* It is in vain to try to be the best fighter who will beat all the other and will provide himself with the certainty of never-be-beaten across his face by anyone. Who learned the basics of any martial art, he will go through his life and it will do for him with some little favor of Destiny. Who is so much strong as a man can be, regardless of it, somebody will beat him if it is predestined.
* Enemy teaches you to fight, to overcome the obstacles and motivates you for the performance. Without enemies, there would be no real fighters. Therefore be grateful to your enemies. Without them you would not be whom you are trying to be. The fighter.
* Yang style highlights a male energy, stresses the difference between a man and a women and helps their love.
* Spiritual-contact fight has two main forms:
1) The adept uses a part of his energy to imagine his opponent. Through this, he uses his energy against himself. The adept is not surprised by his opponent's actions whom he imagines, since he know what his opponent will do. Anyway, he planned that all in his mind in advance.
This form of spiritual contact develops the adept's abilities in a small degree only. The adept is not surprised by anything, there is nothing unexpected he must react to. He only learns to passively react to own imagination or energy.
2) The adept is striking into partially-materialized ghosts and uses his energy for fight with them and for his defense. The adept does not know when and how the ghosts will attack and therefore he must quickly react to their unexpected action. It is similar like a fight with a living opponent. By doing this, the adept actively improves himself.
* Train on boxing bag not only in the day but also in the night. The same is valid for sparring that should also be practiced at various hours of the night, since assaults are occurring most often just in the night.
* Although training at lonely places away from other people is beneficial, it however is missing disturbing influences of over-populated town and nearness of other people that the adept could be frightened of. Therefore after the attainment of a high fighting level in conditions of Nature it also is necessary to undergo fights in towns and before the sight of other people. The eventual mental barriers of the adept can retreat through this.
* Long ago, I have seen a house that was called "House At Seven Cats" and those cats really lived there. And martial arts were practiced there too. One of those who trained there for years accepted a new student and began to teach him in a very strange way:
He walked him to the forest and took one pair of boxing gloves with him. When they went in a kind of a small glade, he threw the strobiles and sticks out of that place and brought his learner in.
Then he ordered him to put the boxing gloves on and to start punching him with full force - without any technique. The student wondered and had inhibitions to act like that, but the teacher contended him to do that and promised to him he will not defend.
Then the student let himself be convinced and began to attack his teacher - on the beginning slightly, but later after repeated reminder with full force - who was skillfully dodging almost all the punches, but let himself be hit to the head for several times.
When the student became tired from beating his teacher, the teacher ordered him to stop and to take a rest. Then he walked the student back to that house full of cats and let him wash by water (it was a really hot day lol).
Then he made it clear for his student why he began his training in such a strange way. He explained that when a man wants to succeed in a real fight setting, he must lose his inhibitions first - he must learn to hit anybody with full force. He stressed the fact that only the fighter without mental inhibitions can fully use his combative ability.
Only in another lessons the student began to learn the philosophy and technique of fighting and learned a lot in that strange house. But he never forgot the first interesting lesson from his teacher.
* When a competition, a lot of other people are looking at you and you then have to fight not only your opponent but also your stage-fright from looking and chanting crowd:
* Never feel sorry about your defeat! Every defeat is a hardly-acquired experience, thanks to which the adept always learns something new. For example, the adept will let himself be surprised by someone and will receive an unexpected devastating blow. Next time he will be learned not to let himself be surprised so easily and his attention will be the bigger thanks to it.
* The Sun has excess in Yang and Moon excess in Yin. Therefore training of techniques in the night when Moon shines strengthens Yin and training in the middle of the day strengthens Yang.
* When somebody weak is beaten by others, his situation will not be solved for all the time by an impact of his stronger friend who will come to help by beating them. It is said: "When a man is given a fish, he has a food for one day. But when you will have taught him how to hunt fishes, he has a food for the rest of life." Therefore the best solution is to teach the poor guy how to fight and then he will be able to defend himself.
* There are rare types of souls (a very small number only), which use to be born as not only successful adepts of martial arts, but besides, also as good and healthy people (more serious sicknesses and injuries are keeping away from them). They have good performance, good character, higher intelligence and willingness to help the other people. After they lived through their full-valued life, they leave this world by a quick and venerable death. Their life is worth living. They live strongly, properly, justify, healthy and happily. And when you will really try, then you will possibly get to the idea how to become one of them.
