Martial Art is Life!

[egon_88_666]

As a side note there is a current polemic debate about a Tai Chi master who was badly beaten by a MMA fighter. I've heard the theory that it could be CCP who organized it, calling a weaking master to be beaten and then use reverse psychology to pull Kung Fu practicioners into the MMA world so the party could make money off them. If the case was just that Kung Fu/Tai Chi is useless against modern M.A. then there would not be cases of Shaolin monks who do that super-human feats like resisting KO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGsjtweGhho

To the post...

The first martial art I practiced was Karate. This is a video a friend sent me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nHZvbOtFSM

In my opinion, modern Karate is a waste of time, unless you have no martial arts avaliable near where you live, so it can be an open door. The movements of Karate he's using for the fight (and in general Karate) are called Kata and they are for lone demonstration, Taekwondo absorbed the same from Karate (Poomsae) but IMO the focus on it won't help in your progress or in real life unless there is something else to add. The difference of Taekwondo is what it has of original, it's actual fighting techniques, how you mantain the base and the dynamics of fighting are better for deffense and counter attack. This is my personal thinking after practicing both styles.

I also practiced Kickboxing/Thaiboxing, and I recognize their efficiency. The one thing I don't like very much in martial arts like these, MMA etc., is because it's too much deffense sports and less martial art, I think there must be a balance or it's like you're just playing football or other materialistic stuff, or then being a new ager on the extreme opposite.

Some useful material

Here is a good kick guiding by Grandmaster Shin Chul Kang:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqynXVif7k

Stretching exercises for kicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnfe8IYqlgs

I lay emphasis on Jiu-Jitsu as well, Hitler also recommended its practice in the Main Kampf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQHfoGQlxI

An interesting art, Hapkido:
https://www.leasidemartialarts.com/hapk ... an-masters


Marial Art is Life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKROCTGSd7Y




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As another note, the highest (9th Dan) poomsae/pattern in Taekwondo is in the shape of a swastika (Ilyeo):

 

[egon_88_666]

My answer to another user:

<b style="">...However, studying martial arts is duble edged.
... training can also be mixed with waste of time...[/B]

I've heard similar claims of how people who don't practice any form of combat can kick ass of martial artists because this or that reason, because they feel that somehow practicing a style of combat makes you limited into combat rules or some nonsense.

However who does have more chance of winning in a street fight, the avarage assuming Joe or someone who had some physical preparation and notions of self defense? I don't see how practicing martial arts can be double edged or waste of time in any of the points made, also I assume the people who will read the thread probably meditate, so it will just add even more into it and make them advanced in both the physical and spiritual.

It's observable this person is focused, well trained and will not be caught by "sucker punches" easily:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJb0zZiJ5w - depending on your wits and the place you live, you might never need combat skills in all your life.
So? We live in enemy-run world. Better be safe than sorry.

- almost all forms don't have spiritual training, and if they do it is not better than JoS meditations
Yes we have the best spiritual knowledge, however I don't see how this is an argument to not practice martial arts.

- athletic physical benefits are not on the same level with other disciplines (eg. triathlon).
They can be even better and less damaging for the body as in the cases of highly demanding sports like triathlon and basketball, that may harm one's health after a long time rather than improving it (eg. masters Helio Gracie and Kang Shin Chul).

- there are lots of cases where experienced overconfident fighters were surprised by a knife or a gun or a broken bottle and lost their lives.
This is an argument to not be overconfident, which does not have to do with training m.a. and overcoming physical limitations through it.

- there is no defense to being sucker punched
Well it does... But an excellent argument in favor of training a martial art. The avarage Joe have even less chance than the trained in defending and counter attacking, if I understood "sucker punched" correctly.

- almost all don't teach how to use weapons or use impracticable weapons(e.g swords,spears).
Because there are limitations in many areas concerning weapons, however even training with old weapons can help with improvisation where you cannot use fireguns, like in Ninjutsu or Kali Silat.

For example a 6 months person who learned how to use a slingshot could beat decades of experienced hand-to-hand fighter.
These hypothetical situations... Ok, the inverse could also be possible, and this does not makes m.a. a waste of time or "double edged", or makes the martial artist unable to use improvised weapons either.

 

[seerofss1]

What is ur thought?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oI84oM_bJeg

Other wise good and important to keep to mind

And saw that video. One of the video the the guy was explaining that tai chi in the past was good or okay for fighting however new age MA is more of a train and not.

Though as u said it may not been a master and propaganda.

