My favorite part of the martial arts is Karate Kumite. The sad truth, however, is that nobody knows the right way to do martial arts freestyle. They keep insisting on the stuff that gives pain and bruises and body injury.
I know, the reason for Karate, or Kenpo or Taekwondo, and martial arts in general, is to hurt somebody, correct? Sorry, it isn't. If you think that, then you've got it wrong...totally and dead wrong.
The real reason is to control an attacker, and modern martial arts freestyle methods do not teach you how to control, only to hurt. Interestingly, I was there when the freestyle scene went bad. Further, there are methods which teach one how to freestyle easily and without the pain within a couple of hours.
In my first lesson in kumite my kenpo instructor beating the holy crap out of me. The theory was that martial arts were a rite of passage, you had to be tough, you had to go through pain, that was the only way to get better. While I survived the lesson, and even thrived on it, other students just dropped out, and now you know why so many people quit the martial arts.
Towards the end of my kenpo training the sensei began making us wear (buy) protective gear. Instead of offering protection, however, it just encouraged us to punch and kick harder, and we actually suffered more injuries. I quickly realized it was just a trick to make more dojo income.
I then went to a traditional karate school, and, with no protective padding, stopped getting all the injuries. I still got a some bruises, but no more broken bones. The instructor was teaching control, not destruction.
This lesson, the benefits of control over destruction, stuck with me, and when I opened my own training hall I played with all sorts of methods to teach Kumite effectively, without the pain and trauma. And I finally understood a basic truth...people stop perceiving when you strike them. Isn't that an interesting concept to come to grips with after years of beating people up?
Thus, I teach freestyle in stages, and I use methods which do not close the eyes of the student, but rather opens their awareness. It's incredibly real and effective, and I guarantee my students will survive on the street better than most. Simply, they haven't been trained to shut down their perceptions, but rather to open their awareness, and the shocker is that using my methods people can learn Martial Arts freestyle within a couple of hours.
I know, the reason for Karate, or Kenpo or Taekwondo, and martial arts in general, is to hurt somebody, correct? Sorry, it isn't. If you think that, then you've got it wrong...totally and dead wrong.
The real reason is to control an attacker, and modern martial arts freestyle methods do not teach you how to control, only to hurt. Interestingly, I was there when the freestyle scene went bad. Further, there are methods which teach one how to freestyle easily and without the pain within a couple of hours.
In my first lesson in kumite my kenpo instructor beating the holy crap out of me. The theory was that martial arts were a rite of passage, you had to be tough, you had to go through pain, that was the only way to get better. While I survived the lesson, and even thrived on it, other students just dropped out, and now you know why so many people quit the martial arts.
Towards the end of my kenpo training the sensei began making us wear (buy) protective gear. Instead of offering protection, however, it just encouraged us to punch and kick harder, and we actually suffered more injuries. I quickly realized it was just a trick to make more dojo income.
I then went to a traditional karate school, and, with no protective padding, stopped getting all the injuries. I still got a some bruises, but no more broken bones. The instructor was teaching control, not destruction.
This lesson, the benefits of control over destruction, stuck with me, and when I opened my own training hall I played with all sorts of methods to teach Kumite effectively, without the pain and trauma. And I finally understood a basic truth...people stop perceiving when you strike them. Isn't that an interesting concept to come to grips with after years of beating people up?
Thus, I teach freestyle in stages, and I use methods which do not close the eyes of the student, but rather opens their awareness. It's incredibly real and effective, and I guarantee my students will survive on the street better than most. Simply, they haven't been trained to shut down their perceptions, but rather to open their awareness, and the shocker is that using my methods people can learn Martial Arts freestyle within a couple of hours.
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