When It Comes To A Martial Arts Bible Several Books Have To Be Considered
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AlCase28.jpg]I see advertisements for a Martial Arts Bible every once in a while, and it’s a clever advertisement. I mean, the idea for a book that answers all questions, it’s a good one, and it’s necessary. Here are a list of books which I think need to be considered, with the last one really hitting the button.
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
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AlCase0.jpg]When it come to generating real martial arts power one has to consider the concept of Fa Jing. This is the simple explosion of energy from the energy center that makes such arts as Karate, Shaolin, Tai Chi, and other traditional martial arts superior to sports. This is not to speak ill of the art of fisticuffs, this is just to say that there is a concept that, if followed, will create a superior human being.
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
October 13, 2010 by Alton Case
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[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AlCase17.jpg]I almost feel guilty, giving out a few martial arts dirty tricks, when such things as Karate and Kung Fu really stand for honor and virtue. The sordid news, however, is that if you have to use your martial skill outside the training hall, fighting dirty may save your life. That said, here’s a few nasty, little things I’ve learned over the years that will help you walk away, and make him cry.
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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True Martial Arts Power Starts With Building Ideal Muscles
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AlCase10.jpg]Many people think that Real Martial Arts Power is the result of big muscles. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. To fully understand the power we are talking about here we must change our fundamental notion of what a muscle is and does.
The purpose of a muscle is to to pull, and thus to make a limb or body part move in a specific direction, or become tense for some purpose (impact). Thus, when somebody builds his biceps so people will think he has ‘big guns,’ he is reducing his punching power. Punching power comes from building the muscles on the other side of the arm, the triceps, which cause the limb to extend, which is where you’ll find a punch.
The point is to figure out which muscle, or set of muscles, results in what action, and then to isolate and work those specific muscles. Want hard punches? Then do a slow strike and examine the workings of your arm and body.
Figure out which muscles result in the extension of the arm, which muscles support the impact of the arm, and so on. This will enable you to develop specific exercises which will cause you power in the punching muscles…which will give you harder punches.
If you want to really gain some punching power, try doing ‘punch ups.’ These are push ups where you don’t go all the way to the ground, you only go down six inches, then up. This isolates and builds the exact muscles which come in to play in a knock out punch.
Yes, you should work other muscles, explore other variations of push ups, but concentrate a bit of your work out on punch ups and you will shortly be amazed at your growing ability to knock somebody all the way down. You should explore this concept for places where you will get hit. By this I mean some sort of wrestler’s bridge so you’ll have a strong neck, or some sort of crunches for when you get hit in the belly, and so on.
Now, the other thing you should be concentrating on is endurance. By this I mean you shouldn’t be growing a large, bulky muscle, for that weighs more, runs out of juice sooner, and is more awkward to move around. Instead, you should be growing dense muscles, muscles that are leaner and not fatter.
To do this you should reduce the weight you are working with (or just go to body calisthenics, which is my personal favorite) and focus on how long you can do the exercise. Try for hundreds of deep squats that take 3-4 seconds to complete (build the number slowly to avoid injury), or build up the number of pulls ups you can do into the hundreds and hundreds. I’ll write more on this subject, but for now, this should give you a good idea on how to change your work out so that you have maximum body endurance, the potential for lightening quick motions, and all the other things that go along with creating real Martial Arts Power.
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Learning The Martial Arts Forms Art By Art
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/AlCase26.jpg]When we consider the best martial arts forms we are considering those martial arts kata that give the most benefit to the student. I usually recommend learning as many patterns and arts as possible, then working on the ones that the student prefers, although there can be oddities in this method. I also hold that one should learn entire arts, first taekwondo, then karate, then kung fu.
The kebons are good, basic kata taught in both karate styles and taekwondo styles. Though there are three to five of these introductory patterns, I don’t usually count them as forms because they are actually the ABCs of the martial arts.
The next batch of kata to study would be the Taeguks as taught in Tae kwon do. These are basic patterns, more advanced than the kebons, but not as advanced as the Japanese Heians (Pinans). Though they take a few moves from the Heian forms, they serve them up as straight hand to hand techniques, no secret throws or weapons disarms, and no real generation of intrinsic energy.
After the taeguk patterns one should learn the Pinan forms from the Shotokan system, the Kyokushinkai system, and other Japanese martial styles. The Pinan kata are actually designed more for weapons defenses, though not many people know this. The idea here is that one learns the Taeguks for hand to hand combat, then moves into the Pinans for a basic understanding of weapons defenses, and the beginnings of chi eneergy generation.
After the Pinans I recommend the three forms from Pan Gai Noon, which is the base art of Uechi ryu Karate, and which are actually three extremely hard core kung fu forms. These three forms are sanchin, seisan, and sanseirui, though sanseirui is considered more of a show form. These three unique kata are specifically designed to generate internal energy.
Sanchin is designed to teach a student to bolt the motor down to the ground. There are not a lot of moves in it, but the moves are geometrically unique and perfectly designed for adapting hard energy to excellent self defense moves.
Sanchin may be the power form, but seisan is the technique kata. This form takes the power of sanchin and transfigures it into (probably) 13 specific self defense moves. These are all based on one specific move called wa uke, which is a circle block with a flesh tearing grab on the end.
So, taekwondo to karate to kung fu; Kebons to Taeguk to Pinans to Sanchin and seisan. This arrangement of martial arts forms provides the student with the absolute best and most complete sequence of classical training there is. Other forms can and should be studied, but this is the heart of the art right here.
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Getting A Martial Arts Black Belt In Less Than Two Years
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase3.jpg]Eight forms is all that is really necessary to earn a Martial Arts Black Belt, and this is in karate, or taekwondo, or kenpo, or even the many shaolin systems and other fighting arts. Of course the kata must be of the correct kind to be effective. A good example of this is found in Karate, which descended from Kung Fu, and from which developed both Kenpo and Taekwondo.
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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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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