How Long Does It Take To Earn A Kung Fu Black Belt
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase28.jpg]In Hapkido, Shaolin or kenpo there is a certain length of time that it should take to earn a black belt. These things are pretty much standard, but have been abused and altered by the various martial arts schools. Still, it is possible, if you understand certain basic facts about the fighting disciplines, to make your system easy to learn in as little as a couple of years.
First, you should understand that karate, kenpo and taekwondo come from the same roots, and that is why there is a relative standard of time that it takes to achieve the first dan. Ed Parker learned and taught karate in the beginning of kenpo, and tekwondo developed form the eight houses, or Kwans, that were basically karate. Kung Fu based arts still rely on the same commonality of body motion, and thus are prone to the same rules.
There should be eight patterns to the expert belt ranking. These forms are usually the five pinans, and they have lineage to Okinawa and have equivalent forms in taekwondo. Kenpokas and other types of stylists will have to delve into their arts further to find eight forms that define what they are doing.
There should be about 72 techniques learned. This is the number of techniques that if practiced will cover the basics of the art, and will take a student to the intuitive state of mind that is necessary to be promoted to the dan ranks. More than this and it is confusing, less than this and there isn’t (normally) enough data.
The art should consist of a study of patterns, techniques, and actual fighting. Blending martial arts forms, bunkai and fighting allows the idea of a perfect technique to be built and bridged from theory to reality. Any art that isn’t made up of these three elements should actually not be considered an art, as it will not give the gains, no matter what anybody says, that are possible through a study of the three elements.
The direction of the art should be always be aimed towards good control. No matter how people state that an art must be made more real, it becomes less real as it forsakes control. One must learn to control their body, their fellow man, and then the world becomes a better place where conflicts are less likely to occur.
An art should be a study of power, speed and technique. While power doesn’t necessarily always lead one to speed, speed can nearly always lead one to power, so speed is better than power. Technique, of course, dealing exactly with control, is always going to be superior to both.
These factors all adhered to, along with a proper understanding of basics, and one can earn a black belt in as little as one year, though two years is probably the average time. To learn faster than that indicates that the person hasn’t spent enough time actually controlling his body, and so lacks the basics of controlling his mind. To learn slower is to waste your time.
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Understanding An Ascetic To Become A Neutronic Being Through The Martial Arts
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase18.jpg]There are three main roadways when one chooses to become enlightened, and these can be considered when becoming a Neutronic Being: warrior, priest, ascetic. There are other roads, but these three pretty much sum up the main roads. While they seem contrary at first glance, these paths do have certain similarities, and it is these similarities that we will examine in this article.
The priest studies scripture and passes it along, thus he helps people. The warrior studies the ways of war, ostensibly protecting people, and therein is the lie. The ascetic has studied enough, has harmed enough, and turns his back on it all.
Neutronically, these three personalities are easy to understand. Understanding comes from the fact of realizing the truth of the motion of the persons involved, one does not even need to predict the outcome of any particular motion. The priest travels in accordance with, the warrior moves towards, and the ascetic runs away.
To become Neutronic one must embrace all three motions. One cannot become Neutronic without understanding all three motions. One must be able to apply the correct motion in the correct instance.
When a fellow comes to you for advice, will you choose to be his confessor, his murderer, or turn your back on all he says? All three solutions have demerit and worth, and one must understand all three to be able to select the correct motion. Indeed, if you don’t understand the benefits and inherent harm of even one of the three motions, that will be your weakness and your undoing.
Thus, a man comes to you and hates his fellow man. Will you counsel him to murder, will you tell him to pray, when such method will only result in bottled up rage, or will you turn your back on him? Or, can you get him to murder his rage and turn his back on his less than spiritual self?
To understand the path to Neutronicity here, and become capable of giving correct and encompassive advice, you must do two things. You must study the Matrix of the Martial Arts, and so unfold within yourself the discipline necessary to change and dedicate yourself. You must study the Neutronic Scriptures so as to be able to understand why it all is.
Only through the application of this specialized knowledge will you become able to be changed into a Neutronic Being. This is not a highway of ritual and meditation. This is the roadway of educating oneself, disciplining oneself, and self realization.
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The Martial Arts As A Pathway To The God Concept
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase7.gif]Up to this point in time the idea of reaching an awareness of the God Concept through the martial arts was considered nigh impossible. If one wants to reach God, the reasoning goes, one must enlist in an establishment and follow the rules of the establishment. This flies in the face of the power of the ‘I am’ that actuates the human form.
