As time went on, I realized that having gone to a Martial Arts School, I was not the same as other people. I don’t think I realized how much martial arts had made me different until the day I ran a social experiment where I had a martial arts student fart on food. FYI, no food was actually harmed in the conducting of this social experiment…grin.
Karate Kiai means ‘spirit shout,’ and it is the deadly scream that karate practitioners utter when chopping an opponent’s head off. Well, maybe I overstated that a bit, grin, but there is a truth to the karate shout that is unarguable and leads to some rather rare and mysterious knowledge. I am referring to the subject of Kotodama, which means ‘Word spirit.’
I’m going to tie some different things together here, but it’s the straight goods. Follow what I say, work your way through it, and you’ll be able to fix your body using the martial arts, and this means virtually any art. Karate, Tai Chi Chuan, taekwondo, aikido, Hapkido, any art, and I recommend looking into a discipline such as Yoga.
This is one of those stories that really should be passed around. Wing Chun Kung Fu, one of the best of the old gung fu systems, was created by a (sniff) little girl! And, if that isn’t bad enough, the Sticky Hands drill, after several hundred years, still represents high tech state of the Martial Arts!
There is a lot of false information out there about knife fighting. Most of this can be figured out with a little smarts. Some of the stuff is going to take a bit of learning in a martial arts system that utilizes real life knife self defense techniques.
You don’t need such arts as Karate, Taekwondo or Aikido if you need a good gun defense. Though, to be sure, grin, it would help. That said, let me tell you an interesting tale of a friend of mine in Mexico City.
I have said that the Eight Catchers are the epitome of the Martial Arts. And, I have said that you should study extensive fighting disciplines, Karate, Tai Chi Chuan, Shaolin, whatever, before you begin your minimum of two years of practice on solely the Catchers. That said, here is a description of the Sword Catcher, which is an Aikido based technique, and images of it can be found in Monster Martial Arts newsletter X-5.
Many people around the world practices things like qigong and yoga. Some do them as exercises, but more do them hoping to get supernatural power. While someone can easily lie to have extraordinary experiences when they did not, I can assure you that a good number of the reports of such happening are real. But before you try to know how to get more power, you should take a moment to learn about where these powers truly came from.
Death to the US marines, hmm? Sounds like some pretty grim stuff. Still, we have to peruse some unpleasant hijinks before we get to the killer Kung Fu Toys.
Today many different methods of combat instruction are practiced all over the globe, many far beyond the borders of the communities in which it originated. These generally either lean towards approaches that are internally based and soft, or the external and hard forms. Following below are some major differences between internal and external martial arts techniques and fighting styles.
