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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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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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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Three Steps To Making Deadly Martial Arts Moves
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase11.jpg] Everybody wants their training to result in the deadliest Martial Art Techniques, but most schools don’t deliver. Teaching children, training for tournaments, these concepts take from the combative arts. Interestingly, one need only understand the three stages of technique, or bunkai, and it doesn’t matter whether you do karate or kenpo or Aikido or whatever, and your art is going to get pretty darned deadly.
The basic idea and principle of what you are doing must be understood. Often there are a bunch of little things that need to be understood, but they come together in a single idea. This idea is presented in the form, and it is why things like Karate kata or taekwondo poomse are actually vital training tools.
The form, you see, is a perfect idea. You practice it without distractions and you attempt to make each motion as perfect as possible. You cut down such things as reaction times, and you train your body to move like a well oiled machine.
The second thing you need to do is apply the individual parts of the forms in bunkai, or applications. You need to make the technique work through controlled distraction, you need to experience resistance. Most important, you need to understand the reality of what happens when bodies collide with bodies.
The idea here is that you need to have somebody try to stop you from doing your tricks. This enables you to deal with real live opposition, and go through the doors that will enable you to make a trick work, and to find all the ‘what ifs’ that will get in the way of that workability. This is perfection pushed new levels of difficulty; this is learning how to make the art work in spite of anything that might get in the way.
The third thing is to take your skills onto the mat and make them work. Here your kenpo techniques may not be so beautiful, in spite of anything Mr. Parker might say, and you are going to have to push through all resistance and make them be usable, in some fashion, anyway. Ultimately, as you test these applications and find the working parts, you are going to find the perfection of art available in such forms as sochin and bassai and even lowly kebon.
The thing you have to watch out for, in this process of making the art work, is coming to believe in violence as a solution. You must not allow the Joy of Combat, for that is a lie. You must, in spite of the chaotic nature of the art you study, hold to a calm, inner peace; you must control yourself until you find yourself.
The martial arts are a method of discovering yourself through intense workouts, and through the seeking and isolating of perfection in every technique you do. Perfection is there, you know, but there is a price that must be paid. Deadly Martial Arts Techniques, you see, are found only by seeking inner peace.
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If You Can’t Do These Strength Feats Then You Aren’t Bruce Lee Tough!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/AlCase45.png]People like to think they are tough. They break a few boards and swagger around and make grunting sounds. But once you read the following list of feats, you are going to know that these fellows aren’t anywhere near Bruce Lee tough!
Do you want to be faster than a snake taking a does of steroids? Try placing your hands at your sides and striking. Bruce Lee could manage a punch from this relaxed stance in five hundredths of a second!
You think those cannon balls you call biceps will impress the ladies? Try holding a dumb bell against your body, then put your arms straight out. Bruce Lee could hold 75 pounds straight out in this manner for 20 seconds!
Oh, you don’t have a 75 pound dumb bell hanging around? Okay, let’s try something easy. Bruce could do 50 one armed chin ups!
Bruce Lee was stronger in his fingers than you are in your whole body! He could do push ups on his thumb and forefinger. We’re talking only one hand here!
Bruce Lee’s fingers were so powerful he could stick a finger through the side of a filled soda can! And this was back in the day when cans were real! They were made of steel, and not this thin, aluminum crap!
Here’s one of my favorites, a trick that would put any magician to shame. If you put a dime in your hand and held it out, Bruce Lee could snatch the dime off your palm…and leave you a penny! Now that is speed!
Now, I know you are looking at that one inch pine board you just smashed and are doubting yourself, but you don’t have to. Bruce Lee was special, and he did the thigns he did by incredible hard work. So, instead of feeling like you oughta go put on a dress, just get to work and make your own self…Bruce Lee tough!
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I Stomped On Eight Deadly Ninjas In A Bar Fight Using Spetsnaz Karate Techniques!
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase17.jpg]Eight ninjas with Super Secret Spetznatz karate techniques? I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that this is possibly the worst hoax ever perpetrated on a gullible, wanna be karate student.
Now the catalogue of this kind of crap is huge. Over the past couple of decades I have seen–take a breath–super secret ninja death commando spetznat cyberneurotic Green Beret government doesn’t want you to know eight barroom killer tricks. And the list is a lot longer, but you know the kind of tripe what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about cheaters who bilk you out of hard earned bucks by promising you the moon, then give you watered down, generic outhouse stuffings and call it the real martial arts. I saw one the other day, Captain Chris, or Major X, or whatever he called himself. He’s still selling the same bullwash and calling it gold, and getting rich off unsuspecting, honest martial arts practitioners.