If one examines the writings of martial artists over the ages, one can see that there is a distinct and pervading spirituality that evolves as one studies the martial arts. This spirituality has been achieved by such luminaries as Morihei Ueshiba, and is available to all who are willing to follow a set series of steps. Following are the distinct steps that one must follow.
The doing of martial arts patterns and technique provide a discipline beyond what is experienced in the work a day world. This discipline reaches far beyond the same old same old world of public education, and right into the spirit motivating the body. This discipline, if followed, will liberate the spirit quite effectively.
Knowing that one has a body points to there existing something in the universe other than a body. ‘Who drives the auto’ is the question, and one stops being a passenger in this universe and begins the journey to controlling the vehicle. Thus, the body becomes a car, and the car is a mechanism to hold the spirit, and the martial artist stops looking at the body as a body and starts considering it as a temple motivated by the spirit.
To speed up this procedure one should matrix the martial art they are engaged in. This is the applying of common sense and physics to the apparently random motions that the sequencing of favored martial arts moves has become. Thus, ones progress is not measured by endless sit ups to God, which can, quite truthfully, take a little longer than forever, but rather through the ordered thrust of awareness through the body.
This mechanism is my body, and it does what I want. This covering is my skin, and to go through and beyond the boundary of skin is possible through kata and the cultivation of extra senses, and if I unlimit myself in this fashion I will experience directly a universe where spirituality is the dominant ‘force.’ This is possible through studying the martial arts, and enhanced through the technology known as Matrixing.
Utilizing Matrixing in the Martial Arts, one quickly discovers this other universe. And one discovers the superiority of this other universe, and that this other universe imposes over the commonly excepted and sense proven universe. Indeed, one discovers that this superior universe has always been there, in conjunction with the sense proven universe, and, in actuality, it has only been through the actuation of the Divine Universe that the sensory universe been made to work at all.
Ultimately, as one forays into and tames this other and more superior universe of the spirit, one discovers that his nature, unlimited from body, is Neutronic: that he is a Neutronic Being. The universe follows certain rules, and these rules are defined through a study and application of Neutronics. Thus, through an awareness of first Matrixing, and then Neutronics, the Martial Arts become valid as one of the four paths to the God Concept.
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Three Street Fighting Martial Arts Moves That I Don’t Really Recommend!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase34.jpg]I’ve taught for over forty years, and I’ve seen street fighting martial arts moves that work, and martial arts moves that don’t work. Of course, I haven’t seen everything that isn’t going to work. It seems like there is always some idjut that will invent a new move that doesn’t work.
To start with an weird one, I don’t recommend a front kick or side kick to the face. People dodge that one intuitively and throw you inadvertently by flailing their arms. On the other weird hand, if you do a flying side kick to the head, or a spinning kick to the head, it can actually work.
I’ve actually seen it happen on the street, and the reason it worked was because it shocked the crap out of the guy being kicked. He honestly was confused by all the body motion happening. Of course, he obviously didn’t know martial arts, but still, if you practice it hard enough, you might be able to make it work when the guy doesn’t know what he is doing.
I also don’t recommend stomping on feet, not because they don’t work, but because a kick to the knee seems a little easier to make work, and produces more damage. It’s easier for a fellow to move the foot out of the way than it is to move the knee if you’re standing on that leg. One has to lift the knee and shift the weight, and that tells a person that something is happening.
On the other hand, you must learn how to do a knee stomp effectively if you’re going to make it work. Don’t lift the foot (your knee) too high, because, again, the fellow will see it coming. Try doing it old style, lifting the knee just high enough, then slamming it out.
I don’t recommend take downs if you haven’t trained excessively in them. Too many people see the UFC and want to slam a body, but those guys in the ring have many years of experience, they know what’s going down. They know what to do if the takedown turns into a wrestling match.
They know what tricks to do once they are on the street. And, they know enough to avoid the takedown if the situation isn’t quite right. Really, though slamming the body looks cool, those guys in the ring only use it when they can get away with it, or when that is the only strategy that is going to work.
Okay, I know there will be people with arguments with what I’ve said here, and there should be. After all, everybody comes from different schools and have different martial arts styles. Still, you can use my observations as a basis for figuring out what works for you when it comes to using street fighting martial arts techniques.