* To increase the effectiveness and level of fighting, you have to practice sparring as:
- a fight with hands only
- a fight with feet only
- a fight with hands and feet together
You should also alternate your opponents and fight with a:
a) boxer
b) kickboxer
c) karatist
d) wrestler
e) judoist
f) person who trains a different animal style than that of you etc.
* In the future, robots and holograms will be used for training. But there is nothing like a living opponent, since when a mutual fight, the souls communicate with each other and exchange certain energy.
* The ability of fighting without physical body was one of the highest skillnesses in martial arts. Some Masters were sitting in a meditative position and instead of physical training they only thought at fight and imagined their body performing combative techniques. These Masters managed to leave their body and partially materialize out of it and to fight by their spirit only.
They might hit someone by their spiritual body but their physical one did not make a move at the same time. They did not leave the room they were sitting in, despite this they fought completely elsewhere.
When two such Masters met outside of their bodies and trained together "only" by their spirits or even with "the spirits of the fight" (ghosts that are leading those who train martial arts), in reality they practiced "mystical fight".
However remember that artificial imitation of mystical fight by means of "virtual reality" is quite a different matter and is extra unsuitable.
* There are no hard men. It uses to only be said around. If you would damage the bodies of "hard men" and caused them a maximum possible pain, all of them would break up immediately. Only he can be the hard man who has a good body and favor of Destiny, it means it is predestined that nobody and nothing will break him. Only then he can be so to speak "hard".
* Above all, he can be a true saint fighter who firstly experienced a weakness and a humiliation in him and only then he got the power. The better he can use it then.
* It is better to be at a lower combative level and deeply experience the techniques of martial art in the spirit of it's tradition, than to be for example a top-kickboxer who is fighting without inner deep experience of the techniques.
* The raising of a hand to strike and occupying a combative position may sometimes be a wasting of time when a real fight. It however is an important action if you train a combative set of movements, the techniques of which you are deeply experiencing.
* As a rule, who is attacked he gets the first blow. Ideal is to stand it and immediately perform a self-defense action - counter-attack. But to have as a big chance as possible to stand the blow, one must be used to blows. And to be used to blows, it can only be reached by the practicing of full-contact sparring.
* It is suitable in training when one opponent sometimes uses to continue in attacking the other even after bringing him to the ground. The adept must learn to defend even if on the ground. For it is usual, that when somebody brings you down in a real fight, he still steps on or kick you. It is necessary to learn to dodge, block and kick the opponent.
* In people who "only" experienced real conflict situations instead of visiting the gyms, for example at war, so-called "killing instinct" developed by some time.
If you train techniques on theoretic level only, then this instinct can never be developed fully. If you did not know a single one technique but always had to fight for a bare life, learning to automatically utilize a moment of surprise, would have to unexpectedly react and to overcome a fear, then you would get to a higher combative level than if you would train martial arts all through your life in the gym only. For the gym and life are two different things. Best is when a man has a good theoretic training and moreover also experiences from real fights. Then he can become a real killer.
* Brain as a mighty weapon:
Normal men are defenceless creatures. They hardly notice anything, certain people will easily wheedle them or unexpectedly surprise. Adept has to not only know how to fight well, but mainly, he has to know how to think. He must be an observant and mistrustful person and has to know how to see the relatedness of things. Physical training can be in vain if no tactics, suspiciousness and strategy. It is needed to watch everything for oneself and be always prepared, that a car running behind you will crash into you on purpose, that a man on the street who is passing you by will suddenly slash you with a knife, that he who is calmly talking to you for already quite some time can suddenly punch you and similarly. The key to the chance of using of martial art in time and not too late is this one: keep an advantage position and some distance off your potential opponent at all circumstances and always be prepared that anybody can attack you.
As this wisdom told to us, thinking is very important. Regardless of how good you are at some martial art, you will lose if you will not use your brain. There are some tricks that would destroy almost any martial artist and let me mention some of them:
- somebody will address you and you will turn toward him and at the moment somebody else will hit you from behind (so-called "blind attack")
- somebody will make some noise close to your house in the middle of the night supposing that you will open the door and will go outside to look what is happening there and then he will hit you with taser gun and will eventually break your bones with a pole weapon, if hired to hurt you in that way (if someone knocked on your door in the middle of the night, you would first look through the peephole or from your window and if it is a couple of strangers with weapons, then you would hardly ever open your door, that is why some noise in the neighborhood is a better tactics for such bad guys how to make you go out of your house).
* Although I stress the necessity of practical experience, it does not mean that the adept must find a cause for beating some ill or weaker one - an easy prey. He has to wait for a suitable opportunity (meeting with a relatively bad guy) or he is to enter such an environment where a conflict with someone will happen who is neither stronger nor too good.