Now you and I know one simple truth…there is no excuse for hard work. If you want to be able to defend yourself then you have to work out, and work out long and hard. Fortunately there is one other simple truth…working out is fun!
When you work out you build up a sweat, you get rid of poisons in the body, your mind starts to think better, and you get this world beating confidence. A confidence that makes you feel like you’re a giant. A confidence that tells you–yes, you can conquer the world!
Now, the story behind these ‘I beat eight skinhead bikers in a bar in the Ozarks’ is pretty dumb. The author has gotten a hold of a few DVDs, or watched the net, and he realizes that the right hand can block both the a right fist and a left fist, and most attackers use their fists, and if you watch the shoulder you can see when he’s going to move. So he puts together eight tricks where you attack eight different ways, and gives it a phony scientific title.
Look, I’m not pulling your leg, it really is that simple, and it really is that shabby. I mean, why not just go ahead and study the art, find out about another culture, practice an exotic discipline, and really learn something? When you really know the true martial arts you will laugh very hard at those killer commando death techniques, those so called youtube experts with their snippets of bushwah, those super secret CIA agents who learned from Shaolin Monks in a hidden monastery.
Those people who try to sell you ‘become a killer quick’ courses are just reaching into your pocket and stealing your money. It’s best if you toss out those comic book notions and find a real martial arts teacher and learn the truth. Look, there is nothing wrong with studying on your own, you just need to seek out the real art and not fall for that super secret spetznatz karate techniques.
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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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The Six Best Procedures To Learn Martial Arts
[I:http://www.weightlossdietinformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase20.jpg]There will be preferences if you want to learn Martial Art, but there are also a couple of things that are fairly obvious, and that we will be able to agree on. Interestingly, I came across this data many years ago, and have used it myself. It deals with analyzing the value of media in transmitting data. The worst method for absorption of data is the movies or TV. This is because the martial art techniques that you will see on the screen, whether it is the art of Bruce Lee, Jet Li, or whoever, has been altered for the camera. Yes, it may look good, but stuntmen and camera cuts are making it look good.
Almost as bad as the screen, and it might even be considered a toss up with these two, is the web. While there can be pearls in that there computer stream, the dreck is overwhelming. Dial into the internet for the purpose of actually trying to learn something (as opposed to just surfing around for fun) and you engage a common brain that doesn’t know any better, pseudo experts, overwhelming amounts of information with no real instruction or even organization of data, what’s neat, advertising that hasn’t and can’t be tested for worth, and etcetera.
The third weakest way to educate oneself would be to try to learn from magazines. Now, this is not to be discounted, magazines do give you an overall viewpoint of what’s going on–and not just in the classical arts–and can give a good education as to what is out there. Good writing and the dedication of the magazine to find out what the reader is really interested in, and the tendency of the worthwhile ads to stick around, makes this a good source of finding out about different martial arts.
Fourth weakest would be martial arts DVDs. Now, I should say weakest, but third strongest, because one can dial into a specific art, delve into that art in detail, and really get some great instruction. Honestly, it’s a toss up between this and the next item on the list, almost a tie, but I settled on the order you see because there are just so many bad DVDs out there–it’s just too easy to string some fighting techniques together, slap a pseudo scientific label on it, and use internet marketing to blast it past common sense.
Second best and of very high value, when it comes to the learning process goes to martial arts books. With books you might not get the visual look, but if you have any instruction in a training hall, books will do the trick. Furthermore, you can get the most detail, in depth theory, the most fully thought out concepts in books–and if you can get a video to go along with it then you really are on to something.
The best method for learning the the combat discipline, no doubt about it, is to take a martial arts class at a good training hall, one where they teach not just the blood and guts, but the heart and soul. You’ll find friendships that last a lifetime, styles of combat that stuck around for thousands of years, and some pretty darned good times. Add to that that you can ask a question about anything you want right on the spot, and the worth of this method is undeniable.
People study according to their opportunity and means, thus, none of the methods I have mentioned can be totally discounted. And, the smart student will do a mix and match and educate himself so that there are no weaknesses in his arts. In the end, every man is self made, and learning Martial Arts is the best method for making oneself.
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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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