An Interview With Todai Ryan

Okay... So first of all, a big apology to all for being so wickedly long-winded. I'm used to lecturing for three hours at a time, so for me to spout and ramble for an hour is nothing. But this is close to two hours! Responding to the questions Sifu asked me to consider. It was a 'third time's a charm' scenario. Yesterday afternoon, I spoke to my camera for an hour, then realized it was never even recording. Last night, I experimented with a different way of presenting my ideas, but didn't like it. So this evening, I put it into what is to me a familiar kind of format, and went at it, trying to record at least a good number of the ideas I've had over the last couple days since these questions were suggested. My mind is still rolling, so maybe something else will come out in the next day or two as I continue to consider the matter, and probably for some time to come. But anyway, for those who dare part with their precious time long enough to bear this out, here is my interview, recorded in two parts...

Structure Vs Creativity

I’m posting two videos tonight. The first is a book review of a novel called ‘A Sudden Dawn’ by Goran Powell, which narrates the life of Bodhidarma, the founder of Zen meditation and Shaolin martial arts. For me, this was very much the perfect novel, depicting a lot of outdoors training and inspiration from animals. I enjoyed reading it, cover-to-cover, which I don’t often do

The second video is my initial response to some of the philosia posts that Sifu has added to the FMA/ ZMA YouTube channel and blog. I draw an analogy between learning and marketing martial arts and woodworking arts in an attempt to shed some light on the dilemma on whether to favor structure or creativity, and to further examine the exploitation that’s going on with JKD

Shunyuan: Spiritual Discussion

CLF And Walking Stick In Snake Coulee

It was another full day of training for me – dawn at the park, five hours at the river, afternoon siesta and evening at the dojo. The place I went to on the river is my winter study grounds. I call it Pitsiiksiinaikawaahko (Snake Coulee), because there is an abundance of rattlesnakes along this stretch. It’s a relocation site for those snakes who wander into residential areas, and I am one of three volunteers who are called upon to capture them and bring them out there. I was hoping to show you guys one of the snakes, but unfortunately I didn’t come across any today. It was too hot, even for the rattlers! Perhaps soon I’ll have an auspicious opportunity to express more on my views regarding community/ societal service, and my work with the snakes being part of this

I did have a lot of fun today in the coulee though, gathering food and medicine plants, rucking my usual seventy pounds the whole while, and training both in CLF and with a walking-stick. The video is long, just over an hour. I completely understand that most won’t bother watching, given this length. I have posted it anyway. The first half is completely about the plants of the day, including a couple that you should have available just about anywhere in the northern hemisphere. The second half of the video (starting at about 34 minutes in) is entirely martial arts. You will see that, by the time I get to the CLF stuff, three hours into my hike, and after swimming against the river current for a bit, my legs are pretty shaky. I try to put a low side kick out to hold, and almost completely crumble. This unbalance irritates me, so I move to the forest and find a fallen tree, about five feet off the ground, to practice on so that I have to stay balanced, whether my legs want me to or not. The tree turned out to be a very good idea, and I will definitely be returning there. Enjoy your training!

KSW Cutting Form 1

So my good friend recently learned this cutting form and wanted to share it with me. we played with it for a bit. I have also learned his Bong (Staff/Bo) form to help him with the 2 person form.

Sidai Wei CLF Progress

Here is Sidai Wei's CLF progress, he was training at the kwoon once a week for quite some time but then recently started training 2 times a week at the kwoon which enabled him to progress much quicker in the CLF form.  His fitness level has improved greatly since he began training.  The form is satisfactory & he is ready to move onto the next form, which will be the TKD jumping kicks.  Of course there is room for improvement but right now it looks good enough to move on.  While you train through the ZMA online private videos, watch this progression video in order to further understand what is expected in order to move onto the next lessons.

Safe Sparring 1

Ok guys here it is. This is just an attempt at sparring, playing around.

How I Breakfall

Promised Jia the other day that I would make a how-to video going over the breakfalls I was practicing in one of my earlier training sessions. So after this morning's workout, I put one together. It was fairly windy, so the sound has to be turned up a bit to hear me well. But in any case, I go over the basic forward and backward breakfalls as I know them. There are also more elaborate variations of these falls that I can perform, and that come into play when you're training locks and throws with a partner. This is especially the case with the forward roll, where you need to learn how to go without your lead hand (which may be locked), or sometimes also to go with no hands at all if both are locked. I recently demonstrated a no-hands forward breakfall at our karate dojo on hardwood floors to no painful effect, and that comes from repeated practice of the falls I'm showing in this video presently. If I can get my wife trained in delivering some of the classic throws, I'll put another video up showing those other falls in the future. Anyway, hope it helps...