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True Data Concerning Black Belt Rankings In The Various Martial Arts
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase16.jpg]Black Belt rankings were originated by Master of Judo Jigoro Kano. Master Kano is supposed to have created his system based on rankings used by swimming clubs. Karate clubs throughout the Land of the Rising Sun borrowed his ranking system.
The original karate system is supposed to have been based on only two belts, white belt and black belt. As more and more people came to study, two more belts were added, green belt and brown belt. Eventually Chinese American Kenpo was devised by Karate pioneer Ed Parker, and the number of colored belts grew greatly.
Belts of color were setup in the following ranking: white, orange, purple, blue, green, three stages of brown, different stages of black. As the belt ranking systems expanded, legends having to do with the significance of the colors grew. Each martial arts school seemed to have a different reason for the belt colors.
White and black, in the beginning, didn’t mean much, as there were so few students and the promotions were pretty cut and dried. White meant beginner, and black belt meant the student was used as an assistant instructor. As the belt systems expanded this concept quickly gave way to instructor rankings.
White, green, brown and black were supposed to relate to the spring, summer, fall and winter of the martial arts life of a student. This also aligned with the concept of beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert status. This concept, while worthwhile, gave way when more colors were added.
The full range of colors introduced by Chinese Kenpo Systems was related to a full spectrum of achievement. Rightly or wrongly, a Kenpo student was assumed, when he made it to black belt, to know everything in the spectrum. This concept began to decline when red belts were introduced.
At first, red belts were used to honor high ranking masters, these were sometimes politically motivated belts, though there were some legitimate rankings. Then, because people tend to promote themselves to the highest rank possible, the red belt replaced the black belt in many peoples estimation, and the spectral system broke apart. This was aided by the fact that some systems, especially taekwondo systems, began replacing the brown belt with the red belt.
In current times, while colored belts are said to be motivational in student lessons, the fact of the matter is that there has been some abuse. Many commercial martial arts schools have lengthened training time to align with the increased rankings to keep people at their schools for longer periods of time, and this has extended the length of time it takes to learn the martial arts. It is hoped that understanding the basic facts of Black Belt rankings, as described in this article, will help potential students when they analyze possible arts to study.
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Ed Parker And Bruce Lee Were Traitors To The Martial Arts!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase7.gif]I always enjoy pointing out that people like Ed Parker and Bruce Lee were bad guys in the martial arts. People always get upset with me and even want to beat me up. Then, when I tell them the truth, they can’t do anything but mumble a lot.
Ed Parker apparently never made it to Black Belt in the system taught by William K. S. Chow. Heck, halfway through teaching his students on the mainland, he had to go home to Hawaii because he ran out of material and needed more. And, Professor Chow told him no.
So he made up martial arts, hired a kung fu artist to help make up new forms and techniques, redid his system (five times), and so on. The result was that he could award tenth degree black belts, host tournaments, inspire the starting of chains of schools, and some people hold that he was only a brown belt. And the whole world was fooled into accepting him as the grand poobah of martial arts, and hardly anybody but a dedicated Kenpoist knows where he learned.
And if you think Ed Parker wasn’t very nice, wait until you consider Bruce Lee! Bruce ‘The Little Dragon’ Lee apparently didn’t even complete his Wing Chun studies. He got embroiled in the street gangs of his native country and his parents finally had enough of his bad ways and sent him to cool off in the UAS of A! In the US, though he hadn’t completed his Ving Tsun training in China, he started teaching that martial art to whoever wanted to learn.
Not knowing the whole wing chun art, though, he began bolstering it up with martial arts techniques from boxing, fencing, and 24 other martial arts styles. Yes, he was a sponge, but he was teaching Kung Fu to anybody who wanted it, betraying his race (according to some), and teaching stuff that went far beyond the classical martial arts. He was teaching a wild eclectic Jeet Kune Do style that went far beyond the classical karate kata training of the time.
The culmination was a fight with no winner (Wong Jack Man), and then he throws it all away for Hollywood! Is that the mark of a true martial artist? Or is that some unbalanced fellow whining for fame?
Now, it is time for this writer to fess up. Most of you readers know what I am doing anyway. I am engaging in a little yellow journalism for sarcastic sake.
Ed Parker, Bruce Lee, and other pioneers studied sufficient in the classical to know what it was, then they chose, for whatever reasons, their own directions. They then outshone their teachers and systems, and expanded the martial arts to the benefit of all. Yes, Bruce Lee and Ed Parker were traitors, as are all true visionaries, as need to be anybody who wants to go beyond stiff training methods and learn the truth of the martial arts.
