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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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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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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Searching For The Best Shaolin Kung Fu Martial Art Is A Difficult Task!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase44.jpg]Considering the high quality of the art, which is the best Shaolin Kung Fu is a tough question. I mean, people don’t teach it just to make greenbacks, they teach it solely because they love the art. Still, there are ways to define the best gung fu.
First, even thought they be interesting, we can usually dismiss such arts as Lohan Quan. The reason for this is because they are a different kind of kung fu. Wushu is actually a martial art that has been largely developed by the communist government of China, and one does not feel like learning something which has politically correct overtones, and from which the self defense techniques have been removed.
So we stay with the old styles of Chinese Gung Fu, the versions that leaked out of China before the great cultural revolution. These were the arts passed down through the generations, given from family member to family member to develop a true martial arts lineage. These are the Kung Fu styles in which the fires of true self defense techniques were flamed fanatically.
Many of these old Gung Fu schools claim they are descended from the Shaolin Temple, but there is actually no real proof of the claims. Still, people accept certain martial arts styles as being the real goods when it comes to these claims. Thus we end up with three martial arts which have good lineage, and are of such high quality of Shaolin technique that they can be looked to as a possible answer to the best kung fu.
There are two distinct Praying Mantis kung fu schools, the north and the south, and these can further be broken down into specific styles. The main feature of Praying Mantis (Tong Long) is the hooking and clawing movements, which enable a fighter to keep an opponent immobilized long enough to flatten him. This is a good answer to our question, but tends to be a bit specialized.
There are also many styles of Ving Tsun Gung Fu, which is the art made famous by Bruce Lee (the Little Dragon), and which features the close in strategy of the Sticky Hands exercise. Sticky Hands (Chi Sau) has one of the best methods for creating ‘closed eye’ intuition. It does have several problems, however, such as immobile stances, workability concentrated in on specific ranges, and that type of thing.
The strongest kung fu, but lacking some of the close in work of the previous arts mentioned, is Hung Gar. Hung Gar is also taught as Choy Li Fut, Fut Ga, and so on, and it is considered the quintessential shaolin martial art in China. For all it’s strength, however, it does have certain stylistic problems, as the techniques don’t always relate to real life situations.
Now, of the three arts, I believe Praying Mantis may be the strongest. However, this is a personal opinion, and one should really study all three and focus on the points which are of most personal benefit. Really, in the final analysis, the best Shaolin Kung fu is going to be that kung fu which has been personalized, and which fits the person studying it the best.
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How To Have The Most Powerful Karate Kick In The World!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase27.jpg] Do you want a powerful Karate kick! A kick so powerful you could kick a bully in the belly and make him barf his beans? A kick so strong that a mule runs the other way when he sees you coming?
Well, you can certainly have one of those kicks! In fact, all of your kicks should be that strong! All you have to do is construct one, little training aid.
Now, before I tell you how to make that training device, I want to offer a warning. You have to make sure that all the segments of your kick are in proper alignment. You have to make sure that the ankle is set at the proper angle, the hips are turned the correct angle, and, most important, that you sink your weight so deep into the earth you could strike oil!
If the ankle is crooked you’re going to hurt the heck out of your ankle when you execute your kicks. Trying punching with a crooked wrist, you’ll feel the instant pain, and this is what will happen with the ankle if you don’t have it in the proper position. Walk on the side of your foot, the ankle is bent, and it won’t be long until it starts shouting bloody murder for you to straighten up and fly right!
If the hip is not turned just the right angle, you won’t have any weight behind your kick. The hips are the cornerstone of the body, they have to be angled right, or the weight of them won’t go into the kick, and the whole body risks being out of order, out of sorts, and out of commission right in the middle of a mugging! You simply must have the hips committed to the attack, or your attack is going to be weak sister, and I know you know exactly what I mean!
Now, I’ve told you the importance of making sure your kick is done right, and it’s time to tell you how to construct a train aid that will change your feet into missile launchers! Get yourself a big wooden crate, the kind with thick boards, the kind that can take being dropped off a freeway overpass and come out laughing. Now, double layer it, nail on some more boards so it is extra thick, and can take double the stomping!
Put a car in the crate, or at least a motor or axle or something that really weighs a lot. Or fill that puppy with boulders and dirt, line it with plastic first, then pile in the debris. Now you’ve got something that weighs more than one of those sissy everlast kicking bags…you’ve got something that weighs even more than one of those home invaders you’re about to make a sissy crybaby out of, you’ve got yourself a real romper stomper, kicking bag.