Todai Kang CLF Progress

Form looks great, very precise with every movement & graceful.  I can tell you have been working hard, You are ready for the next lessons.  You can always work on getting the stances lower & holding them longer.  Once you get the horse, arrow, & cross stances to the lowest position, keep trying to get that cat stance lower, this can take many years to perfect. 

Great job, you were hitting that pole pretty hard, I saw it shaking, & that pole is pretty thick, keep up the good work, you got good body movement.  Just be careful not to push yourself too much, gradually develop yourself in exercises such as this.

Inspiration From A Bird

This video is for our blog... it wouldn't make much sense decontextualized on YouTube. This is my pet crow, Keira. I found her on the side of the road fourteen months ago. She had been hit by a car while scavenging for food at a drive-thru. Her left wing was wide open, with compound fractures and tendons hanging out. I brought her to several vets, but they wouldn't treat her, because she is a 'wild' animal. I inquired at various avian rehabilitation facilities, and they said that by Alberta law they would have to put her down, because she'll never fly again. They were right about the last part. She won't fly again. But I'm certain that, like any of us, she values her life all the same, and wants to continue experiencing it

Taking Keira home, my wife and I put raw honey on the wound and bandaged her injured wing. We kept it bandaged for seven weeks. Six months later, she still wasn't able to move more on that side than a shrug of the shoulder. But every day, she works at it. Lately, her workouts are about two hours long. During that stretch, she performs the hops and wing-lifts you see in this video. About every fifteen or twenty minutes, she walks off and has a drink of water, then comes back for more. Over the last few days, she has developed a new technique, a 180 degree mid-air turn around, using her good wing as propulsion. You will see her perform that move a few times in this video. Knowing her expressions well, I can see the pride in her eyes when she pulls it off successfully

Keira inspires me in a few different ways. First of all, she doesn't give up. She's going to continue to try to fly, and she's happy about each little bit of development she achieves. Secondly, I observe that she enjoys this practice. It's not a burden to her. It's something she looks forward to, and she's joyous as she engages in it. Finally, I find analogy between our species and Keira. It seems to me like, somewhere along the line, our species experienced some developmental accident, where we lost most of our strength, speed, flexibility, timing, awareness, etc. Our ancestors traded it for something else. But every once in a while, there'll be some member of our species, like Bruce Lee for instance, who demonstrates how far we can still go in retrieving our original potentiality. However, most of us who try are more like Keira. We may never fly, but that doesn't mean we quit imagining it's possible, or quit trying to meet our potential as human beings. To me, this is part of what it means to be really alive

Todai Ling FMK Week 2

So here it is !
I have made a few videos of today's workout, and I will probably make a new post every week (meaning 6-7 days of real training) to track my progress in training FMK.
I hope that I can present Shi Zu the CLF form in one week for him to consider if I can continue my progress or if important things must be corrected. For now, this is primarily meant for me to see how I progress through the program.

The first video is a new attempt with the CLF form :

I have included some weights that I have attached to my wrists. They weight 3 pounds.
I use it to work on my forms in order to balance lower/upper body workout. When you try to do your form with it, it mostly makes you look like a beginner, which is interesting.

The second video is my first attempt with the Kung Fu dance, popularized by Shi Zu

As I work on techniques after the cardio and strength workout (and a good party, you can tell by the way the eyes look ^^) the techniques don't really flow and you can hear a lot of breathing!

Then I made a TKD video :

It is very short, but I have tried to always look at my target and keep my hands up in a defense position (something I have to improve on)

The last video represents what I usually do to finish with techniques, which means going crazy and improvise with techniques. I try to visualize an opponent, or situation and let the technique flow.

