three times a week. One of the reasons martial arts schools have failed is because schools have become polite and ordered and there is no sense of urgency to learning. Quite seriously, your life could well depend on how fast you can get to a Martial Arts Black Belt.
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