 

[egon_88_666]

That's an interesting video but I'm not sure how trustable is the info that's the oldest m.a.

Some other videos:

Fight Science Kick Test (Capoeira, Karate, Muaythai & Taekwondo):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4EoWi5QSM

This is an interesting Ninjutsu channel with English subtitles oftenly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW6R-BqIyC8

More stretching tips, how to train for splits, with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMLxN30NECM

 

[centralforce6661]

References to Nei Gong and Qi Gong as martial art practices date back to 2500 BCE in the Huang di Nei Jing.

There are few intact references to martial arts systems older than this, but this is not the original record either..

 

[gbc4f6xau6kq3v3tmqkleqt2caxgpuqzbsckviit]

imagine how good our gods are at hand to hand fighting, being hundreds of thousands of years old...
i wonder how much does a 7 and a half foot tall muscular man weigh?

 

[egon_88_666]

Some good points on the Martial Arts thread on forum:

https://www.ancient-forums.com/viewtopi ... =513#p4939

VoiceofEnki:

A while back I was sucker punches, right on my temple by a dude who even had a running start. Somehow, don't ask me exactly how this happened, but somehow I was unscathed and didn't even flinch, it didn't hurt and it felt like his fist just kind of bounced off. I barely wobbled at all, and it definitly was a solid hit, right on my temple.

I saw it comming from the corner of my eye, but couldn't react in time (it was night and the dude was a black man in a black coat, so it was quite hard to see him comming in the small alley way where I was surrounded by these 10 thugs).

I'm not a trained martial artist, but I do have some experience. In this situation I was surrounded by a group of 10 dudes, who decided to be extremely aggressive to me. 3 of them attempted to push me down, after they had surrounded me. In that moment I felt my energy rise up, like a defence mechanism, then this one dude sucker punched me in the right temple. It didn't do anything as I said, due to my energy rising up the way it did.

I pushed the other 3 dudes who attempted to push me down off of me, and suddenly they all backed off and ended the conflict, they became timid like nothing had happened.

In a direct fight I would have stood no chance I think, in a one against 10 situation, where I was already surrounded. On top of that some of them were drunk as well as they reeked of alchohol. Still the moment my energy rose up and I stood my ground, pushing those dudes away from me they backed off.

The way your aura can influence other people is not something to be underestimated. In that moment, even though physically I lack the strength to fight against that many attackers, I got extremely pissed off and vizualized myself killing all of them, right then and there, I projected my anger and killing intent at those thugs almost instinctively and well they backed off and walked away right in that moment.

I can imagine the effects of your aura are not insignificant when you also have a strong, trained physique and have martial arts training as well.

It can soften incomming blows, strengthen your own fist which makes you hit much harder, influence the mind and soul of attackers in such a way they would think better than to attack you, even though physically they might have you beat. It can drastically reduce damage from any attack you suffered too and enhance your survivability significantly, which only get's amplified if you actually have a strong and well trained physique.

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Roswitha:

It seems material arts like shaolin kung fu and the more spiritual material arts deal with chi.
But what doesn't seem to be said is anything about how to use it.

If you think about how your aura can affect anything when you're aware of it and have done some practice with it.
Basicly that would just be a minor thing.

I think that you have to work on moving this energy within you. Get rid of blocks so it can flow freely.
Now I have watched this video below. And at some point after a few minutes people go flying off and they mention that by adapting ones own energy to another and moving it around causes to do that.

When you would use your own energy on someone else, that can lead to complications. As you wouldn't breathe in dirty energy during some practice of aquiring energy.
Some people go to pagan circles and they raise their energy or attempt to. Some are good at it and they then overwhelm others and make them nauseated with just their own energy. Now the average pagan has never heard of aura cleaning or anything like that, so it might have to do with this.
But I wanted to point out that this might be the possible reason that one would rather adapt their own energy to put another off balance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT2ZRUR-B0g

There is also another video I saw that was about healing with energy and the person said that male and female energies were united and that was used to heal others. Male below and female above. Which if one takes what one knows from the website turns that this might be the chakras that theyre talking about.

Also I will have to rewatch but more or less it was also said that mastering the female energies or the balance of male and female aka yin/yang has to do with some things one could do.
Now I have had spoken with someone in the past about meditation and stuff and he said that by separating the male and female energies inside the body he could ... like grow his finger nails real long in a short period of time ????? but when I asked about it years later the person wasn't much into meditation anymore.

But for those interested it might be worth trying to look up what you can do with this and what is true and what isn't.