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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/2010/10/AlCase26.jpg]When we speak of the best martial arts forms we are speaking of those martial arts kata that result in a gradual and excessive benefit to the student. To be truthful, I usually recommend learning as many forms as possible, then specializing on the ones that the student prefers, although there can be tweaks in this approach. I recommend learning whole systems, first taekwondo, then karate, then kung fu, and so on.

The kebons are good, basic forms, and are common to both karate systems and taekwondo systems. Though there are three to five of these, I don\’t usually count them as forms because they are learning the important but easy 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 taeguks one should move directly into the Pinan forms from the Shotokan system, the Isshin ryu system, and other Japanese martial styles. The Pinan forms are actually designed more for weapons and weapon defenses, though not many people know that. The idea here is that one studies the Taeguks for hand to hand, then moves into the Pinans for a basic understanding of weapons disarms, and the beginnings of chi generation.

After the Pinans one should learn the three forms found in the Pan Gai Noon, which are the base forms from Uechi ryu Karate, and which are actually three extremely intense gung fu forms. These three patterns are sanchin, seisan, and sanseirui, though the last one is often thought of as more of a demonstration form. These three unique kata are specifically designed to build the intrinsic energy known as chi or ki.

The Sanchin form teaches a student to fasten the body/motor to the ground. There are not a lot of moves in it, but the moves are excellent for teaching one to use hard energy in self defense moves.

Sanchin is the power form, but seisan is the technique form. This form takes the power of sanchin and translates it into (probably) 13 specific self defense techniques. These are all based on one specific move called wa uke, which is a circle and grabbing block.

So to ultimate arrangement of forms is Kebons to Taeguk to Pinans to Sanchin and seisan; or, as art, from taekwondo to karate to kung fu. This sequencing of martial arts forms provides the student with the most complete arrangement of classical martial arts training possible. Other forms can and should be leaned, but the heart of the art can really be found in this arrangement of art.

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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/AlCase13.jpg]Power, in the Martial Arts, especially martial arts like Karate or Kung Fu is often measured by how hard you can hit. Thus, people hit the bag and the Makiwara, and they do push ups to strengthen their arms, and…and they are doing it all wrong. You see, there is one critical factor that they are missing, and so all their push ups and punches are having less effect than they would wish.

I want to make a point here…and I can only do that by asking you one specific question. Where, during your punch, do your arms bear the most weight? The answer is obvious, they bear it at the end of the punch, when the arm is nearly extended.

So why do you need to work your limb across the whole range of motion from the floor? Being strong at the beginning or middle of the hit is not where you need the strength. Concentrating your work out through the whole range of motion is not putting energy into the exact part of the punch where you need it.

So, do a work out, make it gentle and general, and build up your arms as a whole unit, then focus your work out on the end of the punch. This is easy to do, you can do it for virtually any exercise. All you have to do is isolate the part of the exercise where the arm is nearly extended, and put weight on that part of the exercise.

Let\’s say you\’re doing that staple of all exercise, a push up. Do the push up until your arms are nearly extended, and that\’s where the real work out starts to happen. Do as many six inch push ups with the arms nearly extended, as you can, fast, concentrating on keeping your belly tight and having good form.

Here\’s the point of it all, you need to concentrate the work out, and feel the power, in your shoulders. When you punch something the jolt of impact is going to go up your arms and directly into the shoulders. Thus, it is the shoulders that must become strong and dense, it is the shoulders, as felt in the last six inches of the push up, that must be built up.

Make the shoulders thick and dense, and do the exercise at various times of the day, until the muscles of the shoulders become as matter of fact as the leg muscles of a marathon runner. It\’s funny that people have never thought of this, and I wonder at it, but it is common sense. I suppose the problem is that people get a general idea of exercise and never actually look at the exact goal they are trying to accomplish.

So do those \’long arm 6 inch push ups like they are going out of style. Do them and put your awareness in your shoulders, letting your shoulders lightly bulk and become immensely dense. This is the way you develop a punch that is stronger than the next fellows, this is how you create the most powerful punch in the universe.

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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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