Martial Arts Corrupted!
The sad fact is, the martial arts are taught in the most inefficient manner possible. Done properly, the martial arts are a blessing and the most incredibly efficient method of combat on the planet, the method for their teaching is woefully inadequate. Monkey see monkey do is the name of this incredibly slow method.
Your mind is a computer. When one feeds random data into the computer the result is corruption. Things you learn contradict other things you learn, and the result is slowed reaction times as you sort through the data, and inefficiency, and the extraction of actually incorrect data. And you thought that low block would protect your face?
One form of corruption is vested interest, simply, somebody stands to gain, and therefore messes up the data of the martial arts. For instance, there is a pro MMA fighter who, during the Ultimate Fighter TV show, gave the ludicrous advice of hitting somebody in the foot. The reason he gave this advice was because, and this he admitted later on the show, was because he might have to face one of these fighters some day, so he wasn’t going to tell them squat.
Another form of corruption is the tournament itself, simply, the desire to win a trophy encourages one to follow certain rules, and these rules inhibit ones ability to survive on the street. A fellow doesn’t bother learning to protect his groin because the rules say the other fighter can’t strike him there. So guess where he gets hit when he has to use his art for real?
One of my favorite forms of corruption is national, for instance, the government tells you how to fight. You might think it doesn’t happen, but Korea started this thing called Tae Kown Do, and threw away the rather phenomenal art of Karate, and China killed off or imprisoned all its kung fu masters, then hired a bunch of physical education coaches to create wu shu. In this country we have the AAU, Olympic committees, and so on, and martial art do you think Obama is going to proscribe for you?
Another great corrupter is medicine, because medicine slants data. Students are taught how to do great damage to nerve points with a touch, but the student needs the ability to actually punch and survive in combat before he can go looking for fine, little nerve points. And being able to stop the heart, damage the kidney, and so on, is something that every school preaches, then they woefully neglect training a student to be able to absorb the actual impact of striking a human body.
Commercialism is probably one of the worst of the corrupters. How many mothers take their little Janies down to a karate school to learn to protect herself, and then scream in anger if their little Janie gets a cut lip or black eye? And what if the little Janie was actually taught how to knock the crap out of the school bully, what kind of lawsuits would result from that?
In conclusion, the martial arts have been corrupted. Fortunately, there is a solution to this mess, and it works quickly and easily, and it is the only solution on this planet, and there has never been anything like it. Unfortunately, if you don’t find this solution you are just a monkey, prone to the corruptions of art, and never really breaking into the true blessings of the True Art.
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