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May 9, 2010

Martial Artist Says Hand Weapons Should Be Few, Simple & Effective

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Watch most of the martial arts movies coming from Hong Kong, and you’ll see some unusual hand weapons being deployed.

Some look like striking snakes; others like pecking hens.

Which hand weapons are best?

In my view, we should learn a variety of hand variations, but stick to deploying a just a few simple and solid ones in our training and in combat.

Here are my four favorites:

(1) Closed Fist. There is a reason that many punches employ a closed fist. It is solid, hard, resistant to injury, and it penetrates upon contact with the opponent. The knuckles are the primary striking surface, moving frontally or side to side, but the soft surface, next to the baby finger, can be used as well in a hammering motion.

(2) Tiger’s Claw. This is a five-finger deployment, utilizing curled and rigid digits, useful in facial and eye attacks.

(3) Braced Thumb. Make a fist, bring your thumb up beyond and flush with your index finger, and you have an excellent weapon for soft targets, such as eyes, or the temple area.

(4) Eagle’s Talon or Crab. This is a three-digit deployment, using the index and middle fingers and the thumb, in opposition to each other. Squeezing these together in an attack on the neck and Adam’s apple is efficient because it creates a quick grab and requires very little space for landing in the right spot.

I’m not a big fan of the “shuto,” known commonly as a “karate chop.” I think it’s too easy to damage yourself when using it, especially if you accidentally strike a hard surface of the opponent’s body.

For the same reason, I’m reluctant to launch solitary finger strikes. It’s way too easy to break an unsupported finger, causing pain and distraction in a critical situation.

Let me know what works for you, and why!

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March 30, 2010

Perspective Martial Artist of the film: "The Bourne Identity"

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If you do martial arts, philosophy and spirituality of immersion in the study, you will find one of your main goals is to be re-worded.

What are you, what your family, society, managers, teachers and government have been doing so can not stand it.

Something specific, you should be aware of this need.

Perhaps it was achieved a lightweight, disrespectful of those who made you feel weak.

Or that they were in an evening stroll with your friend and you feelThe fear of this group of black figures, who were walking around the corner.

Outweighs the desire, shame you were so scared that you're intimidated, so after some reflection, you came to see that you were afraid of most of the time, and maybe one day, turned into stone, but still defend against an attack real.

Thus begins the road in the field of martial arts through the transport from weakness to strength, from shynessTrust.

Jason Bourne trip is different. Has the extraordinary talent and ability to defend, above all, yourself and turn off others. Suffering from amnesia, he tries to find out who he is, all the while hunted by deadly enemies who want to destroy it.

With a vague sense of guilt for his past misdeeds, and the quest for liberation from the haunting memories in a short circuit, he tries to survive long enough to solve the mystery of his identity.

He isMartial artist, and a surprisingly capable, but has tried to get back, as well.

A sample master physicist, he is still mentally weak because his muscles were used for questionable purposes. "Its hard" is not his objective, since for some beginners Pugilist.

"Person" is closer to its mission, and then cancel his mind twisted wiring is his task increasingly a cyborg, more connected with its weaknesses in the process.

This informationfast and action-packed thriller is the archetypal story of "Ronin", the master-less samurai.

These stories ask: What will become of us if we do not have one, no reason why it can not serve, only polished killing skills that are already marginal commercial value?

This is a query that is relevant to all soldiers, for which is the next battle is served with who they are and how and what they do.

Bourne is a hero?

I leave you to decide.

Along the way, I'm sureGo see this movie exciting to watch technically competent, and fun.

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February 20, 2010

Martial Artist Says Hand Weapons Should Be Few, Simple & Effective

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Watch most of the martial arts movies coming from Hong Kong, and you’ll see some unusual hand weapons being deployed.

Some look like striking snakes; others like pecking hens.

Which hand weapons are best?

In my view, we should learn a variety of hand variations, but stick to deploying a just a few simple and solid ones in our training and in combat.

Here are my four favorites:

(2) Tiger’s Claw. This is a five-finger deployment, utilizing curled and rigid digits, useful in facial and eye attacks.

(3) Braced Thumb. Make a fist, bring your thumb up beyond and flush with your index finger, and you have an excellent weapon for soft targets, such as eyes, or the temple area.

For the same reason, I’m reluctant to launch solitary finger strikes. It’s way too easy to break an unsupported finger, causing pain and distraction in a critical situation.

Let me know what works for you, and why!

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January 28, 2010

How can you know if you are a true martial artist?

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In recent articles I asked some unusual questions about the martial arts dojo, especially in America, where they are taught.

Dojo are cults?

How much is "enough" martial arts?

We must remove the harness system of production in the martial arts?

And what can you do if your Martial Arts Academy is suddenly forced to shutter its doors, or out of service?

I would ask an equally provocativeQuestion

How can you know if you are a true martial artist?

I say this because I am still convinced that consensus and support from outside authorities, while the ordinary and usual, something that takes us away from self-discovery and true wisdom.