Hope you will enjoy it. Please feel free to make any remark regarding technique, schedule ... I realize that I started a few weeks ago so there's a lot of things to improve.
For the next weeks I might had some variety, filming the stretches I go through, or jump rope, fitness, trampoline, sparring... lots of fun in perspective ;)
For now I will go to sleep (jet lag France/ USA) after finishing Osho's Freedom book.
I wish all of you a very pleasant day,

Todai Ling

The Missing Video

Okay, here’s the second video that was missing from my post yesterday. Finally sorted out what the problem was. I tried to get fancy and close in tight on the clip toward the end, with all the minnows swimming upstream, and that was throwing my crappy video-editing software off.  So I guess you’ll just have to imagine what they would look like close up. Although I didn’t talk about it at the time, what these minnows are doing is a fairly significant phenological event. There’s an endless stream of them moving upriver right now. I’ve often considered netting them for a half-hour or so in this season, drying them out, grinding them up, and making fish-balls with them, for soups and such. I think the only reason I haven’t done so is because I’m a little concerned about the parasites they might carry in their guts, and it’s not like they can be cleaned. But I don’t know… this kind of concern doesn’t affect me with a lot of other foods, and I often drink untreated water straight from puddles and streams. I think it’s good to build up a diverse microbial community inside my body. I mean, isn’t it odd that all the other animals can get by drinking this water, but our constitution is somehow too weak to do so?

Anyway… here it is. Again, there are no ‘martial arts’ per say in this video, but it is very much about MY kung fu. At some point, I will try to articulate my thoughts on this matter a bit more clearly than I do here, though I’m sure you’ll get the gist. A huge part of my life is wrapped up in the active (i.e. not literature-based) study of local ecology, and how to be a part of that as a real human being. My challenge at present is to find a comfortable merge between this engagement with the total reality, and my affection for unarmed (or spontaneously armed) combat arts. Both passions hit me at age twelve, and I have yet to learn how to balance or weave them. There’s an obvious confluence in the area of diet and nutrition. But I think it can be more than that. In fact, I find it very interesting that the weapons of traditional martial arts are often also the tools of hunting and harvest. I’m also interested in styles of fighting that are explicitly influenced by observations of animals. This is very much aligned with my general perspective, which is that one’s way of life should be learned-from and fit-in-with the other species we co-exist with. Perhaps my ultimate response to Sifu’s challenge, to be an artist rather than a collector, will be to develop my own practices inspired by the animals of my immediate region. We shall see. But in any case, urban or rural, I highly recommend getting interested in the foods that naturally occur near your home. The plants and animals are waiting for us to behave like humans again.

Some photographs I took along the way...

Viceroy Butterfly On Golden Currant

Mama Oriole

Fledgling Oriole

Pale Snakeskin Dragonfly On Alfalfa

Morning Mixer

It's really late here in Alberta... I just completed pretty much an all-day training session. It started off with a couple hours just after dawn at the park. The highlights of this practice are featured in the first segment below. To keep things flowing, I cut the video to about a minute or so for each exercise, with maybe a little more time for CLF and shadow-boxing. The city was kind enough to cut up the huge fallen tree limb, and yet leave these pieces for later pick-up. I've incorporated some of this heavy wet-wood into my workout, and stashed these logs away in nearby brush, where I hope they will remain for further use. After a breakfast of 'wild' (Canada) goose eggs, I headed down to the river to harvest some berries, roots, and mint. This is featured in the second video (if it ever finishes loading), for those who may be interested. There are no 'martial arts' in this latter video, but I'm rucking seventy pounds throughout, and there's at least one decent philosophical rant. By late afternoon, I was tired, and so picked up the Mrs. from her office and went home to nap for an hour or so. In the evening, we headed over to the dojo for gohakukai practice. Afterward, we ate bison ribs and yams. All in all, a very full day.

FMK: Zen Fitness - Self-Defense - Zen Martial Arts

Through my training in the Martial Arts, I have learned to see things as a whole. But now that I am teaching professionally, I have been forced to categorize & label in order to help others gain a deeper understanding.  Now I teach Zen Fitness, Self-Defense, & what I call Zen Martial Arts.  Zen Martial Arts incorporates the balanced development of the Body, Mind, & Spirit.  Zen Martial Arts incorporates total body fitness development, survival self-defense training, & spiritual development.  A majority of the public holds no interest in self-defense training; they hold more interest in fitness progression. 

I have noticed from the public, most people are interested in getting fit, the next is self-defense survival skills & the least is spiritual development.  Knowing this, I have decided to focus a majority of my energies on the promotion of Zen Fitness.  Through being introduced to Fitness training, people may begin to develop an understanding of Zen, if it ends there, it ends there, much has been accomplished.  A selected few find passion in the training of combative techniques, these individuals will be practicing Self-Defense, those who practice Self-Defense may begin to develop an understanding of Zen, if that occurs, then it becomes Zen Martial Arts. 