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Three Steps To Making Deadly Martial Arts Moves
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase11.jpg] Everybody wants their training to result in the deadliest Martial Art Techniques, but most schools don’t deliver. Teaching children, training for tournaments, these concepts take from the combative arts. Interestingly, one need only understand the three stages of technique, or bunkai, and it doesn’t matter whether you do karate or kenpo or Aikido or whatever, and your art is going to get pretty darned deadly.
The basic idea and principle of what you are doing must be understood. Often there are a bunch of little things that need to be understood, but they come together in a single idea. This idea is presented in the form, and it is why things like Karate kata or taekwondo poomse are actually vital training tools.
The form, you see, is a perfect idea. You practice it without distractions and you attempt to make each motion as perfect as possible. You cut down such things as reaction times, and you train your body to move like a well oiled machine.
The second thing you need to do is apply the individual parts of the forms in bunkai, or applications. You need to make the technique work through controlled distraction, you need to experience resistance. Most important, you need to understand the reality of what happens when bodies collide with bodies.
The idea here is that you need to have somebody try to stop you from doing your tricks. This enables you to deal with real live opposition, and go through the doors that will enable you to make a trick work, and to find all the ‘what ifs’ that will get in the way of that workability. This is perfection pushed new levels of difficulty; this is learning how to make the art work in spite of anything that might get in the way.
The third thing is to take your skills onto the mat and make them work. Here your kenpo techniques may not be so beautiful, in spite of anything Mr. Parker might say, and you are going to have to push through all resistance and make them be usable, in some fashion, anyway. Ultimately, as you test these applications and find the working parts, you are going to find the perfection of art available in such forms as sochin and bassai and even lowly kebon.
The thing you have to watch out for, in this process of making the art work, is coming to believe in violence as a solution. You must not allow the Joy of Combat, for that is a lie. You must, in spite of the chaotic nature of the art you study, hold to a calm, inner peace; you must control yourself until you find yourself.
The martial arts are a method of discovering yourself through intense workouts, and through the seeking and isolating of perfection in every technique you do. Perfection is there, you know, but there is a price that must be paid. Deadly Martial Arts Techniques, you see, are found only by seeking inner peace.
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If You Can’t Do These Strength Feats Then You Aren’t Bruce Lee Tough!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase45.png]People like to think they are tough. They break a few boards and swagger around and make grunting sounds. But once you read the following list of feats, you are going to know that these fellows aren’t anywhere near Bruce Lee tough!
Do you want to be faster than a snake taking a does of steroids? Try placing your hands at your sides and striking. Bruce Lee could manage a punch from this relaxed stance in five hundredths of a second!
You think those cannon balls you call biceps will impress the ladies? Try holding a dumb bell against your body, then put your arms straight out. Bruce Lee could hold 75 pounds straight out in this manner for 20 seconds!
Oh, you don’t have a 75 pound dumb bell hanging around? Okay, let’s try something easy. Bruce could do 50 one armed chin ups!
Bruce Lee was stronger in his fingers than you are in your whole body! He could do push ups on his thumb and forefinger. We’re talking only one hand here!
Bruce Lee’s fingers were so powerful he could stick a finger through the side of a filled soda can! And this was back in the day when cans were real! They were made of steel, and not this thin, aluminum crap!
Here’s one of my favorites, a trick that would put any magician to shame. If you put a dime in your hand and held it out, Bruce Lee could snatch the dime off your palm…and leave you a penny! Now that is speed!
Now, I know you are looking at that one inch pine board you just smashed and are doubting yourself, but you don’t have to. Bruce Lee was special, and he did the thigns he did by incredible hard work. So, instead of feeling like you oughta go put on a dress, just get to work and make your own self…Bruce Lee tough!
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I Stomped On Eight Deadly Ninjas In A Bar Fight Using Spetsnaz Karate Techniques!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase17.jpg]Eight ninjas with Super Secret Spetznatz karate techniques? I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that this is possibly the worst hoax ever perpetrated on a gullible, wanna be karate student.