* Unlike the performances shown within the circle of friends in the gym, the organism behaves in a rather different way when moments of a real endanger and fear. Shifted neuromuscular impulses, spasms or stiffness of the limbs often accompany the situations of a real jeopardy. The adept must get over this physical handicap, that is to overcome his own fear.
* It is a often-occurring phenomenon that some, frequently even pronouncedly strong and efficient people, have someone that they do not venture to oppose - whom they are afraid of. And this sometimes even in the case when they are of the same strength if not even stronger than the dreaded man, who however can only have a mental superiority over them. The most often it deals with a "fearful fixation" on some man, which usually develops in such times when the fearing one was either too weak or too young or simply had a bad luck and lost to that man and, since that time, began to be afraid of him.
If you cannot get rid of such a fear, then it is suitable to break all the contacts with him that you are afraid of for some time, in the course of which you will improve and develop yourselves, will fight and strengthen, and later will meet that guy again and beat him. In view of the negative and restricting fearful fixation on that man, it is suitable to undergo the first victorious conflict with him in front of someone who will increase your self-trust - the trainer, stronger friend and similarly.
* A question of fear:
Generally, excessive fear paralyzes and makes any action impossible. On the other hand, some forms of fear increase the performance but at the same time cause a chaotic and panic behavior. However, a total absention of any fear results in underestimating the opponent, in over-rating oneself and in the running of a too-high risky actions.
The goal of the fighter is to get rid of any excessive fear and minimize his fear to a necessary, reasonable and healthy minimum. So if we say that both no fear and too big fear are undesirable, then the result runs as follows: "The proper fighter is not to pronouncedly be afraid of enemies, he has to only feel a respect towards them."
And now a couple of words about those who are not afraid at all:
For example, some people claim that they are not afraid of anybody, of anything - these are the most self-confident out of all the self-confident, at least if they do not lie about their fearlessness.
But the reality is that who so-to-speak is not afraid of anything, as a matter of fact he knows nothing, and, as a rule, he is very naive too. There are places, pains, circumstances and creatures, whom one cannot be not afraid of.
And if he is not afraid of them, then only because he does not know them, does not know anything about them, cannot imagine and never experienced them. Above all, one is not afraid mainly when he has no knowledge about what he is not afraid of. Because if he would know it, he would begin to be afraid of it. From the above-mentioned it results, that: "Who is not afraid of anything, he knows nothing."
* I will acquaint you with a method how to exercise each limb separately. It can be used both by the sparring-partners who are about the same strength (both fight each other using one limb only - hand against hand, leg against leg), so by the partners, out of which one is markedly stronger than the other (the stronger one uses one limb only whereas the weaker one uses all the limbs).
This drill may be useful in practice because the fighter can find himself in a situation where he is not allowed to use all his limbs - on the other hand, two or one of them only (at the table in the pub, in a car with enemies and similarly).
* Because of the monkey element in us people and for the reason of genetic endowments for climbing and keeping one's own weight on the branches of a tree and similarly, therefore above all the exercises with one's own weight should be performed in martial arts training since the adept's youth (at the expense of not-so-necessary weightlifting training): four-feeted crawl on the ground (straightened feet and hands - the head is lower than buttocks and even shoulders are trained at this), abdominal lifts, squats without and with jumps (knees will touch the chest), presses-up, pulls-up, hand over hand moving when hanging, clambering (with and without crossed-leg grip) and similarly (excessive weightlifting training with dumbbells is not fully natural and furthermore it can also be dangerous - a torn muscle or an injury of the backbone).
As for the physical strength (muscle strength respectively) sufficient for the execution of a strong, penetrative strike, then - to my knowledge - anyone is able of a really strong strike who manages to lift up at least 60 kg in bench press. Does it seem to you too little? It does not matter! I remember people - good fighters - who did not have any too big power, however, despite that a very fast and very strong strike.
* Let me give us all an important question now: "Do the adepts of martial arts fight against the real evil?" As we know well, many of really bad people are often protected by Destiny. I hope I will not exaggerate a lot when I say that the rulers of Destiny (they are kinda bad!) are sending fighters and punchers mostly against him who does not deserve beating or deserves a little only (simply he must experience it whether he deserves it or not) and only less often on him who really deserves it much.
