World Of Swords

The odd thing is, when we figure out martial arts styles and systems, we are repeating the errors of those who went before. This is sort of an inarguable fact that nobody seems to come to grips with. It is this fact that is at the heart of the creation of most Martial Arts systems.

The people of yesterday had no technology to draw upon. They didn't have logical methods of thought, or, many times, even any formal education. Thus, their look at martial arts was based on mysticism, and the resulting arts are born of that mysticism.

When some fellow began his study of the martial arts it would be based upon the spirit techniques his father learned in the army of (enter an historical name). His father would be old and crippled, maybe even a little addled, but he would give his son what he remembered. There would be a family bonding, and a secret system of ninjitsu, or kung fu, or whatever, would be born.

As time went on, these methods of art would eventually come to light. Consider the plight of the guy interested in studying martial arts, and he has a version of Gung Fu to draw on, half a system of Emei Wudan, and the stuff the kids at the park were playing with. Out of this razzmatazz, which is the result of previous gobbledegook, he tries to make a system.

The real miracle is that the martial arts worked! And, miracle of miracles, it sometimes worked to incredible degree! But this is a testament to the creativity and ingenuity of humankind.

I was stuck in that place once. I had half a style of derived Parker Kenpo Karate, and a system of one style of Kang Duk Won, a system that had roots in Okinawa, Japan, and even Korea. I also had an Americanized Karate Style, a bastardized version of Chum Kiu (the second form) Wing Chin, a few months of aikido, a version of Ton Toi (Springy Legs) Northern Shaolin, and a few other bits and pieces. And I had some kind of fun trying to make sense out of what I had.

I mean the concepts of some of these systems worked against one another! Even inside a specific national style of art, for instance ton toi and wing chun, there was vast discrepancy, and a disjointment of function that made it impossible to put them together, or even relate them. And, courtesy of the exploding learning potentials I was dealing with books, mags, videos, seminars, and dojos opening on every corner, and learning nothing about how it all fit together.

But it does fit together, and it fits together smooth and slick as if had been planned that way. And, truth, it has been planned that way. Once you get enough data, and a method for joining martial arts into one picture, you'll find that even opposites such as Aikido and boxing, krav maga and tai chi, or whatever, can be joined in a martial arts structure that is easier, and even faster, to learn.

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The real benefits of Martial Arts practice are quite a bit more intense than most people understand. Most people, you see, study Shaolin or Kenpo for a couple of years, and they are just tapping into the real benefits of the martial arts. Then they lose their way because marriage or kids, their only involvement is really through seeing people like Jackie Chan or Jet Li, and their path has effectively ended.

You recognize these fellows because their uniforms are hanging in the closet, as if they would wear them tomorrow, but they don't use them. This is a sad thing, because it is like buying half a car, or wearing one sock, and they don't understand what could have been. They don't understand that a little work over time and the world would have opened up to them in unimaginable ways.

It takes 3 to 4 years to achieve first degree black belt in most martial arts styles. It used to take a less time, but a lot of junk has been added to the arts. If you separate the blending of arts, the commercial and trophy influences and that sort of thing, then you can actually get to black belt within a year.

At any rate, when a person makes it to black belt they usually realize a thing I call CBM (Coordinated Body Motion). Reaction time goes down, and this makes them quicker, and their movement becomes more liquid. Unfortunately, many systems obsess on muscles or strength, or other things that disrupt the natural movements of the body, and this pretty effectively ends the training cycle.

If the martial art system they are practicing is a good one, they still run into things like marriage and kids and bills. They don't see the value to be gained from the long path, you see, and they don't make the necessary sacrifice to travel it. Sooner or later, they stop working out.

If they do stick to it, however, after about twenty years of practice a person masters his art. This can actually be done in 3 or 4 years, but most instructors don't know enough about actual teaching to help the student make it. They may know the martial arts, but knowing teaching is an entirely different bag of feathers.

Once a person has become a martial arts master he starts to know the true extent of his abilities. He understands how he has become more aware and intuitive, and he finally realizes that he has been building abilities that other people don't know anything about. He becomes a larger human being, a giant, really, and he tends to be patient with those who are still like children to him.

The fighting practices of the far east are ancient ones, and the effects have been well laid out. In modern times, however, with the introduction of corruptive teaching methods and lack of adherence to what works, these effects are not so easily had. It is easy, however, to correct your martial arts practice, and to achieve what the ancients used to achieve quickly and easily.

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