Baguazhang Kung Fu Energy Flux...creating The Proper Alignment By: Al Case | - Baguazhang Kung Fu is one of those fantastic martial arts that titillates the imagination. One comes across amazing stories of what the old Baguazhang masters could do, and they want to be that good, too. The sad truth, however, is that most Baguazhang schools are not training their students in the proper way.
Mind you, you will still manifest astounding abilities, but it will take a long time, and it shouldn't. Fix one little item, you see, and that exotic martial art becomes quick ... Tags:ba gua zhang, bagua zhang, baguazhang, kung fu, gung fu
Seven Bizarre Reasons To Learn Kung Fu In This Nutty World! By: Al Case | - If it was your decision not to learn kung fu, or some other martial art...too sweaty, too hard...maybe you should reconsider. Society is flipping out, and I mean in our own safe, little cities. Here are seven instances of people who have gone over to the dark side, and they are the total argument for learning self defense.
Two girls didn't like the way some fry cook was taking their McNuggets order at their McDonalds restaurant, so they jumped over the counter and went after him. He ... Tags:karate, kung fu, tai chi chuan, pa kua chang, tong long, hung gar
Bagua Kung Fu Training And Building A Martial Arts Temple By: Al Case | - Bagua Kung Fu training began for me four decades ago. I was involved in Chinese Kenpo Karate, fascinated by martial arts, and I found this little martial arts book, and...four decades later I still walk in circles. Circles, of course, are the secret of good bagua.
You walk in circles you circle your turns your arms rotate you...breath. It really is the simplest art I know, yet one of the most complex, and one of the most difficult. And, it has the most glorious and observable benefi ... Tags:bagua, baguazhang, pa kua, pa kua chang, kung fu
Movie Review: Shaolin Fact Vs.fiction By: Debbie Bontam | - This past weekend break at the Chinese Shao-Lin Center in L . A . we'd a visit from Elder Master David Soard. Sifus and pupils from other schools including San Francisco, Tuscon, Phoenix Arizona and also Albuquerque came into town to participate within the festivities. On finishing of the Lower as well as Brown belt advancement tests Elder Master David led pupils in a day long instruction of the colourful 8 Animal Pa Kua. Later in the day a number of us all went out to get a vegan meal from Foll ... Tags:kung fu, martial arts, shaolin, seminars, David Soard
Yang Tai Chi Chuan And The Five Rules Of Making An Energy Body By: Al Case | - Tai Chi Chuan constructs a different body that is called an energy body. This is true for Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Chen Tai Chi Chuan, or whatever type of internal art you study. This is assuming you are following a set of rules having to do with the energy anatomy.
First, of course, one must sink the body weight. But, really, it is not just sinking; you must close your eyes and course your awareness down through the feet. This will enable you to connect a tractor beam to the planet.
The Real Shaolin History The Shaolin Masters Can't Tell You! By: Al Case | - The real Shaolin History is one of those animals that's been pretty fouled up. One reason for this is that the communist state controls all history, and rewrites it to suit themselves. Another reason is that the current history comes from the oral tradition, and therefore is quite open to mythicizing.
The real history starts with Bodhidharma traveling to China to see the emperor. This tends to enhance Bodhidharma at the expense of the emperor, and it should not be that way. The empe ... Tags:shaolin, wing chun, preying mantis, pa kua chang, tai chi chuan
Martial Arts Science Revealed By Five Elements By: Al Case | - That there is a martial arts science is a fact which none can dispute, the sad news is that people hold to art, and refuse the science in their thinking. This science, however, lives and breathes in the fighting disciplines and is described in many of the books, strategies and philosophies of the arts. In this piece of writing we will discuss the distinct progression of arts that will reveal this science.
Learning All The Martial Arts...and A Lot More! By: Al Case | - Let me pose question. Why can a young child run under a table and not have to grunt and groan? There is a reason for his agility, you know, and this reason infects the martial arts...and all of life.
Go on, try running under a table yourself...grin. Find some low hanging branches that are as head bumping to you as a table is to a child. Run under them without groaning from the weight on your knees and your back and all your other body parts.
How Long Does It Take To Become A Martial Arts Master? By: Al Case | - How long does it take to become a martial arts Master? What an interesting question. There is a simple answer, and it will apply to any art you study, be it taekwondo, aikido, tai chi chuan, or whatever.
To get to this simple answer, however, you have to consider a couple of things. Really, you have to toss out the misconceptions people have about the fighting disciplines. If you can get rid of the garbage, the answer is quite easily arrived at.