There are people who are relatively unscrupulous - bad, very self-confident and almost fearless, and no one will humble them or, if you like, beat them. One of the main reasons for the total self-confidence is a sub-conscious knowledge of Destiny, when the man (or his soul respectively) sub-consciously knows that nobody is to defeat him. The people who deserve humiliation and beating most of all and at the same time have the favor of Destiny, are hurting other people and are absolutely self-confident - with no notion of conscience and with no fear of punishment; these are just those who would deserve humiliation and defeat most of all. But Destiny protects them and does not send anyone against them who would stop and overpower them.
On the other hand, there are heartless people sometimes hit by Destiny that will send somebody strong and operational against them. But the souls of these people sub-consciously knew that somebody is to punish them and therefore the people were somehow softer and it is possible to say also less bad (than the worst ones protected by Destiny), since they sub-consciously knew they will lost and will be punished in the end.
I stress again:
The biggest evil, in given case the worst people are often protected and it is impossible to fight them with any success. On the other hand, it is only possible to fight the evil - people - who are less evil and less protected. So what is the point in a successful fight against those less evil and at the same time in the ignorance of the most evil ones and in this indirect supporting of them in this way?
A successful fight against the evil requires three things:
1) Wisdom to recognize the evil.
2) Strength to defeat the evil.
3) The favor of Destiny to have a success in fighting the evil.
If all the fighters, apart from their desire for doing of the Good, would have a great wisdom, a strength and the favor of Destiny at their disposal, only then they could face the real evil and successfully overpower and destroy it.
* Every proper fighter should take care of ethics and very carefully consider, if he is using his martial art - whether in personal life or in his job - in accordance with it's moral principles. Examples:
- he is a bouncer and takes care of the security of a prospering night club, but what if the biggest profit of this club goes to the hands of some egoistic people and he supports these rich men and their possession by his job?
- he teaches some guys his martial art, but what if his students are bad people who will abuse their fighting ability?
- he is a personal guardian of some people who are threatened and in danger. But what if it deals with people without any good character who harm other more than how they are useful for them and the best thing would be if their enemy succeeded and killed them?
* Some combative styles can impress wrong habits upon us - a wrong fixation, for example a raising one's elbow behind the body before the strike with the hand. If there was a wall behind you at that moment, you could break your elbow and made you ill in this way even before your opponent managed to touch you.
From this reason it is suitable to practice the sparring (with elbow protectors eventually) in a small room (2,5 x 2,5 meters), where will be well-exercised both "body-to-body" fight and the ability of using of the techniques in a small area and with a "wall behind back".
* Is it possible to be a fighter and a saint in one?
First of first, let's take a look at who are the fighter and the saint like. The fighter is relatively cool-hearted and beats / kills his enemies. And vice verse, the saint is as soft as a lamb - sensitive and wise. How is it possible to be both - the fighter and the saint - in one person?
Personally, I would recommend to train "both" by alternating the periods of physical and mystical training. For example, the adept will reserve a week for thinking and meditating and tries to develop a mercy with others and to see the light of Holy Spirit and to join it. And another week he only trains physically. When he developed the both (knowledge with mercy and physical combativeness), he may begin to train the two in the same days by gradual learning to "tune himself" anytime on the two - both physical aggression and the idea of mercy joined with wisdom. So the adept must be able to "quickly switch" from one to the other, everytime when it is necessary.
* There are situations when even a strong fighter must take a step back. This happens when he meets a superiority in numbers (for instance, a larger number of angry people will pile up on him in a small space when a fight in a pub or in a night club). If you got the feeling that a superior force is gonna to hit on you, it is suitable to run away quickly. Then you have two possibilities, either let it be or remember those aggressors and then find them and beat them one after another. Quite often there is a big difference between of how a man behaves in a group of people who support him or when he is totally alone. Then many "heroes" change in cowards. If you are about such an action, it is suitable to attack the leader of the group first, because when other members will get to know that you have beaten him, mostly they will begin to be afraid.
* If you deal with a man stronger than you, there are two possibilities: either retreat (when only a not-too-big loss threatens to you), or surprisingly hit him as the first and so get the advantage of the first blow.
* From the martial arts harmony viewpoint, it would be suitable to discard one-sided - both extreme Yin and extreme Yang - styles and practice only in both-directions orientated and multifarious styles. According my opinion, those should contain the following:
- fist, palm and elbow strikes
- all the basic kicks up to the belt
- training of the techniques in the air
- sets of combative movements for physically-spiritual training
- soft (no-contact) sparring
- hard (full contact) sparring
- beating of half-soft / half-hard obstacles
- training of grips for releasing out of the opponent's hold when a man-to-man fight, also the basics of ground fighting
- training of fight with basic weapons (knife, sword, pole)
[Whatever combative style you train, it is possible to make the using of it's techniques more quality when fight with strong power-struggles and wrestlers: let you take such a man as your helper and let him hold you gradually by many grips, and your task is to release using the techniques of your combative style. The respective wrestler has protectors you beat in while releasing out of his grip or hold. He only releases when your strikes (or other techniques) are sufficiently strong.