I have set up different paths for people to gradually enter into Zen Martial Arts.  A majority of the public will begin training in Zen Fitness or Self-Defense before partaking in Zen Martial Arts.  A selected few will immediately enter into Zen Martial Arts. 

Thoughts On Sparring

I sat down the other day to make this video, regarding some of my thoughts on sparring in relation to the whole of martial arts. However, I hesitated to post it, because although it is in part a response to Sifu's recent video "Just Keep Sparring And You'll Figure It Out," I do not want it to be perceived as contradictory to that teaching. In my experience, as Sifu attests, sparring is the unparalleled tool for fairly rapid development of readily applicable combat skills. On the other hand, beyond my personal experience (i.e. outside of something I can attest to having successfully embodied myself), I have witnessed combat skills in action that are superior to what is normally gained through even extensive sparring, and this involves a talented utilization of some of the more complex and seemingly less-efficient techniques, specifically those nested in traditional forms and katas. There is a narrated example of this in my video. 

In addition, it is my experience that there are far more benefits to martial arts practice/training than preparation for combat. For instance, I don't know that my wife would be alive right now, were it not for the unique, full-body, unassisted, physical-therapeutic aspects of practicing simple martial arts techniques. You saw her in a couple of my earlier videos... Can you imagine that she spent nearly two years in a wheelchair, absolutely unable to stand up or even close her hands, because of a debilitating rheumatoid condition? Karate has played a big part in her battle against this auto-immune disorder, drastically increasing the results she was getting from modern medicine.

Even once you learn to fight fairly well, I would not recommend moving on to something else, and leaving martial arts behind. I did that myself, for at least eight years, and look now... I'm right back, trying to regain the conditioning, flexibility, and rhythm I never should have let myself lose. There is a certain type of whole-body connectedness that is developed through martial arts practice in a manner that, at least to my knowledge, cannot be gained through just any athletic practice.

With Sifu's permission, I'm posting my thoughts this evening:

Todai Jia: CLF form progress

I can tell you have been working hard on this form, you have improved a lot, which is great.  I like your graceful movements with the hands, your legs are getting stronger, keep working it, aim to get lower on all stances & minimize all shaking.  When you are in the arrow stance, get the hand that is coming forward to be a vertical knifehand & do not overextend your elbow, keep your elbow bent so that the knifehand remains vertical, watch the instruction video over again & pay attention to what I state about the front hand, also look forward to the front hand.  Keep up the good work, it is looking much better, I can tell you are getting more fit, which is exactly what this form is designed to do.

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the oppressed

In this book, the Brazilian author Paulo Freire depicts a critical understanding of education. Being a teacher myself, I have to say that this book really touched me and gave me the material I needed to consider the primary questions I had to answer.

Key concepts : oppressors and oppressed

In the first chapter, P. Freire describes society in his terms, making a clear distinction between the oppressors and the oppressed. The oppressed are forced to live in a world they didn’t create and in which they do not know the codes. They are voluntarily kept ignorant by the oppressors, who surprisingly, only represent 1% of the population.

Freire gives the remedy to this situation which he calls “concientizacao”. This is the educating process through which the oppressed discover and accept their condition and try to find the way out of it. From the very first pages of the book, it is made clear that without consciousness, there is no possible progress.

This process of liberation is not seen as a gift or a self-achievement though, but as a mutual process. Great importance is given to the synergy effect and how crucial it is to have a “group consciousness” and to take action in order to educate others by an horizontal fraternity (meaning within a same social group, which is in fact, the only fraternity alive).

In chapter 2, he focuses on the system of education, comparing it to the banking system. This analogy is in fact, extremely relevant in so far as there is the will to “fill” what is considered “empty”. This harsh but accurate statement led him to say “education ss suffering from narration sickness”.

Technically, vibrant and young spirits are kept sitting for 7 hours a day, having to remain quiet and listen to “the person who knows” in a classroom where any breach of discipline no matter how stupid the teacher is, is punished (that’s my personal thought here, for which I have undergone my hierarchy’s anger this year and throughout my scholarship).

Moreover, the ability of the learner is evaluated with figures that are of major importance to society. The higher the mark, the better and the lower the worse.