Five Martial Arts Calisthenics To Make You Five Times More Stronger, Faster And Powerful! By: Al Case | - I was talking with a fellow the other day, and we were thinking about condensing body calisthenics into maybe a half dozen exercises. Think about it, five martial arts exercises that increase your strength, make you faster and more powerful. All you do is these five exercises, and that's all you need.
So I researched a bunch of things having to do with Yoga, Tibetian exercises and even American things like Matt Furey. Here's my initial work up on five exercises, and while I will pr ... Tags:kung fu, karate, hung gar, choy Lee Fut, pa kua chang, tai chi
Four Significant Masters Who Founded Tai Chi Chuan By: Al Case | - The Lineage of the various Tai Chi Chuan systems is sometime murky, sometimes easily traced. What is of high interest, however, is the way Tai Chi Chuan is modified by each generation. One would think that the principles rule, and nothing should ever change, but change is the only constant in this universe.
Mythically, Tai Chi Chuan was invented by a Zhang Sanfeng in the twelfth century. This is probably not true, as history does not support his existence in connection with Tai Chi. ... Tags:tai chi chuan power, tai chi chuan chi power, chi power
The Ordered Development Of Chi Energy In The Martial Arts By: Al Case | - If you think the martial arts are about hitting people, you have the wrong idea. They are about discovering the truth that resides within you, they are about sculpting the energy of your body, they are about exploring your true potential as a human being. This bit of writing is a simple construction of how chi energy builds through the Martial Arts.
Using Three Martial Arts Concepts To Survive A Mob Attack! By: Al Case | - I watch the idiot box, and it is plain that these mobsters in Libya and Egypt and places like that don't know any martial arts techniques. I mean, I don't expect to see tournament fighting, or an MMA takedown, but I don't see much of anything!
I don't see a fake move and quick step to the side. I don't see a block and strike...followed by a run in another direction. I don't even see a roll or break fall when some poor fool is thrown down on the street!
The World Of Five Incredibly Deadly Kung Fu Styles By: Al Case | - I love Kung Fu Movies, so a title like Five Incredibly Deadly Kung Fu Styles is most excellent. When you speak of these arts, however, you aren't just discussing cinema. You are delving into incredibly potent regimens that are the most dangerous martial arts on the planet.
These are specific body disciplines which steel the body and make sharp the mind. People who engage in these arts have gone beyond the flesh, and are describing a world towards which mankind hurries with appreciat ... Tags:Pa kua chang, tai chi chuan, pa kua chang weapon, kenpo
Seven Deadly Martial Arts Weapons...one Article Of Clothing By: Al Case | - You are walking down the street when a dozen Arabs on Choppers begin to ride around you. They were trained in special Spetznatz ninja techniques by the CIA, what you gonna do? Fortunately, you are prepared, you are wearing pants, and they are held up by that most deadly of all martial arts weapons...the dreaded belt!
Now, you think I am having a laugh, but I am not. You are about to get a tutorial in, uh, belt fu. Or Belt-kido, or something like that.
Five Varieties Of Energy One Learns In Martial Arts Flow Theory By: Al Case | - Martial Arts Flow Theory, what I call Flux theory, is prevalent throughout all the arts. The problem is that most people don't understand how these theories come together, and when they oppose. One must understand each type of energy and how they fit together if one is to be a complete martial artist.
One thing to remember, as we go through the theories, is that there is a hard and a soft to everything. Sometimes hard and soft is merely a distinction of direction, which is to say on ... Tags:martial arts flow, chi flow, chi power, ki flow, ki power
The Difference Between Kung Fu And Karate By: Al Case | - It's a strange thing that we would think in terms of differences when we consider and compare Kung Fu and Karate, for there are a lot of similarities. They are both martial disciplines, after all, and karate is actually grown from kung fu. To really see the differences, however, one needs to look at the arts as a complete picture, and determine exactly how they evolved.
Build And Use Martial Arts Chi Power Through The Circular Flux Of Energy By: Al Case | - I keep forgetting the fact, when I talk about Martial Arts Chi Power and such things, that I am in one room, and everybody else is in another room. I just wrote a piece on the liberation of energy through circular flux, and my emails and requests for the free matrixing ebook went through the roof. This is one of those things...'You mean people don't know that?"
How Instructors Can Improve Their Martial Arts Abilities! By: Al Case | - One of the most shocking things in the martial arts is how instructors stop their own training. By this I mean, after a somebody opens up his own school, they never get any more instruction for themselves. The idea that they hold to is that they know everything, and all they have to do now is polish it, perfect it, and time will be their teacher.
