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[I:http://testblog2.kathypop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AlCase3.jpg] I was working in a tubing factory a few decades ago, and wordspread that I was training in the martial arts. A Philippine co-worker came up to me at one point, and he said, \”You no study martial arts, martial Arts bad…bad, \” then he shook his head and walked away. From this quick meeting I ultimately realized how the martial arts were invented.

As one might expect, I was quite surprised by my co-workers viewpoint, the Philippines were famous for their martial arts, and so I tracked him down and queried him further. \”Why do you think the martial arts are so bad?\” I asked. This is the anecdote he told me.

\”One day I decide I need martial arts, so I go outside and chop tree. I chop like this (he did a downward chop, as if hammering down on somebody\’s head), and a I chop and I chop. I practice this karate two hour a day for two year.

\”One night my neighbor have wild party, and three in morning I go ask him to stop it. He laughed at me, so I use karate on him. I chop his head and he turn upside down, so I run home and worry I kill him…that why Karate bad!\”

I didn\’t l reveal my grin, because he was serious, he really thought that karate was bad, and didn\’t understand that his bizarre method of training, and his own lack of control, might have something to do with the art \’being bad.\’ But his story led me to wonder where and how the martial arts had been invented. I mean, the fighting disciplines are as old as the world\’s second oldest profession, so how did they come about?

They came into being because somebody wanted to take something away from somebody, and they came from somebody wanting to stop somebody from taking something away from him. This is the same as lawyerism, but applied to the actual hit and punch that occurs when politics breaks down. Eventually, the idea of taking something away from somebody, or protecting your property from somebody reached the levels of armies and weapons of mass destruction.

The idea that what you own belongs to me, and I don\’t have to pay you no stinkin\’ money…that is where the fighting arts originated. And people train to war, and steal money and property and wives and whatever else they think can get away with. And, oddly, as my previous words gave hint, the solution to this avarice and bastardization of art is…in the study of the true art.

You study the art to protect yourself, and in that study you discover yourself…you discover your self worth, and the idea that you are honorable and don\’t have to fear others, or that they might take from you. On the day that everybody on earth knows the martial arts, on that day the avarice and war stop, and on that day everybody will know where the martial arts come from. They come from within, from the spirit that is you, from the honor that motivates every beat of your heart and every breath you take.

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[I:http://testblog2.kathypop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase29.jpg]This secret move is actually inside karate fighting systems, as well as kung fu fighting systems, or just about any martial art you might know. This is because it is a basic motion of the arms. This basic motion, once one knows it, will give rise to virtually all the techniques of the martial arts.

Stand in a natural stance, feet shoulder width and extend the arms straight out in front of the body. Bend the arms slightly and make circles with the arms in front of your body in a clockwise manner. The circles should be about three feet wide, and should overlap each other by about a foot.

As you make these circles you will see a sequence of blocking moves. At one point your right arm will be in a high blocking position and your left arm will be in a low blocking position. As you circle the arms clockwise of the limbs you right arm will pass through an inverted low block (back of the wrist protecting the groin) and your left arm will pass through a palm block (protecting the face).

Anybody who attacks you will encounter one of these blocks, or enter into the swirling motion of your arms. You can angle the blocks and cause all manner of manipulations simply by adjusting the footwork. Take a step, turn the hips, pivot, all will change the angle of the circles, and you will find other types of blocks.

If you hold the distance and focus the circles you can perform hard and bruising blocks. If you step into a person and circle the attacking limb it will change into a lever and a joint manipulation or a throw, as you might find in Gracie Jujitsu schools. Tighten it up and go at a person and you will do the basic Bruce Lee blasting technique.

Thus, this circling of the arms is inherent in any art, and most students will play with it at some time in their careers. Unfortunately, they don\’t usually explore it to the degree necessary to understand the basic conceptual nature of the circles. Yet, a few decades into the art, an accomplished student will invariably realize the fundamental usefulness of the arm circles.

I discovered this move in Pan Gai Noon. The wa-uke circling block is a variation of this fundamental motion. It wasn\’t long before I saw it in the various kung fu fighting systems, and then the kenpo fighting art and all the karate fighting systems. I was quick to make it the pivotal point of my own Shaolin Butterfly Kung Fu home study course.

In summation, let me point out that this arm motion opens the door to endless fighting techniques. If you alter the direction of the circles, or change the direction of one of the circles, you will find virtually every martial arts technique imaginable. Go ahead, look at your martial arts patterns and kata, and you will find that this little trick is at the heart of every martial system, and not just Shaolin Kung Fu Systems.

