This is not a new phenomena. This was the norm in China and Japan for many years. I think that it is a mechanism though which martial arts grow and is completely healthy in the long run. New things are tried and some fail. Styles will come and go, b…
As I said, my first test isn't definitive, but martial art is moving meditation. If it is being employed for the right reasons, even in a fight, it would still meet my criteria for meditation. I don't subscribe to the western view that meditation is…
Martial arts are by definition not sports. However, there are many sports out there that cloak themselves in martial arts. I like to judge a practice a sport if there is no meditation involved or taught to students. I'm not talking about 5 minutes b…
Yeah in some rings he would have been called for a 'blind kick' - he didn't get his head all the way around - but on the other hand he didn't need to since his opponent was so easily timed, due to all of the hopping up and down...
Jujutsu, TaeKwonDo, Systema, Krav Maga, Boxing, Modern Small Arms, Nothern Shaolin Kung Fu
School or Teacher
Shaolin Adapting Fist Kung Fu, New Hampshire
Experience
23 years
Birthday
December 11, 1977
Biography
Study and training have made up the majority of my life. Took a couple of years off to explore life but quickly found my way back to the artists path.
Quote
" From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."
-Benjamin Hoff
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