This concept, of course, is ridiculous. Yes, time will make a person better, but what will improve a person faster is getting more data. I ... Tags:tai chi chuan, pa kua chang, hsing i, wudan, shaolin, chi
Combining Martial Arts Like Wing Chun And Aikido By: Al Case | - Most martial arts don't fit together easily. You take the circular hands of Chinese kenpo Karate and try to put them atop the linear stances of Japanese shotokan, and you are going to get an uncoordinated mish mash. Or, the quick and slick jabs of boxing might fit with wing chun, but the round house power punches don't fit at all.
And, of course, there are arts that do fit together. You can put aikido together with pa kua chang, but it is going to take discipline and logic to catego ... Tags:bruce lee techniques, wudan throws, sticky hand techniques
The Natural Progression From Hard To Soft By: Al Case | - The concepts of yang to yin, hard to soft, Shaolin to Wudan, striking to grappling have been with us a long time. Many people have compared the argument to the yin yang turning over and over. In the end, however, there is no contest between the two principles, merely a progression, an evolution if you will, of art within individual.
A child starts out with karate style hard arts. Heads out to the trophy windowed store and has fantastic contest with the other kids. Generalknowledge i ... Tags:wudan, wudang, soft arts, hard arts, karate master, shotokan
The Secret Of How Real Internal Energy Works! By: Al Case | - One of the biggest mysteries of the martial arts is internal energy. Wudan arts, like Tai Chi Chuan and Pa Kua Chang and Hsing i claim it. Supposedly it takes lifetimes to build, but when you get it you can defeat attackers with just a sigh and a brush of the palm.
Well, the truth of the matter is that internal energy is in many arts, and if it is not, it can be put into any art easily. The principles of internal energy, you see, are easy to understand. So if you study kenpo or tae ... Tags:karate kung fu, aikido, tai chi chuan, pa kua chang, wudan
The Secret Of The Three Essentials Necessary To The Martial Arts By: Al Case | - In the martial arts, I don't care if it is mma, Pa Kua Chang, Shotokan, or whatever, there are three key ingredients. These three ingredients are what makes an art an art, and they are why people study the arts. Oddly, one of the ingredients is almost totally ignored.
One of the ingredients is the pursuit of strength. Muscle mags are filled with strength advertisements, and everybody obsesses on strength. Oddly, strength is the least important of the three essential techniques of th ... Tags:martial arts instruction, kang duk won, tae kwon do, kung fu
The Truth About Three Depths Of Striking In The Martial Arts! By: Al Case | - Old guy knocks a young guy on his fanny! Thatll make a headline, eh? So what bit of martial knowledge did the old guy know that would enable him to take out a young guy so easy squeezy?
The old guy, having studied the martial arts for a number of years, knew how to deliver a bit of intention into his fist. And, if you knew the things that he knew...then you would have that same type of ability. The secret to what the old guy knew I have described in this article, so read it with ... Tags:Okinawan Karate, combat training, dim mak, break board
Butterfly Pa Kua Chang In Three Easy Steps! By: Al Case | - The first thing you are going to have to overcome is the idea that it takes decades to learn such arts as Tai Chi Chuan or Pa Kua Chang or Aikido. Look, the army makes soldiers in three months, and that includes some high tech stuff. And, when you add up the actual hours spent on that college course, it doesn't take that long to make a scientist or mathematician.
Three Steps To The Most Powerful Punch On Earth! By: Al Case | - I don't care if you study Uechi ryu or shotokan or kenpo, or whatever, you're going to need a powerful fist. I don't care if it is boxing or Krav maga or tae kwon do, you're going to need a fist that knocks them down the first time! Even if you're in Aikido or Tai Chi, you're going to need some kind of real power, or at least know what power is so you can properly handle it.
The Golden And Infinite Truth About Tai Chi Chuan By: Al Case | - The absolute truth of the martial art known as Tai Chi Chuan is easily seen in a symbol that nobody understands. If you read to the end of my words here you will understand that symbol, and it will enlighten your practice of the martial arts. I am speaking of that symbol of the grand terminus which we call yin yang.
The Yin Yang symbol is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...poppycock. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but truncated observ ... Tags:tai chi chuan, pa kua chang, hsing i, wudan, shaolin, chi
The Circles Of The Pa Kua Universe By: Al Case | - When one walks the circle in the martial art of Pa Kua Chang one is creating one's own universe. This is a universe that is silent and solitary, and yet filled with wondrous beauty. The reason for for this magnificence is to be found in one geometrical figure--the circle.
There are circles within circles, as one walks the circle, and these circles continue on into infinity. The circles just keep wrapping upon themselves until the martial artist is transported into fantastic realms ... Tags:martial arts instruction, martial arts class, self defense