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[I:http://testblog2.kathypop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/AlCase7.gif]I doubt whether most martial arts training halls, be they Goju Ryu or Mixed Martial Arts or Jujitsu or whatever, have ever had a crazy guy in their school like Mud Car. We called him Mud Car because that\’s what his license plates on his automobile stated. That vehicle, more than just about anything else, told the story of Mud Car.

He had strung parachute webbing across the insides of his car because he felt that parachute webbing was best for holding his car together on the inside. He had fire extinguishers clamped throughout his car. He had a switch on his dashboard to give extra power to his tail lights, and he clicked it whenever he faced away from the sun so that people behind him could see when he braked.

This was all surface stuff, though. The most impressive thing that Mud Car did was memorize the times of all the traffic lights in San Jose. He could traverse that large town without ever hitting a stop light.

Unfortunately, when it came to Karate, he was just as crazy. He couldn\’t stretch, couldn\’t control his body, and, because he had no control, it hurt to work with him. Just being around him you could feel the sparks in his mind shooting into the cosmos.

One day he interrupted the instructor to complain about a pain in his leg. \”It doesn\’t hurt me that much, but it keeps nagging at me, do you know how to make the pain in my leg go away?\” My instructor looked at me with murder in his eyes, I suppose he didn\’t want to look at Mud Car because he would kill him, and he blurted, \”Hit your leg with a lead pipe…that\’ll make the pain go away.\”

I suppose the ability to drive other people crazy is the deciding factor in this matter of whether a person is insane or not. At any rate, Mud Car never made it to Black Belt. He just didn\’t have the mental maturity that denotes a black belt.

One day, however, a new sensei took over the training hall, and Mud Car was promoted to Black Belt within a short time…and then he left the training hall. He had gotten what he wanted, and the new instructor knew that was the best and most efficient way to get rid of Mud Car. But the truth is…I missed Mud Car.

He was nuts, but so is the guy who goes after you on the mean streets, so if you could last a session with Mud Car without getting hurt, you knew your art was working. Furthermore, there was a shift of standard here, for Mud Car had been promoted to black belt because he could drive people nuts, not because he was a competent martial artist. Finally, I think that is where the True Art started disappearing from the martial arts training halls of America…schools, even dojos like classical hung gar or Parker Kenpo or classical Aikido, did not administer soothing discipline to the insane, they just promoted them to get rid of them.

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[I:http://testblog2.kathypop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AlCase7.gif]Bobby lost his left arm because of a childhood illness, but it didn\’t slow him down. He rode bikes, was athletic, and did everything a child is supposed to do, except for one. He never did the martial arts, he assumed that that was one activity he would never be able to do.

When a martial arts school opened up in his neighborhood, however, he could not stop thinking about it. He would pass by the school slowly, staring at the kids working out inside. He would ask his friends who studied martial arts about their training, but he never went inside the dojo because he knew that there was no way he could do that physical discipline.

One day a friend of his invited him to the dojo to witness a demonstration. Bobby went, and watched, and sadness ate at his heart like a chainsaw chews bushes. After the demonstration, Bobby was introduced to the instructor, who invited him to study the martial arts.

\”I don\’t see how I could,\” said Bobbie, \”since I only have one arm.\” The instructor smiled and merely said that having one arm wasn\’t a problem. He held that all things are possible to a man with a whole heart.

So Bobbie began learning martial arts. He threw himself into the practice like a starving man attacked a plate of food, and he made good progress. Unfortunately, the instructor, while he would show Bobby all the techniques, would only let him work on one specific technique.

Day after day, week after week, Bobbie concentrated on learning this one technique. Dutifully, he worked out the problems with his execution until he could do the technique as smooth as silk. Still, the instructor would not let him move on to other techniques.

One day, the instructor came up to Bobbie and said, \”I\’ve entered you in a tournament.\” Bobbie was aghast, he just knew he was going to be beaten like a dirty rug and tossed like yesterday\’s salad. Still, he trusted his instructor, so he went to the contest.

He faced his first opponent, and when that foe charged, he used the one technique and won the match. And he used that one technique to defeat a second fellow, and then a third one. When the end of tournament came, Bobbie had his division!

The next day Bobbie went to class and thanked his instructor. \”The thing I don\’t understand,\” remarked Bobby, \”is why that technique always worked!\” His instructor grinned and said, \”The only defense for that technique, in all the martial arts, is for your opponent to grab your left arm.

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