Paulo Freire endeavors to find concrete solutions, underlining the fact that education is a mutual and world-mediated process, in which everyone as experience to share. The truth is : most of the things we learn at  school will be forgotten within a month and more importantly, that we have rarely used it in our daily lives. On the contrary, the most important things we have learnt are processes like cooperation, unity, organization development and synthesis learnt primarily outside school from experience.

Chapter 3 concentrates on dialogue.

Dialogics is the system that should be used in teaching. It consists in a dialogue form of teaching inherited from the church and has the quality to consider the learner as a reflecting and mature subject. Together, the learner and the teacher will search for a theme to study and define in what practical situations it can be used. The author defines the quality subject (which arouses intellectual curiosity) as “the generative theme”. To debate and learn from these theme, on which everyone has an opinion and knowledge, the investigative style is proposed. An investigation suggests that a group, in which everyone as a precise role will make the best of each member’s ability to find a solution. This kind of work is designed to awaken critical consciousness.

Chapter 4 depicts the actual opposite of the dialogical system

And its terrible development to this day. A synthesis of cultural invasions and conquests to this day is made, which beautifully highlights the strategies of manipulation utilized to keep 99% of the people enslaved and oppressed.

Just like Shi Zu Freddie Lee did, I highly encourage anyone to read this book and learn more about Paulo Freire, who has proven to be one of the freshest thinkers of our contemporary time.

Interview excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFWjnkFypFA

“Young people have the right to express the way they do and it is beautiful. But they have to learn the dominant way of speaking, the cultivated one. In order to fight injustices, one must be able to speak both languages: the one of the oppressors and the one of the oppressed” – Paulo Freire.


Todai Ling

Experimentation With Cat Stance Movement

About a week or so ago, on the FMK YouTube channel, Sifu Freddie put up a short but interesting clip where he talked about the difference between being a creator/artist versus a collector. This presents a very important challenge, as most 'martial artists' I know (myself included) tend to be students of one or more systems, and are working at learning or mastering the curriculum of these systems... not so much at developing their own thing. But then, where is the 'artistry' in it? I think, for the most part, I have been a collector - of systems knowledge, of techniques, of exercises, of drills, of mannerisms, of forms, etc. And in a way, that's pretty much how you have to start off. Just like a budding musician might learn her instrument by practicing other people's songs. But will she ever come up with her own? That's the difference. And to date, as far as martial arts go, decades in, I still just try to learn other people's songs. So I'm wanting now to accept Freddie's challenge, and start working on some of my own creations, using the various tools and skills I've collected. And I'm sure it'll be difficult, but fun

Last night, I had the intention to set off toward addressing this challenge first thing in the morning. But then dawn rolled around and I found myself lacking some energy. I went out and skipped rope, ran, stretched. Picked me up a bit, but also wore me down some in other ways. Then I was looking at these two trees, very close together, and wondering what I could do with them. You'll see in the beginning of my attached video some inverted push-ups with them. Then I take my body off the ground completely and go horizontal, using a third tree, and play around with some movement between them. Finally (and this part I did not include, because it didn't work out), I attempted the inversion off the ground as well... So much for Amazing Feats Of The Body, Part I

Next, I put on my bag gloves and relaxedly did some work with the trees. This went on for quite a while, and I've just included the opening first third or so of it here. At some point, while doing this, I began playing with the cat stance, moving around a particular tree, and then kind of got a little pattern going. I probably practiced various renditions of this pattern twenty minutes to a half hour, slowly, and never entirely happy with the distancing and feel of everything. I've tacked the last bit of this onto the end of my video, and so concluded my morning experimentation. Nothing entirely amazing or successful, BUT I am attracted to the challenge Sifu Freddie has set, and intend to pursue it at length for all of the future

Todai Ling CLF & TKD Progress

Ling,

Keep up the good work in your training.  It is a good idea to practice & follow the best that you can on demonstration videos of which you feel comfortable with, when you receive the lessons, things will then be refined & then from there, you should have less corrections that need to be made & my feedback at that time will be of the greatest benefit.  If you can get that sparring video up, it will be nice to see, if not, it’s ok.  Most people are reluctant to allow sparring videos to go public, which is understandable.   I’m very glad to see that you are putting your efforts in reading material relevant to the Martial Arts, all I can say is keep up the good work.  Osho is amazing.  We are very glad to have you on board, I feel you have much positivity to contribute to this kwoon.  The meaning of “Ling” fits you very well, it is a good choice.

