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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How To Fix The Back Stance (Kokutsu Dachi) In Shotokan Karate
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase43.png]Shotokan Karate is one of the four major karates styles in the world, so many systems are derived from this style, and thus are contaminated with some very incorrect concepts. Thus, whether you study Shito ryu, Isshin Ryu, Kyokushinkai, or any system that has the Heian forms as a base, you probably are making the errors I am listing in this article. It doesn’t mean your karate stance is bad, it just means if you make a couple of tweaks you can make it better.
A good karate stance should be a perfect blend between mobility and solidity. Mobiity is when one can launch their body quickly in one direction. Solidity is when one can grip the ground with their feet and become virtually immoveable.
In the Shotokan kokutsu dachi stance, however, the mix between mobile and solid has been unbalanced. If you study the legs you will see that they are angling more than 90 degrees apart. This means the stance is more solid than mobile.
If the rear foot is pointing away from the target the major muscles are pointing away from the target. The foot being in the wrong position means that there is not going to be enough traction for the push. The leg being pointed away from the target means that the major thrusting muscles of the leg can’t be properly employed.
in addition, the hips won’t be properly angled, and when one pushes with the leg there will be an ‘energy leak,’ in the structure. That is to say that the hips will not want to support the energy of the push. This can be severe enough to weaken the back, and even (in extreme cases) lead to damage to the lower spine.
To fix this stance all one needs to do is turn the rear foot towards the target to about 45 degrees or less. This will angle the foot for better traction, and set up the major muscles for the push when one launches the body towards the target. Of course, this is going to alter the basic nature of the stance.
Thus, when you turn the foot correctly, you are going to have to figure out the proper angle of the hips, and set the weight more on the rear leg. Doing this will prepare the body for maximum push, but shotokan instructors will resist this alignment of the body for a simple reason: it lacks the feel of shotokan power. But this merely proves that the system has been corrupted for the feeling and sake of power, and not for the balance between sinking the weight and launching the body.
To get past this, Shotokan masters have arranged the style to rely on overly aggressive front stances. What they have done is okay, but only in specific situations, and the proof is in the fact that the back stance is more for rooting than for shooting. Thus, you have a choice, do what you are told in Shotokan Karate, or other classical martial arts systems, or evaluate the physics I have presented here and change your stance in accordance with these physics.
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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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The Large Flaw In O Sensei Aikido
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase42.jpg]I am a terrific fan of O Sensei Aikido. The art is genius. And, there is a terrible wrongness in it.
To understand what I mean by this oxymoronic viewpoint one has to understand where Morihei Ueshiba Aikido came from. Morihei Ueshiba studied many arts, and all must have contributed to his knowledge. The predominate art behind aikido training, however, is Daito Ryu Aiki Ju Jitsu.
This form of jujitsu was founded a thousand years ago by a fellow named Yoshimitsu. There are different versions concerning the birth of this art. One version holds that the samurai who survived great battles were asked what techniques worked for them, and the other version has Yoshimitsu dissecting cadavers to understand jointlocks and such.
While there is probably truth in both versions, the truth is obscured by history. One thing is sure, the art became very technique heavy. The list of recorded techniques is somewhere between 3200 and 3500, depending upon which branch of the school one is pursuing.
At any rate, it can be said that the Aikido of Morihei Ueshiba is not the entire art of Daito Ryu Ju Jitsu. The founder of aikido concentrated only on the movements which were aiki in nature, which were concerned with harmonious movements which flowed with the attack. Thus, one could reasonably make the case that Aikido is half of the total art of Daito Ryu.
To be honest, some techniques should be thrown away. After all, of what worth is a trick developed for a specific type of armor, or weapon, or tactic from a thousand years ago. The need for some ancient techniques will never be seen on a today’s battlefields.
On the other hand, basic, bare boned techniques (atemi) which would end a fight with a single blow are neglected and rarely mentioned. Thus, unless one is persistent enough to find and study Diato Ryu, or accumulate teachings in arts which relate to these specific types of strikes, one will never experience the whole teachings behind Aikido. Thus, because of the absence of many non-flowing techniques, one will never understand the resulting slant given to the martial arts, and Aikido can be considered lacking as a martial art.
I say these things not to offend, but to educate. If you are satisfied with O Sensei Aikido, so be it and more power to you. If you wish to explore further, and find the things that are not being taught in your Aikido Dojo, however, you will find the journey much richer.
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Al Case Wins Award For Best Martial Arts Writer Of All Time!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AllenFordCole40.jpg]Monster Martial Arts (MonsterMartialArts.com) has nominated Al Case as the best martial arts writer of all time. Monster, which offers many of Al’s books and videos on their website, said the selection process was very easy. ‘Al not only has an extremely large body of work, but many of his writings will totally change the arts.’
Among the areas the Monster Board of Directors considered in the selection process are ‘most martial arts training manuals written,’ ‘most articles written,’ and even ‘most martial arts oriented novels penned.’ Also evaluated was the large body of martial art video work Al has produced. All of this work has been put forth over a career spanning more than 40 years.
Al wrote his first training manual in 1967 when the notes he was keeping were ‘borrowed’ in order to make his Chinese Kenpo school’s first training manual. Over the years Al developed martial arts training books for every art he was involved with. This ‘obsession,’ as he jokingly refers to it, has resulted in probably a hundred unique training manuals.
Al began writing articles in 1981 and was quickly published by Inside Karate, arguably the best karate magazine ever published. Over the years he wrote nearly three dozen articles, and a column (Case Histories). Since the advent of the digital era Al has published nearly 300 articles on the net.
Of particular note is his column, Case Histories. Case Histories was published in Inside Karate for just over four years, and was always a reader favorite. Readers particularly appreciated the unique viewpoint he provided, always presented in humorous and satirical overtones.