I recommend kicks up to the belly's height only, because when kicking the head, you may get out of balance and your opponent can also catch your leg. But I do not recommend the kicking the opponent's legs because of a risk of hitting the opponent's knee (it can result in a possible injury or breaking of your leg).]
* When the fighter is too slim, his physical strength needs not be sufficient when fight with strong and resistant opponents. And on the contrary if he is too fat, his actions are more slow and the weight of his belly, above all, pulls him down to the ground. Therefore I think that a half-slim figure is the best.
* Combative styles like Judo / Jiu-Jitsu (choking, joint locking) may be efficient when fight against one opponent but when more opponents, the combative styles are more efficient, which use kicks and strikes, above all.
* I incline to an opinion that martial arts should only be practiced more or less recreationally. Top sport performances always driven to the maximum may overload the organism and can cause more harm than use. Besides, to minimise the probability of your loss, you would have to be the strongest fighter in the world, which is hardly possible. Long ago, spirits called this "the abyss of difference that cannot be overstepped":
When you are as strong as a coyote, a wolf will come and will tear you down. When you are as strong as the wolf, then a leopard will come and will tear you down. When you will be as strong as the leopard, then a Sumatran tiger will come and will tear you down. And when you will be as strong as the Sumatran tiger, then a Siberian tiger or a Kodiak bear will come and will tear you down. That is such a big abyss of the difference that cannot be over-stepped because there will always be somebody stronger. And if there would be no one stronger, then something stronger will appear - sickness, old age, Nature catastrophe...
* Carefulness is needed when breaking techniques against hard objects! It is needless and dangerous to health to force the performance of breaking techniques to the maximum, because when real fight with other man, you will beat into his body - "half-soft" or if you like "half-hard" moving target and not a hard object (brick, a piece of ice, timber and similarly).
* The behavior of some secret martial groups is interesting, when their members act in public like weak people and do not claim their membership. Then their vicinity can easily underestimate them and they can take the advantage of it by the course of time.
* The interpretation of a well-known quotation "Mizu no kokoro" compares the fighter to the surface of an ocean: when the fighter is calm he is like a calm ocean. But in the same way like waves can appear on it's surface all of a sudden, so the fighter must be able to quickly switch from the state of peace and calmness to destructive aggression.
When the fight is really needed, the most important is to manage to quickly explode and without hesitating - in the fraction of one second - manage to exchange peace for deathfull attack. The start is the most important part - a very quick action without any preparation for it.
On the one hand, there are people who - when they train - cannot become more aggressive until several or more minutes - they get a kind of a slowly increasing attack of combativeness. And on the other hand there are people who manage to fight fully within one second and that is the thing that matters.
So important is to learn to switch from zero to maximum as fast as possible and contrariwise - to manage to return to the peace and calmness when the fight is over.
* Who learned the animal style of fighting, then at the moment of a conflict he changes into a real animal. He will frighten his opponent since he ceases to have a human appearance. Then his opponent does not fight a human any more but a trickish and predatory beast.
* Animal fighting styles are the only natural way of combat. They makes it possible to experience a beautiful and respectful relation towards animals. When the adept goes through the forest and will see a flying eagle on the sky, he honors this living Master of eagle claw. Then he recognizes a deer style Master in every deer, a sight at every tree reminds him about "tree position". In every snake he sees a living Master of snake style and makes a bow-down in front of him. He is looking around him and everywhere only Masters and great teachers. He honors and loves them.
* Martial arts training is worth practicing only if the practitioner will be able to use it in health for years to his satisfaction. If someone has learned some martial art and then soon fell ill and is no longer allowed to practice his art, the more his weakness hurts the bigger was his lost power.
* About a man who lost his power:
Things are not what they used to be but God forbid if they were! (Vaclav Hynek)
* To could honestly live, one must not be humiliated nor discommended. As for the honor, there is both general one valid for both genders - for every human, and male honor and female honor. We are however concerned in the honor of fighter now:
The proper man - fighter - is to be in this position:
Strong enough also healthy at the same time to be able to protect his relatives (woman and children, above all). He must be stronger than his woman to be a real man to her. His personality as a whole should be attractive for some at least a little pretty woman.
