The Real Secret Of The Dim Mak Kung Fu Death Touch
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/AlCase1.jpg] Let’s be honest, in my giving you The Real Secret of the Dim Mak Poison Hand Death Touch, there’s going to be a few people who like what I say, and there’s going to be a few people who don’t like what I say. Well, fantasies die hard, but the truth is always better in the long run. The truth, when it comes to using the death touch to kill people, is not all it is knocked up to be.
In the first place, this knowledge exists, but it is extremely hard to find a teacher, and to be accepted as a student is really hard. You have to have actually studied a few kung fu styles, you have to have an letter from a Kung Fu Master. And that is no guarantee that you will be accepted as a student.
In the second place, one must question the value of studying such a rare and difficult art. It will take years to gain the knowledge and to be able to actually use it in a fight. Quite honestly, the time spent learning the death touch you could spend learning other arts.
And, what is more valuable? The ability to touch somebody and have him go off and die three days later at the appointed hour? Or to get so good at other arts that nobody could get close enough to you to even try a dim mak?
To learn the Dim Mak one will be studying acupuncture, but not the normal science. You will not learn to alleviate disease, but rather to cause the body to go into disharmony. This means that you will have the double study of learning the right way to do things, and the wrong way.
You will also have to learn certain things about the time of day that you can apply this art. You could touch somebody with your digits, but if it is the wrong time of the day, or even week, the trick is wasted. This means you are going to have to learn all sorts of things about the life cycle of the inner parts of the body, and how these organs relate to the trigger points on the outside of the body.
Look, I’m about done here, and you’re free to do what you want, but let me tell you one little tale of a real death touch. Certain ninpo arts teach how to wear ring needles (and other types of gimcracks). They coat the needle with a deadly poison, then cover the needle with wax.
They can poison anybody and cause death, but they are safe to themselves and their friends. Now this is a real art that I am telling you, but one that doesn’t take decades to learn and use. And that is about all I have to say on the subject of the real secret of the kung fu dim mak death touch.
Al Case began practicing the martial arts in 1967, and became a writer for the magazines in 1981. If you want some really cooltricks, mouse over to his website, Monster Martial Arts.
American Kenpo Karate May Be Overweight And Unwieldy!
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/AlCase41.gif]I sauntered into my first American Kenpo Karate dojo over 4 decades ago. This was the Rod Martin offshoot of Tracys Kenpo, which had broken from Ed Parker Kenpo Karate. Therein lies the first problem with the art of American Kenpo.
It grew much too fast. In the east instructors didn’t teach until they had a minimum of a decade of experience, had studied under a variety of teachers and had learned a variety of martial arts styles. We were borning senseis every 3 years, which is how long it took to bring a student to black belt back then.
Of course, there is also the problem of which kenpo is the true kenpo? Ed Parker, you see, developed five different kenpos. If you learned an earlier version, is it now considered…less than kenpo?
And, this bring us to the fact that there are variations of the versions. There are senseis who have created combat kenpo and tournament kenpo and MMA kenpo, and so on. It seems there are as many types of kenpo as there are people practicing it.
I first became aware of this phenomena, too many versions, while putting together Monkey Boxing, which, in one sense, is my variation of kenpo, or at least as close as I can come to a kenpo. I had studied my a version of the variation of the art way back when, then I picked up Larry Tatum Kenpo, and I had come across some of the kenpo connection material, then I came across rather massive instruction books on Olympic kenpo, and I believe I had two other variations of the art.
As I went through the endless number of techniques I saw how the changes were sometimes small, and sometimes large, but always tailored by the person making the changes. Now, to be honest, every art should be a creation of the individual, and kenpo does seem suited to this. Still, it would be nice to have an exact set of applications, and maybe a list of exact concepts that would standardize the kenpo art before individual martial arts instructors expanded it with their own variations.
In the final analysis, I boiled the techniques of five complete arts, with a couple or three partial arts, down to 40 specific techniques. I am sure there will be some who shake their heads at this. After all, how can one summate over 500 techniques, and all the evolutions thereof, with but 40 techniques?
Well, I offer no excuse, I merely advise the reader to set himself or herself the task of collecting sufficient versions that you might have a complete viewpoint of the art. Then, start organizing the overwhelming glut of knowledge. It will be a hard task, a number nine headache, but you might end up a true master of American Kenpo Karate.
Al Case, the greatest martial arts writer of all time (almost 2,000,000 words in print), is at Monster Martial Arts. You can see his forty technique variation of American Kenpo Karate there. Make sure you get his free book on Matrixing. 1
How To Develop Power Kick Strategies In Karate
[I:http://www.aikido-judo-karate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/AlCase15.jpg]Kicking is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the martial arts. You are potentially off balance, fighting at longer range, and yet must adhere to certain basic strategies of combat. This article, however, should enable you to offset the disadvantages and develop an excellent strategy for combat, and even develop some pretty strong and powerful kicks.
Interestingly, kicks were not always considered combat useful, they didn’t even impact on the American martial arts until the sixties. Watch the kicks in cinema earlier than that and you don’t see much, not even in the old gung fu flix. The reason for this lack of adequate leg development had to do with what people wore and basic combat strategy.
Soldiers in older times often wore armor in combat. This meant that they were carrying more weight, and their balances were often at risk if they wanted to deliver some sort of leg attack. Ask a modern day solder to kick while wearing body armor, a back pack, a rifle, while wearing combat boots, and you will easily see my point.
Another reason was that soldiers carried swords. Why on earth would you attempt a leg attack, which is slower than punching, and larger and easier to see, to a fellow who was holding something long and sharp? Or, with today’s modern warfare, a weapon that could shoot projectiles over distances?
Thus, before Tae Kwon Do reared its head, with that art’s spinning kicks and head hunters and ax kicks, martial arts foot techniques were quite a bit different. Instead of lifting the leg up and shooting it in, which could often be easily defended against, the leg was chambered with the foot cupping the standing knee, and then snapped out. In other words, a leg attack was actually more of a slap with the outside portion of the foot.
A lot of power could be delivered with this type of foot, and one didn’t have to risk being off balance, and it wasn’t out long enough to be chopped off. Actually, it was designed for close in work, not the long ranges developed by some of today’s arts. And, speaking of long range kicks, we now come face to face with today’s modern legwork.
Long, spinning, jumping kicks came into vogue with the Tae Kwon Do influence of the 60s. Long kicks took more energy, were great for conditioning, and were so different that they worked, at least in the beginning. Now, however, while they are good for a change up, most people understand and see the long kicks, and so they treat them as a part of strategy, and not the end all to strategy.
It is doubtful that we will ever go back to lower, short range, slapping kicks of ancient times. And, there is good reason for practicing the long, high kicks, for they are pretty darn good for shifting distances in a fight. And, the good news, one can, through a bit of perspiration and a helping of intelligence, develop powerful kicks in any art, be it Karate, Kung Fu, or whatever.
Al Case began kicking 4O years ago in the Kang Duk Won. You can pick up a free ebook describing his methods at Monster Martial Arts.