What most martial artists don’t know is that Al has inked over 20 novels, and one will invariably find his novels rich with a sub theme of martial arts profoundness. His fight scenes, based on over 4 decades of intense martial practice, are among the best ever inked. These novels have, up to this time, been available on a very limited basis, but that may change as Al’s novel, Small in the Saddle, is currently being considered for printing.
As was earlier noted, the award was based not just on sheer quantity of work, but quality. Al is the founder of Matrixing Technology and Neutronics. Matrixing enables an artist to break down and understand his art to a depth never before realized on this planet. Neutronics has resulted in the first and only totally martial arts oriented religion.
The award was announced earlier this week by the Monster Board of Directors. In a statement they said, “We have undoubtedly come up with the most deserving person for this award, and we look forward to more of his unique work. Monster was established in 2007, and has sold thousands of martial arts books and video courses.
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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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Three Steps To Matrixing Karate Fighting
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AlCase11.jpg]When I was first shown how to do martial arts freestyle, some forty years ago, I intuitively knew the things I am about to tell you. I thought everybody knew them. It was a couple of decades before I realized that I was in possession of something unique.
The first step to learning karate fighting techniques is to evaluate distance. If you control the distance, you control the freestyle. If you control distance, you can control whether the fight is going to be done with strikes, manipulations, throws, or whatever.
The easiest drill to help you to control distance is simply to face your partner at a distance some three or four feet apart, and then, no matter where and how your partner moves, move with him to keep that exact distance. Forward or back, side to side, you maintain that fighting distance. An interesting deviation to this drill is to match the footwork, if he moves his right foot towards you, you move your left foot away from him, and so on.
The second step to matrixing martial arts fighting moves is to understand that the body is constructed of a top and bottom. The body is actually two triangles, one constructed from the feet to the tan tien, and atop that, an upside down one constructed from the tan tien to the base of the shoulders. The arms are separate geometrical figures extending from the (upside down) base of the upper triangle.
To master these martial arts drills, if your partner attacks with feet, you must back up, if he attacks with hands, you must block. The reason you get out of the way of the feet is because they have more muscle and mass than the arms, and you should avoid blocking something stronger with something weaker. Obviously, as you get better and better, this will change, and you will be able to handle feet with hands quite easily.
The third step in matrixing karate fighting techniques is to realize that the body is built of right and left halves. Simply, you should learn to recognize whether the attack is coming at the right side of your body or the left side. This will enable you to open or close your opponent; to manipulate his arms across his body (close) or to guide them out from the body (open), which shuts down his weapons or opens the targets of his body.
At first you can simply face each other and attack with either the right hand or the left hand, and build your knowledge concerning which side he will attack with. After you have built up enough experience to detect which side he will attack with before he attacks, face your partner in a matching stance (his right foot forward your right foot forward), and shuffle in with a punch to the centerline. Being able to detect which side he will attack with, and to even have choice as to whether you close or open him, will kick open the door to learning many more martial arts self defense techniques quickly and efficiently.
In summation, let me point out that the key to everything is perception. You must open your eyes and perceive your opponent, understand him before, during and after every move. This is at the crux of how you matrix karate fighting.
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Finding That Secret Martial Arts Kung Fu Technique!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/AlCase0.jpg] When I was a child I wanted to learn secret martial arts. I wanted to know those mysterious fighting moves that would enable somebody smaller to smash somebody taller. I wanted to know that hapkido or jujitsu or whatever that would enable me to really trash the bad guys.
I began my study of Ed Parker Chinese Kenpo Karate, and the mysteries danced on my fingers. In those whirling movements were hidden fist martial arts, invisible and scorching dragon concepts, and down and dirty, take ‘em to the dumpster fighting secrets. I was overjoyed by the endless variety of forms and techniques…but I couldn’t quite figure out the secrets.
From Chinese Kenpo I made the jump to classical Karate. There was a secret Karate had, I was sure of it, and I drilled the karate kata until my stances trembled. In the end, I could grip the mat with my toes, and throw that classical power with the best of them, but there wasn’t any real secret to it all.
After Karate I made the transition to Kung Fu, with all those systems and variation there had to be a secret Kung Fu that would make me just really unbeatable! I threw myself into Shaolin Kung Fu and Kung Fu fighting and…I felt like a whirling dervish taking performance enhancers! But, in the end, I didn’t find that secret that would make me more than a superhuman being!
Okay, not just Shaolin, but a specialized style of secret Shaolin! So I went looking for Yip Man Wing Chun…I wanted to be a Wing Chun grandmaster! I began beating that wooden dummy like he was yesterday’s eggs, doing the wooden dummy training until he needed crutches and a wheel chair…but…I was just working hard, there was no secret gimmick that I could use, there was no…sigh.
So, not some sort of secret Wing Chun, but maybe aderivation on secret Wudan…that had to be the method! I explored Wudan Tai Chi Chuan, searched for secret Bagwa zhang, and spiraled through the world of mystical martial arts like tracers on a battlefield. And, great stuff, I could sink my mysterious and intrinsic energy right to the earth’s center, and spin like a planet full of windmills, but…where was that secret martial arts I needed so bad?
I did everything I could. Meditations on the secret of intrinsic energy that fueled the mysterious tan tiens and enlightened the burning chakras of the greater microcosmic orbit that led to self realization in samadhi when I ascended from my skullular brainpan in the higher realms of paradaisical existence. But, and I say this with a bit of self disgust…I can’t find the secret!
I’m no longer young now, and I’m in great shape, gonna last a long time, and I know there is a secret out there. And I can do martial arts fighting with the best of the best, slay tribes of secret ninjas if I have to, so nobody can stop me from getting to that secret martial art…if I could only find it. Please…will somebody tell me the truth…what is the secret?
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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.
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