Three Steps To Making Deadly Martial Art Techniques
Posted: Monday, September 13, 2010
by Al Case
http://www.alcasebooks.com/
Everybody wants their training to result in the deadliest Martial Art Techniques, but most schools don't deliver. Teaching children, training for tournaments, these concepts take from the combative arts. Interestingly, one need only understand the three stages of technique, or bunkai, and it doesn't matter whether you do karate or kenpo or Aikido or whatever, and your art is going to get pretty darned deadly.
The form, you see, is a perfect idea. You practice it without distractions and you attempt to make each motion as perfect as possible. You cut down such things as reaction times, and you train your body to move like a well oiled machine.
The second thing you need to do is prctice the individual slices of the forms in bunkai, or combat tricks. You need to make the technique work through controlled resistance, you need to experience distraction. Most important, you need to understand what is going on when bodies collide with bodies.
The idea here is that you need to have somebody try to stop you from doing your technique. This enables you to deal with real live forces and flows, and go through the doors that will enable you to make a technique work, and to find all the 'what ifs' that will get in the way. This is perfection pushed to a new high; this is learning how to make the art work in spite of anything that might get in the way.
The third thing is to take your skills onto the mat and make them work. Here your kenpo techniques may not be so beautiful, in spite of anything Mr. Parker might say, and you are going to have to push through all resistance and make them be usable, in some fashion, anyway. Ultimately, as you test these applications and find the working parts, you are going to find the perfection of art available in such forms as sochin and bassai and even lowly kebon.
The thing you have to watch out for, in this process of making the art work, is coming to believe in violence as a solution. You must not allow the Joy of Combat, for that is a lie. You must, in spite of the chaotic nature of the art you study, hold to a calm, inner peace; you must control yourself until you find yourself.
The martial arts are a method of discovering yourself through intense workouts, and through the seeking and isolating of perfection in every technique you do. Perfection is there, you know, but there is a price that must be paid. Deadly Martial Arts Techniques, you see, are found only by seeking inner peace.
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