Now, kick it in the center, and make it move, make it jump, make it dance like a little girl doing the hula. Kick that sucker until it slides across the ground faster than a drag racer getting the green light. Kick it until you’re legs are stronger than telephone poles, and that’s how you end up with powerful kicks that can knock a bully so far into next next week that he needs a calender to know what time it is.
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Why Mixed Martial Art Fighters Are Pursuing Sport And Not Art
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase17.jpg]I know that whenever I write one of these pieces on Mixed Martial Art fighters I am going to get hate mail, but the truth is the truth, and one can only hope to rescue the misbegotten. That bit of drab aside, I actually love and admire MMA, especially the UFC grudge fights. There is enough Roman in my bit of soul to enjoy the circus.
Now, the main reason such contests as offered by Strike Force and the venerable Ultimate Fighting Championships aren’t art is because of a lack of control. When Joe Beatemup is mounting Billy Mouthpiece and the announcer is praising his control, take his words with a grain of salt. The contest, you see is real, and the fact of control is shaky at best.
Real control means that you are controlling the other fighter so well they don’t even know what you are doing. There is no contest for control (a superior position), but rather an actual artistic application wherein Mr. Victim feels like he is in a whirlwind, and Mr. Incharge is definitely and surely taking the other fellow for a ride. True control is control without any shade of doubt, or even any contest.
This is like the difference between a housepainter and a Van Gogh. Yes, the house painter deals with paint, and he may even get a calm and peaceful and artistic feeling about what he is doing. But he is not controlling the brush in any manner comparable to Van Gogh.
Now, let’s not take anything away from the MMA fighters. To say there is no art in the execution of their contest is silly. But, and this is a big but, it does lead to the big and most important difference between the Mixed Martial Arts Masters and those who practice the True Art. The difference is that in the true art there is going to be no contest.
In the true art an opponent is considered to be a training aid. The contest is not to beat up one’s fellow man, you see, it is to get rid of the desire to fight (and therefore have enemies). And that brings to mind the old but oh so accurate saw, ‘To know yourself is to know your enemy.’
If you are engaged in beating people up…you are not seeking peace within your own soul. And, one can hope that, eventually, the young turks of the gladiatorial ring will one day renounce their brutality and search for the true art. They will seek to understand their drive to contest with others, and realize that the truth is within themselves.
Then all of their mighty potential will be turned to beneficial ends. Then their sport will make the transformation into art, and the circus will become an event of significance. The real joy for this writer, you see, is when one of the Mixed Martial Arts fighters has an artistic moment, and the true art does shine forth.
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Win Every Fight With The Only Three Techniques Of Kickboxing Karate
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AlCase9.jpg]I know, kickboxing karate doesn’t really exist, but it does make a fine translation of arts. When you shift from karate to kickboxing, or shift from kickboxing back to karate, you can win every single contest you are in by knowing the three things I am going to tell you in this article. We are dealing only with the fists, mind you, so you have to control the distance to make sure that you stay at a distance that is comfortable for you to punch at.
If you are going to try to use this strategy with the feet we would have to create an art called karate tae kwon do…grin. Or, if you were going to use it with fancy arm closing tricks we might call it JKD Karate. Call it anything you want, the concepts will work, but you might have to tailor them some.
Before we get started I should tell you about the set up for the three techniques. The set up is to have the hands extended, palms facing outward, elbows about 135 degrees, so that the hands are in front of the shoulders. This, incidentally, is a universal peace sign, an ‘I don’t want to fight,’ which is a good thing because it is better to avoid a fight in the first place.
The basic concept here is that two objects can’t be in the same place in space. Go on, shove one table through another table. You’ll just end up with fire wood.
First Technique, he is going to have to go around your fist and arms, and you can defend with a hard block and punch. This isn’t a counter strike, this is done simultaneous with a slight body shift/sidestep maneuver. You will have taken the initiative of the fight and can follow up with an attack on the inside line.
Second technique, he is going to try shifting to the front and leading with a jab, and you can just let him pass and punch on his body. With either of these two techniques your opponent is trying to go around you, and this will set him up by shutting his weapons down, or opening his targets up. Either way, you win.
Third technique, and this is the one we want to really go for, is when he tries to go between your hands. He can be stopped easily, and, the potential for trapping him, simply by bringing your hands together, is large. You push his elbow and his wrist and develop an arm bar, and when he tries to back out, or otherwise escape, you elbow roll him, and you can work elbow spikes and secondary punches, all while keeping him trapped and unable to fight back.
This fighting technique can further be improved by shifting the body or changing the distance between your palms, thus encouraging your attacker to do exactly what you want. In other words, you will have created the path of his entry, and nobody is easier to beat than a fighter who is predictable. So, there you go, that is how you actually apply matrixing concepts to the first moves of a fight, and when you win that battle just tell everybody you study kickboxing karate…heh.
