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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Is Classical Martial Arts Better Than MMA?
Now, obviously, we are going to have a difference of opinion, the main thing is can we come up with some facts, or at least opinions so well grounded, that belief in one system is superior to another? I believe it is possible.
First, there is sport v art. In a sport one fights an opponent. In an art, one is in conflict, and thus attempting to resolve conflict, with oneself.
Second, there is the question of control. In a classical art one is attempting to control ones body, ones opponent, and ones own spirit. In MMA one is all too often just attempting to knock somebody’s face in.
Thus far, the edge seems to be headed in the classical direction. In attempting to control ones own self there is a high ground, after all. This is not to say, however, that the MMA school of thought does not have considerable attributes and qualities.
The main consideration, UFC stylists would argue, is whether an art works in the dark alley, and in this they would appear to posssess an edge. After all, the face smashing, body twisting, leg breaks that one perceives in the octagon is definitely useful for self defence. This writer, however, is not completely convinced of the argument.
In the ring rules are present. No fingers to the eyes, strikes to the coconuts, small joint twisting, punching the back of the skull, and so on. These are the techniques that a classical practitioner might veer towards in a street encounter.
Thus, in the final tally, while experience with violence, such as one might find in the MMA ring, has a definite edge, this writer is still going to stick with the classical. After all, in traditional martial arts one learns how to fight without getting mugged, and there are lessons to be learned outside of violence, and which can actually de-escalate conflicts. Choose which you wish, be true to your choice, both classical martial arts and MMA have much to offer.
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The Real Secret Of The Dim Mak Poison Hand Death Touch
In the first place, there really is an art that teaches this thing, but it is extremely hard to find a teacher, and to be accepted to learn is really hard. You have to actually know a few kung fu styles, you have to have an recommendation from a Kung Fu Master. And that is no guarantee that you will be accepted as a discipline.
In the second place, one must question the worth of studying such a rare and esoteric art. It will take years to understand the teachings and to be able to actually use them in a fight. Quite honestly, the time spent learning the poison hand death touch you could spend learning other arts.
And, what is going to have more worth? The ability to touch somebody with your fingers and have him go off and die three days later at seven thirty eight if the moon is full? Or to get so good at other arts that nobody could get close enough to you to even try such a technique as the poison hand?
To learn the Dim Mak one will be studying medicine, but not the normal medicine. You will not learn to alleviate sickness, but rather to cause the body to go into disharmony and die. This means that you will have the double study of learning the right way of curing people, and the wrong way.
You will also have to learn certain things about the time of using the death touch. You could strike (touch) somebody with a finger, but if it is the wrong time of the day, your touch is wasted. This means you are going to have to learn all sorts of things about the time cycle of the internal organs of the body, and how this translates to the trigger points on the outside of the body.
Look, I’m about done here, and you’re free to do what you want, but let me tell you one little tale of a real death touch. Certain ninpo arts teach how to wear ring needles (and other types of gimcracks). They coat the needle with a deadly poison, then cover the needle with wax.
They can poison anybody and cause death, but they are safe to themselves and their friends. Now this is a real art that I am telling you, but one that doesn’t take decades to learn and use. And that is about all I have to say on the subject of the real secret of the kung fu dim mak death touch.
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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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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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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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True Martial Arts Power Starts With Building Ideal Muscles
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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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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The Martial Arts As A Pathway To The God Concept
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!
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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