The proper fighter's girl-friend / wife is to be in this position:
She should be weaker than her boy-friend / husband and at least a little pretty and she should practice Yin and soft-type exercises to keep her health.
I appeal to women:
Do not become a girl-friend / wife of the men who, though rich and in a high or successful post in the society, are of a weak physical constitution and incompetent of any fighting. When you feel that you have met the right man, feel free to become his girl-friend even if he would be poorer and in a low position in the society. And when you feel that you have met a weakling, then avert your face from him, even if he would have millions and could financially secure your children. God knows how will the children look / live like when having the genes of such a man in them who (in the proper meaning) was not a man at all.
If the fighter is always losing he is obligated - in the interest of keeping of his honor - to change his style, teacher and to work further on the increasing of his fighting ability and power - to always try to improve and atone in this way his many-times losing by victory over somebody.
If the honor of the fighter was strongly broken, the man should have the right to die, because living in a big humiliation (or with it's non-atonable consequences) is worse than quick death.
Man is to be healthy and strong, and woman is to be healthy and pretty. If their appearance and health are damaged (the man is sick and cannot defend his family - he is weak and must retrocede; the woman lost her beauty), they should choose death and discontinue their less valuable life.
I say: "Either live strongly and well or do not live at all."
Human society with legalized euthanasia should indicate it also in the case of such a loss of honor.
* If the fighter is humiliated for more times and beaten in front of his wife, he will decrease in her eyes through this and she will cease to see a strong man in him. Maybe it would be suitable to consider breakup and finding a new girl-friend / wife who will (again) see a strong man in him and will revere him.
* There are people who are not capable of thinking (consideration of a change in their attitude, opinion, retreat) unless they feel a strong pain that you caused to them. These people are not open to any logic, word-arguments. The only way to make these people understand and accept a retreat or a compromise, is to cause them a pain. And if you did not cause them the pain then you did not tell them anything since they do not understand and do not want to understand pronounced words. Therefore physical violence is the only way of communication with these people, which I can recommend to you on the basics of my own personal experiences.
* Violence has no value, only the biggest one (a small violence is for nothing because it produces violence again, but the biggest violence is for everything, since it will cause - by the liquidation of all life - that no one living will suffer any more; it means that it is a sin to beat someone but it is not a sin to blow up the entire planet to make living beings suffer no more).
* The toughest fight is the fight with one's own bad qualities and with his desire to fight.
* Advice for those who are afraid:
Get over your fear! The only one strike, the only one movement of your hand will change so much, or not to dare is Fatal. And to dare is Fatal too.
* The teacher of martial arts needs not be a real Master of fighting, so he needs not be "unbeatable" or "perfect". He may even be weaker than his student.
Above all, the teacher is handing the technique, philosophy and shape of his martial art over his student. He however must be his own teacher too. He learns to utilize the technique and may use it even with a greater power than that of his own teacher. So he may be better at fight than his Master.
The task of the teacher is to provide his student with the theoretic form of the art and show him the way how to go further.
Example:
The teacher will teach the student some technique. He will explain to him how to perform the movement of the hand in the proper way. But:
a) the student may perform the technique - fist strike - under the sight of his Master only 50x per month, or:
b) he may train the technique every second day 100x, which is 1500x a month in total (old tradition says that the student will master the technique after he exercised it at least ten thousand times).
Besides, the student can train the technique both on objects and in fights and at the same time preserve it's theoretic and ideal look, and moreover gain a big force of penetration that could eventually be even greater than that of who taught him the technique - than the force of his own Master.
* The prey of the predator usually has a quick death. For it is usually quickly slaughtered by him. But the death of the predator himself uses to often be slower and more painful than the death of his own prey.
* It is not possible to gather a giant combative potential without using it. The tiger would be judged by the Creator if he would not use his claws and paws for hunting and killing.
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* When you watch more practitioners of the same degree you should notice a big individual difference of their performance at fight.
The rule is that:
1) The degree does not decide everything, more important is the force of penetration, the quality of techniques and ability to use them in practice. Several basic techniques trained properly and with contact fight should do bigger work than the biggest number of techniques having a low force and without practicing contact fights. So the quality of techniques is more important than their quantity.
2) The bigger number of techniques the adept knows, the longer time it takes to choose the most suitable one in given situation. This is also valid for people who train more combative styles at once. Each of them has it's philosophy and technique, differing from the other. If we little exaggerate it, at the moment of a real fight setting the adept may have a confusion in his head: "Which one out of the too many techniques and too many styles that I know should I use in this decisive moment?"