A martial artist is a couple of things as I see it:

(1) There is a person who is the "force" that makes life around him, takes the form in which this power. Overbearing boss or spouse, the renegadeTeenage children, and the racket in the street are all enemies, and learns the martial arts as these influences so doing little direct damage to administer and of itself as possible.

(2) There is a person to defend oneself and others is appropriate when the situation offers no alternative. Aristotle, in his book, rhetoric, saying that there would be much of a man who is not with your hands to defend, but with his words. Now, nearly two thousand years, we are able to reversethis statement and say that we can not see much of a person who is glib, but physically vulnerable to attack.

(3) There is a person who values peace and find joy in the war, although it can always vigilant and fight for the availability, should they occur.

(4) A person who is life itself and the world around us, our dojo is aware that training in a closed, highly controlled area can begin, but their real task is timeless and without physical boundaries .

(5) This is avirtuous, what is doing the right thing to find and request the mediation of a dispute: "What is right?" instead of politically correct question: "Who is right?"

You need a dojo to recognize as a true martial artist?

I do not think so.

Then they say that anyone who is a real martial artist?

As with many important questions of life, the answer lies in it.

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Martial Artist Says Hand Weapons should be short, simple, and can be effective

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Watch most martial arts films in Hong Kong and see some unusual guns are in use.

Some snakes seem surprising, some chickens peck.

Which ones are the best weapons?

I think we should learn a variety of small changes, but the use of a stick just some of the most simple and solid in our training and in combat.

Here are my four favorites:

(1), the closed fist. There is a reason that deal closed many beatsFist. The firm, hard, more resistant to damage, and you come into contact with the enemy. The ankles are the primary surface friction, moving the front or side to side, but the soft surface, may be beside the little finger with a hammer motion.

(2) Tiger's Claw. This has attracted a period of five fingers provision, use and rigid figures, useful, face and attacks the eyes.

(3) blocked Thumb. Make a fist, take your thumb over and flush with the index finger andThey have an excellent weapon for soft targets, like the eyes, or the Temple area.

(4) Eagle Talon or cancer. This is a three-use, with the index and middle fingers and thumb in opposition to each other. Squeezing them together in an attack on the neck and Adam's apple efficient because it creates a fast attack and requires little space for the landing in the right place.

I'm not a big fan of Shuto, commonly known as "karate chop known." I believeIt 'too easy to hurt yourself if you do, especially if you accidentally hit a hard surface of the body of the enemy.

For the same reason, are reluctant to launch strikes solitary finger. It 'too easy to break a finger is not supported, resulting in pain and distraction in a critical situation.

Let me know what and why!

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Martial artist says where the focus of energy flows Goes

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Much is about "who" or written, that energy flows into us and through us, making life and power.

Masters to give demonstrations of martial arts Chi, seemingly effortless draw attacker in Aikido, and to weaken their enemies and freeze in force in Kenpo Karate.

Who is real? Do you have a master in their power to touch?

Teachers have to understand that it is wonderful, and channels at will, but do not have the exclusive right toit. You have those thousands of times, which is used without knowing it.

For example, I was seen in a meeting of a large group, if I have a friend sitting thirty lines in front of me. Immediately after him know that I concentrated on the back of the head.

Suddenly he turned, looked at the people behind them, looked at me and smiled!

She knew someone "goes to him," as it is, in martial arts.

You can not see who, directly or measure with conventional instruments.But we have, we feel, and we are able to use it.

It's worth a couple of "field tests" to show their power. Get some mirrored sunglasses and go into the crowd. Focus on people, and then see if you see.

You can go back? You begin to scratch where you're looking for? These are signs that works.

Remember this adage: When the attention goes energy flows!

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January 27, 2010

Martial Artist Says: Right-power power!

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Machiavelli, the political philosopher lasting and writer, asked a key question.

If you are a sovereign society, it is better to be loved or feared?

E 'apology a bit', but finally settled on fear, because it is more predictable and reliable, and less fickle love.

A related question was asked by Plato in his famous dialogues:

"If you could do right?"

If you drive an army and you think it is day or night, you are right, because thethe force of arms?

Martial artists believe the opposite is true: The right makes might.

If you read John Teramoto translation of "The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate Gichin Funakoshi:" You will see that one of the key points is the master, if the "Karate is on the side of justice."

Teramoto & Funakoshi stressed that: "People are at their worst when they think is right."

If you doubt the truth or the justice of yourhave, with the same logic, you are in a state of weakness. That, with a strong conviction, although this is not caused by drugs or belonging to a gang, you can defeat.

Let expand on these thoughts.

If you need the right to justice, but do not know, or are not sure about it, you're in a state of weakness?

Probably yes, and in some cases reverse.

The villain who lacks the virtue that stands for the injustice that is stronger than him when,I believe, however wrongly, the rightness of his cause.

Therefore, the martial artist should always be: (1) You know what virtue is, to convince (2) that can be pursued actively, and will not hesitate (3) to keep it.

As far as he does, it will be powerful and effective.

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