Now the catalogue of this kind of crap is huge. Over the past couple of decades I have seen–take a breath–super secret ninja death commando spetznat cyberneurotic Green Beret government doesn’t want you to know eight barroom killer tricks. And the list is a lot longer, but you know the kind of tripe what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about cheaters who bilk you out of hard earned bucks by promising you the moon, then give you watered down, generic outhouse stuffings and call it the real martial arts. I saw one the other day, Captain Chris, or Major X, or whatever he called himself. He’s still selling the same bullwash and calling it gold, and getting rich off unsuspecting, honest martial arts practitioners.
Now you and I know one simple truth…there is no excuse for hard work. If you want to be able to defend yourself then you have to work out, and work out long and hard. Fortunately there is one other simple truth…working out is fun!
When you work out you build up a sweat, you get rid of poisons in the body, your mind starts to think better, and you get this world beating confidence. A confidence that makes you feel like you’re a giant. A confidence that tells you–yes, you can conquer the world!
Now, the story behind these ‘I beat eight skinhead bikers in a bar in the Ozarks’ is pretty dumb. The author has gotten a hold of a few DVDs, or watched the net, and he realizes that the right hand can block both the a right fist and a left fist, and most attackers use their fists, and if you watch the shoulder you can see when he’s going to move. So he puts together eight tricks where you attack eight different ways, and gives it a phony scientific title.
Look, I’m not pulling your leg, it really is that simple, and it really is that shabby. I mean, why not just go ahead and study the art, find out about another culture, practice an exotic discipline, and really learn something? When you really know the true martial arts you will laugh very hard at those killer commando death techniques, those so called youtube experts with their snippets of bushwah, those super secret CIA agents who learned from Shaolin Monks in a hidden monastery.
Those people who try to sell you ‘become a killer quick’ courses are just reaching into your pocket and stealing your money. It’s best if you toss out those comic book notions and find a real martial arts teacher and learn the truth. Look, there is nothing wrong with studying on your own, you just need to seek out the real art and not fall for that super secret spetznatz karate techniques.
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The Six Best Procedures To Learn Martial Arts
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase20.jpg]There will be preferences if you want to learn Martial Art, but there are also a couple of things that are fairly obvious, and that we will be able to agree on. Interestingly, I came across this data many years ago, and have used it myself. It deals with analyzing the value of media in transmitting data. The worst method for absorption of data is the movies or TV. This is because the martial art techniques that you will see on the screen, whether it is the art of Bruce Lee, Jet Li, or whoever, has been altered for the camera. Yes, it may look good, but stuntmen and camera cuts are making it look good.
Almost as bad as the screen, and it might even be considered a toss up with these two, is the web. While there can be pearls in that there computer stream, the dreck is overwhelming. Dial into the internet for the purpose of actually trying to learn something (as opposed to just surfing around for fun) and you engage a common brain that doesn’t know any better, pseudo experts, overwhelming amounts of information with no real instruction or even organization of data, what’s neat, advertising that hasn’t and can’t be tested for worth, and etcetera.
The third weakest way to educate oneself would be to try to learn from magazines. Now, this is not to be discounted, magazines do give you an overall viewpoint of what’s going on–and not just in the classical arts–and can give a good education as to what is out there. Good writing and the dedication of the magazine to find out what the reader is really interested in, and the tendency of the worthwhile ads to stick around, makes this a good source of finding out about different martial arts.
Fourth weakest would be martial arts DVDs. Now, I should say weakest, but third strongest, because one can dial into a specific art, delve into that art in detail, and really get some great instruction. Honestly, it’s a toss up between this and the next item on the list, almost a tie, but I settled on the order you see because there are just so many bad DVDs out there–it’s just too easy to string some fighting techniques together, slap a pseudo scientific label on it, and use internet marketing to blast it past common sense.
Second best and of very high value, when it comes to the learning process goes to martial arts books. With books you might not get the visual look, but if you have any instruction in a training hall, books will do the trick. Furthermore, you can get the most detail, in depth theory, the most fully thought out concepts in books–and if you can get a video to go along with it then you really are on to something.
The best method for learning the the combat discipline, no doubt about it, is to take a martial arts class at a good training hall, one where they teach not just the blood and guts, but the heart and soul. You’ll find friendships that last a lifetime, styles of combat that stuck around for thousands of years, and some pretty darned good times. Add to that that you can ask a question about anything you want right on the spot, and the worth of this method is undeniable.
People study according to their opportunity and means, thus, none of the methods I have mentioned can be totally discounted. And, the smart student will do a mix and match and educate himself so that there are no weaknesses in his arts. In the end, every man is self made, and learning Martial Arts is the best method for making oneself.
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