The same is valid for combative sets of movements. Even the basic sets only but forcefully performed may give more than those more difficult but trained superficially only.
From the above-mentioned it results:
Who does not want to become a real Master and is not willing to sacrifice everything to his art, there is nothing better for him but to learn the basic techniques of one style and always exercise them by regular repeating and make them fully automatic.
When technically difficult combative styles, there are two choices only: Either practice them to the bottom of one's soul or not to practice them at all. For to Master them is really very hard.
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* The sword, stick and similar weapons which "make the hand be longer" can become a part of the personality of him who trains with them very often. This is the reason for close connection between the fighter and his weapon, in later times between a samurai and his sword. When the sword broke, the samurai - it's owner - could feel it on himself even physically.
The fighter's soul is exchanging energy with other people by using a weapon for fight or training with them, that is for their mutual communication. In given case, the weapon is an immediator of energy exchange between the fighting.
* Training in Nature has two main advantages:
1) The adept gets to a closer connection to Nature.
2) The adept is not disturbed by disruptive influences of the city and therefore he can be more concentrated on the training itself.
* Respect for animals, for old tradition and for the founders of respective styles, even a deep philosophy and the long range of various techniques, which (if practiced in the right way with a deep inner experience) harmonically develop the practitioner and strengthen his relation to Nature - that all makes Kung Fu the best martial art on the world.
* I think it is a basic fault to give someone a technical degree for the performance of the techniques in the air only. The adept should prove he is able to use in practice all the techniques included in his degree.
* The adept is obligated to venerate the animal, the style of which he practices, and together with it venerate also old Masters who transferred it's movements into human form.
* It is the power of stars and Destiny that is wining. Not the proper training itself.
* In the same way like a predator must keep attention to other predators, also a strong fighter or a well-known slugger must keep attention too. Earlier or later, somebody stronger or more successful can appear who will kick him out of his gained position. Then many enemies will appear whom the slugger made at the times of his "power" and who kept away because of their fear of him.
* When a common man was beaten across his mouth, he only suffered a small disgrace, whereas if he was beaten across his mouth who was known to train martial arts or even enjoyed a reputation of a hard slugger, then his disgrace is the bigger.
* Only those should have the right to wear a weapon who are physically handicapped, if they have such an injury or such an illness, that their condition prevent them from giving the natural performance at the fight without weapon.
* Ideal is when two people fight (that is they experience their Yang and the necessary element of aggression) but at the same time will not hurt each other. But how to reach that? Let us ask old Asia!
* To be allowed to caress someone, you must be able to beat the other to prevent them from robing you of him, whom you caress. (Michal Höfer)
* Accordingly to my opinion, the most suitable is to train "universal combative styles", which use both fist, fingers and palm strikes, because if using variable places of your body to strike with, the bigger part of chi and human soul transforms at that, than when you would only strike with your fists (during the using of single places for striking, the energy flows differently than when strikes using different places).
* Although many passages in this book are praising full-contact fights, from Yin and Yang harmony point of view, also slow training of the techniques in the air should regularly be experienced together with light- or no-contact fights.
If all the techniques would only be trained with full force, they would be too Yang and when trained without force they would be too Yin. The fighter with a harmonic chi should therefore alternate the training of the techniques both on a theoretic level (combative sets of movements, no-contact fight, ideal performance in the air, meditation using martial arts techniques) and with contact. The both is to be alternated regularly to harmonically develop the chi.
To make it even more simple: Yang = full contact, Yin = training in the air, no contact fights and meditations. The adept should prefer more what is closer to his constitution.
* Combative potential is the gift that is to be used for doing of good and for preservation of true human values like the laugh of a child in the body of which there is a good soul, trees, forests, animals, love that is to beget the good and is worth living...
* You are strong and want to protect your women. That is okay. But never allow some women to manipulate you (by their dissimulation, rumors and misinterpretation) to beat someone who does not deserve it.
Example:
Long ago, some woman fell in love with a man who refused her. She innerly keeps a hatred for that man and she cries before her lover whom she gained (in betweentimes) how that man who refused her (she concedes or misinterprets this fact, of course) hurted her and will make her lover to beat that man.
The right fighter should also be - as I wrote in "Using Of Martial Arts In Practice" - a philosopher and a priest and therefore should also know the whims, complexes and deceptions of women and know that not everytime is the situation like some women interprete it. And therefore he should take a resolve to the actions that those women force him into, only with the biggest deliberation.
