Friday, December 4th, 2009 at
1:35 pm
One of the neatest things in cinema was when David Carradine in the old Kung Fu TV series walked on the rice paper. Rice paper is extremely thin, and the moisture on the sole of the foot, along with the weight of the body, was enough to tear the stuff. The legend, of course, was there is this thing called Light Kung Fu, where one could actually make the body lighter, maybe even levitate it.
Now, me and my friends would watch David Carradine, Kwai Chang Caine, and wish we had a kung fu master to teach us how to walk on rice paper. Why, we could do all sorts of things if we could only know Light Kung Fu! Bad guys would be nothing if we had that awesome ability!
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at
12:25 pm
Whap, bam and ka-zowie! We watch the silver screen, and we see kung fu flips in the Matrix movies and sword standing and eye gouging in Kill Bill and we know we have seen the real masters! Wake up, dude, that’s a a bunch of actors, and what the real masters have done would put those cinema heroes to shame.
Gichin Funakoshi is considered a pivotal karate master. He brought karate to Japan, and thence to the world. If that isn’t considered feat enough, why don’t you go stand on a rooftop during a hurricane and hold a sheet of plywood?
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Karate Masters, The Things They Did, and How You Can Become One!
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Monday, November 30th, 2009 at
1:31 pm
In part one we discussed that a person has to know something, and not just in the general monkey see monkey do sense of the current legion of so called masters. This article has to do with the second and even more important missing ingredient upon the part of todays masters. This article has to do with the amount of knowledge a master must have to be a Master.
Yes, a fellow can study an art and say he has mastered that art. He can get so good at karate, for instance, that nobody can beat him. That, however, doesn’t make him a master.
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How Can You Dare to Call Yourself a Master? (Part Two)
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at
2:12 am
Matrixing, to clear things up right from the start, is the analysis and handling of flow and force. Every every particle in this universe, every object, has a direction, and everything in the universe unlimited potentials for collision. Thus, the study of Matrixing becomes the single most important thing one can learn if one is going to study Shaolin kung fu.
Now to be thoroughly clear, and to set up this article in the proper manner, let me say that the martial arts are taught through the memorizing of random strings of data. This is like somebody memorizing a few songs on the guitar, and thinking he is the next Segovia. Obviously, one has to break through the memorizing process and start finding the structure of music, and how to arrange an art before he can make claim to being a master artist.
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at
2:09 am
Okay, I’ve been doing the martial arts since mid last century. I’ve lived through judo in the fifties, karate in the sixties, kung fu in the seventies, and stick fighting and shadow warriors and the UFC, and I’ve analyzed durn near every art there is. I’ve made up a list of things that I should have known before I started.
The point here is that martial arts classes were where one perspired, and not where one engaged in lengthy conversations. However, the reason a lot of people didn’t tell people things like what I am telling you here was because they didn’t know anything. So are you ready to learn a few of the things necessary before you jump into karate or kung fu or Aikido?
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Five Things I Should have Known About the Martial Arts!
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