Sidai Kong Introduction

Thank you for participating in the intro. video to allow Todai's to get to know you a little.

ZEN FITNESS @ THE LAKE

 

Zen Fitness Training! By Sifu Freddie Lee
Every Sunday from 10am-11am
Location: Rogers Park Beach
7700 N. East Lake Terrace
(Rogers Ave @ Lake)

 

Hey 49th Ward.
Help keep the community healthy and happy, by exercising
on our beautiful lakefront at Rogers Beach Park .
We will cover, stretching, cardio, strength training, and meditation.
ITS FREE TO THE PUBLIC! 
You have no excuses to get in shape.

Classes will continue every Sunday though the summer.

*Donations accepted*

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The Husband With No Rhythm

For this morning’s round at the park, I was joined by my wife, Adrienne. She prepared at home while I was doing my calisthenics stuff (leg day), and then came out to meet me for stretching, basics, drills, and kata practice. All is easy and relaxed when she joins me, nothing too serious, good fun. In the following videos, she scolds me repeatedly for mucking up the rhythm in one of our drills, though I think we’re far enough away from the camera that what we’re saying can’t be entirely overheard (too bad)… 

The second video is a run through some goju kata

HEY GUYS MY  NAME IN LIGHTS!

MY THOUGHTS:

I'LL GET BETTER IF I DON'T  DIE FROM THE BURN OUTS.

INTRODUCTION TO
ROTOR CUFF INITIATED ARM EXTENDING MOVEMENT
[ANATOMICALLY SPEAKING MEDICAL SCIENCE HAS EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED
OVER AND OVER THAT THIS ARM POSITION IS THE FAR STRONGER AND
DOES NOT  ALTER THE NATURAL POSITION FOR WITHSTANDING GENERATED AND
PLACED UPON IT STRESS-OR TORQUE FORCES:
FROM SHOULDER TO WRISTS.

LOOK, READ, AND PREPONDER.............

LOVE YOUR TOOLS MORE THAN THE COMMON CHOICE OF

EXCLUSIVE LEARNING AND CONDITIONED PREFERENCE.

ENLARGED WORDING:

IN THE LEAST WORDS WITH VISUAL ILLUSTRATION……ACCORDING TO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE PERTINENT SCIENCES BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF EXCLUSIVE LEARNING AND CONDITIONING, THE BONE STRUCTURE OF THE ARM IS AT IT’S STRONGEST WHEN KEPT AT THE SUPINATION POSITION AND THE WEAKEST AT THE PRONATION. 
ESTABLISHED, CONFIRMED, AND CASE CLOSED.

ANY DEBATE OR PHYSICAL EXPRESSION TO THE CONTRARY WILL EVENTUALLY AND DEPENDING ON UNPRECEDENTED FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO PENDING INJURY…………RESULT. 
THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

AS THE OLD SAYING GOES- THE FOOL SEES DANGER AHEAD AND
DOES NOT AVOID IT

PART 1 NEXT

HERE IT IS:

2-ANOTHER

3-MORE     

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THE SLOW PACED SHADOW BOXING IS IN THE HOPE THAT

YOU CAN SEE THE ROTARY MOTION OF THE SHOULDER MUSCLES AND

THAT THEY DO EXTEND THE ARM MORE ECONOMICALLY THAN THE ACCUSTOMED

MANNER IN WHICH WE ARE FIRST TAUGHT TO DO SO.

LOOK AND NOTICE THROUGH EMPHATIC OBSERVATION.

IT'S ABOUT THE ROTARY MUSCLE'S FUNCTION MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE

YOU MIGHT THINK WHILE WATCHING.

THIS FOLLOWING ONE IS ROTOR CUFF PUNCHING MOVEMENT FOLLOWED BY
SHADOW BOXING ARM MOVEMENT PUNCHING:

Before the Intellectual food ....earlier I said, I'm going to continue punching until I knock over the free standing bag...it didn't happen......it broke in half....so here I am hitting it after I patched it up to hold together:

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 INTELLECTUAL FOOD :

Ever notice how effective, cool looking and in control the training looks when performing movement

in contrast to when it is time to fight for your life? their movements suddenly look like crap.

There ought not be any difference whatsoever.

Under pressure while in combat for survival you ought look

the same cool looking and effective as when there is no pressure in practice;

two different animals!

PENDING