* Whomever you go to fight, you go to fight yourself.
* Who gave you a good technique he also gave you the means for communication with the entire universe and possibly even a way how to enter the (heavenly) "river of love" even before you leave this world. He also showed you a way to solve problems and to ventilate your inner emotional over-pressure and display the feelings you do not want or cannot share with others. When you have learned some combative technique it is as if you have learned a new language (of body and soul) thanks to which you will be able to speak with those that other people cannot speak with.
* If you use to train technically-demanding combative stances, let you go in every of them at least one kilometer forward and backward. Then your stance will be trained well. But do not do it too often not to burden your joints too much.
* Who is always exercising a certain strike and is always accompanying it by a certain idea (whether positive or negative), then he automatizes the strike so much that every times he performs it he also thinks that idea (he automatically sends a certain kind of energy into the hit target). So these long-years trained strikes may then act like a magic: "Magic strike" will change the hit person (either in better or worser meaning) - it may improve her memory, change her health, behavior etc.
This magical strike (a lower form of mystical strike with contact) usually has a distinct polarity that should adept compensate with the opposite polarity, that is by an exercise of an opposite charge. So the adept is allowed to hit anybody - not only automatically but also even by the method of emptiness - and change him by the one-sided current of the energy of his strike, but at the same time keep himself in harmony and good health by the compensation of the polarity of his strike.
* If all would train tai-chi and stimulate their energy by acupressure and acupuncture, then the chi of their descendants could start to (genetically) require an artificial and conscious stimulation (of one's own energy). Therefore, to preserve mankind's health, a mixture of human races is suitable and also the genes of those who do not think about their energy at all (do not stimulate it on purpose) but at the same time have a large amount of it for distribution.
* All the techniques of all the styles are theoretically solving any combative situation. And if the technique is theoretically usable, it should also be usable in practice. It does not matter what combative style it is about, but properly and for-years practiced training results in the end in the ability of the practical and effective using of it's techniques.
* If your technique failed, it did not fail, but it is you who failed. Simply, you did not manage to use it in practice.
* Blocks can be risky because one must not do it in time. Therefore a dodge is better than a block. Who dodges he cannot be hit by a strike since he is not in the place the strike beats into. He is elsewhere. So even the best performance of strikes should be less effective than the ability to dodge or retreat quickly (exception: when you will successfully block the strike, then your opponent is reachable by your hand since you are close to him at that moment - he is nearer than if you would dodge from him).
* The following exercise is suitable for learning how to block and cover against kicks and strikes. There is a wall behind the practitioner's back which makes it impossible for him to make any step back when his opponent tries to kick or strike him. It forces him to perform either block, dodge aside or their combination:
* When fight, it is better to keep one's teeth clenched than to open them (for example when a combative yell) and release jawbone muscles, because the jawbone is at this moment (and a part of the face too) easily hurtable (it will stand a weaker blow).
* Please notice a certain similarity of all with all (the law of action and reaction) and project it into the world of martial arts:
Reaction to visible action: dark cloud on the sky and then rain = pulling the bow and then shooting the arrow = raising of the hand and then strike (for example oi-tzuki in Karate).
Reaction to hidden action: a long-lasting presence of the snow on a mountain (which is seemingly motionless) and then a sudden slip of the avalanche = strike without raising of the hand before it (for example a direct in boxing).
* If you feel that a full contact minds you and you are not ready for it, then stop practicing it and let a light contact be enough for you. After all, you need not be Masters of fighting, if your art does a pleasure to you and keeps you in harmony; anyway, it will improve your condition and combative readiness, either more or less.
* Your combative style is your way of life and thinking, the way of behavior and dressing, and the art how to live in certain manners according certain rules.
* A bit of comfort for the losers (the winners do not need that). As it is said: "Glory to winners and honor to losers." Do not envy the winners too much if you lost. Learn to take it sportingly and realize that you have improved yourself through every lost since you have learned something new. Remember that if you are not the very last one then you won! So if there are for example fifty competitors and you are the forty ninth, then you are still the winner! For you have beaten one of them!
And for those the very last: Besides losing you also won because you managed to stand on the last place, to get over the disgrace and then raise and go and live further. It does not matter that you are the last. Let you try it again and again until you will not be the last!
And when you try to succeed again and again and it always does not work for you and all the preparation for the competitions is a too big stress-matter for you and a kind of excessive burden, then stop participating and never go there again! Such a man, as Michal Höfer said it, will win through his understanding that he does not belong there and has nothing to do there.