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I Used Martial Arts To Cut Open His Chest…And Found The Real Me.
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AlCase29.jpg] I had been studying the martial arts about twenty years when this happened. I had studied Ed Parker Chinese Kenpo and Kang Duk Won Korean Karate, Wing Chun and Aikido, and lots of other things. I was working in a door factory, and some of the fellows knew that I studied the martial arts.
One day, lunchtime, and this fellow asked me to show him some martial arts. We went into a back room. It was dim and noisy, and we had to really concentrate to hear each other.
I was showing him suburito, which are basic Aikido sword exercises. I was showing him how to stand a certain way and hold the sword straight up in a ready position. Suddenly, I felt a huge force grab a hold of me; it was like the hand of a 100 foot tall giant.
I couldn’t stop the motion of the sword, and it sliced down behind me. A guy named Eddie had been sneaking up on me, and the sword cut through his plaid shirt and into the flesh of his chest. It was a ragged wound, blood poured out, and he staggered back against a stack of pallets and clutched at his chest.
It was first aid time, and Eddie was going to have to take a trip to the hospital and get his chest sewn back together. While we were standing there, trying to staunch the flow of blood, I asked Eddie a question, “What were you doing?” He said, “I was going to get you, man.
I was going to grab a hold of you. It was just a gag, I thought it would be funny.” Sensing something beneath his simple explanation, I asked him, “What were you thinking, right when it happened?”
He muttered, “I thought I was going to get you. Right when I was starting to jump I thought, ‘Aha…got him!’ And then you cut me open!”
The flesh is a fence, and the eyes and ears are like searchlights watching what goes on outside the fence. With the martial arts you start moving energy around inside the fence, and you start to become more perceptive. Eventually you become aware outside the flesh. You learn how to see without the eyes and ears.
And, you become aware that you are more than just a body, you are a 100 foot giant spiritual being. The point here is that whether you study Kenpo or Karate, Kung Fu like Wing Chun, or something else, the answers are there, the martial arts can help you find the real you. You just need to work out hard enough, and in an art that is logical and efficient.
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The One Thing You Need To Know To Have The Most Powerful Punch On Earth!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AlCase13.jpg]Power, in the Martial Arts, especially martial arts like Kenpo or Shaolin is often measured by how hard you can hit. Thus, people beat the stuffings out of the punching bag and the Makiwara, and they do push ups to strengthen themselves, and…and they are doing it all wrong. You see, there is one essential thing that they don’t understand, and so all their push ups and punches are having less effect than they would wish.
I want to make a point here…and I can only do that by asking you one specific question. Where, during your punch, do your arms bear the most weight? The answer is obvious, they bear it at the end of the punch, when the arm is nearly extended.
So why do you need to work your arm across the whole range of motion? Being strong at the beginning or middle of the push up is not where you need the strength. Concentrating your work out through the whole range of motion of the arm is not putting energy into the impact part of the punch where you need it.
So, when you do a work out, make it gentle and general, and build up your body and your arms as a whole unit, then focus your work out on the end of the punch where you need it. This is easy to do, you can do it for virtually any exercise there is. All you have to do it isolate the part of the exercise where the arm is nearly extended, and concentrate your efforts on that part of the exercise.
Let’s say you’re doing that mainstay of all exercise, a simple push up. Do the push up until your arms are almost full length, and that’s where the real work out starts to occur. Do as many six inch push ups with the arms almost at full length, as you can, fast, concentrating on keeping your belly taut and having excellent form.
Here’s the point of it all, you need to concentrate the work out, and feel the power, in your shoulders. When you punch something the jolt of impact is going to go up your arms and directly into the shoulders. Thus, it is the shoulders that must become strong and dense, it is the shoulders, as felt in the last six inches of the push up, that must be built up.
Make the shoulders thick and dense, and do the exercise at various times of the day, until the muscles of the shoulders become as matter of fact as the leg muscles of a marathon runner. It’s funny that people have never thought of this, and I wonder at it, but it is common sense. I suppose the problem is that people get a general idea of exercise and never actually look at the exact goal they are trying to accomplish.
So do those ‘long arm 6 inch push ups like they are going out of style. Do them and put your awareness in your shoulders, letting your shoulders lightly bulk and become immensely dense. This is the way you develop a punch that is stronger than the next fellows, this is how you create the most powerful punch in the universe.
Al Case, The Doctor of the Punch, has studied martial arts 4O years. If you want the straight goods on how to build the most powerful punch in the world, pay him a visit at Punch ‘Em Out.
