Johnny Cash's Advice For Fixing The Martial Arts Systems One Piece At A Time

Johnny Cash's Advice For Fixing The Martial Arts Systems One Piece At A Time

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Didn't know that Johnny Cash could fix Martial Arts systems, did you? Well, actually, his advice is for fixing cars, sort of, but it translates directly to the fighting disciplines. And it is sound advice indeed.

Johnny sang a song almost forty years ago called 'One Piece at a Time.' In the lyrics he has a factory worker, who will never be able to buy a Cadillac, sneak one off the assembly line 'one piece at a time.' Unfortunately, the bits of auto were smuggled out over a 20 year time span, and the assembled vehicle was quite the mess.

1958 hub caps over 1967 tires. 1959 tail lights with a 1973 rear end. The thing was a mess beyond proportion and manufactured by rediculosity, and that brings us to the martial arts.

That grip twist flip throw you learned in Taekwondo, it's actually a Japanese trick built for Samurais. That pressure point for bringing 'em to the ground, it's actually taught better in Tai Chi Chuan systems because...uh, well, because. And that slick punch combo you just learned at Shotokan freestyle class, it looked better in Ed Parker Chinese Kenpo Karate.

You see, every system in existence, all of them, are cobbled together out of the bits and pieces of different countries, different religions, different mindsets. The forms and patterns are really frankenstein miscalculations. The techniques are a hodge podge put together out of whatever came to hand.

Look, I'm not speaking ill of the beast, on the contrary, I think that people did the best they could. Unfortunately, no matter how sterling the core concepts in one's art, they are a casting of many metals, prone to come apart at the worst time. And the real concepts have been hidden, transfigured, melded to fit another concept, and the true martial art is not in evidence.

People, you see, for millennium, have assembled tricks into arts, and this jury rig of art has confused and made obscure the real truths of the combative disciplines. Consider what has happened, for thousands of years people have made art, driven a vehicle, as it were, and not once has anybody ever stopped and tried to take it all apart, shine the pieces up, and put them back together in the right sequence. And there is a right method; there is a true art.

The true art is defined by physics, but not a normal physics, a physics that is pertinent to bodies, combat, and the falling of an apple out of a tree. A physics that is not obvious for the simple reason of being too close to the eyeballs. At any rate, if one could succeed in Fixing the various Martial Arts Systems they would end up with faster reaction times (no reaction times), because all the data would be logical and more easily accessed, and systems that could be taught much, much, much faster.

About the Author:
Al Case is the only person on earth that actually fixes Martial Arts styles. Head over to his website, Monster Martial Arts, and pick up an totally free ebook.



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