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The Way of One Principle: May 2014
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Friday, May 23, 2014. DID YOU EVER WONDER? His empty-hand sets weren't much better. They featured the usual variety of punches, strikes, and kicks, including roundhouse kicks, side snap kicks, and.HOLD ON! The roundhouse kick, as we know it, didn't exist until the 1950's! When the foot pads came along, competitors saw that they could point their toes and make contact with the tip of the pad to score ...
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The Way of One Principle: February 2015
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Thursday, February 5, 2015. THE ANALOGY OF THE CHAIN. If you swing it around it has tremendous potential energy but if it doesn't hit anything, it's harmless. The potential energy is never released in the form of kinetic energy. Actually, it is still quite soft; it isn't stiffened at all. until it meets resistance; i.e., the target. Isn't martial art technique the same? Well, DO YOU? If you do, you'r...
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The Way of One Principle: March 2015
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Monday, March 23, 2015. Remember way back when you were about to break your very first board? Do you recall your teacher's instructions? I imagine he said like, “Aim for the center and try to hit something BEHIND THE BOARD! 8221; Essentially, he told you to put your mind on something behind the board.and your fist passed through it without much difficulty, right? You must focus your mind on succeedin...
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The Way of One Principle: LEARNING TO READ
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Frankly, there's so much to be learned from the traditional forms that I wasn't sure how to begin! Instead, I presented instructions on how to break down forms (from virtually any system) and then left it to the reader to do the work himself. Apparently, he wasn't up to the task. Mastering a single form is a lifetime achievement. For those who want to learn more about ...
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The Way of One Principle: WHY VITAL POINTS?
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Friday, April 3, 2015. Moreover, some of the old forms (kata) – just SOME of them, not ALL of them - have odd movements that indicate WHERE (on which vital point) a particular technique(s) should be focused! Yes, they're that important. Now, there are those “combat experts” who argue that striking small points under high-stress conditions such as a life and death struggle is next to impos...Surely, i...
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The Way of One Principle: BOARDS DON'T HIT BACK...?
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. BOARDS DON'T HIT BACK? If you fail to make a particular break, it's because:. Your technique is flawed one way or another. You failed to extend your yi properly, or. Your spirit is weak. Of course, the same happened with freestyle sparring and the demonstrations of forms. Posted by Phillip Starr. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mon and Tues, 11:30am-12:30pm. View my ...
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The Way of One Principle: August 2014
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Sunday, August 24, 2014. BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS! Over the decades that I've been involved in teaching martial arts and qigong, I've come to better understand the importance of the words we use and how they impact a student's performance as well as our own. This is something that most teachers (and students, for that matter) rarely consider but I think it's really very important. As he talked to t...
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The Way of One Principle: May 2015
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Saturday, May 9, 2015. THE MARTIAL ARTIST AND THE GUNSLINGER. None of them would think twice when it came to killing an enemy. Were you to face one of them with a “Peacemaker” strapped to your hip, you'd be looking death in the face. And if you flinched, even for an instant, you were dead. And herein lies the lesson. If you balk, you've already lost the battle. The question, however, is, could you?
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The Way of One Principle: THE MARTIAL ARTIST AND THE GUNSLINGER
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Saturday, May 9, 2015. THE MARTIAL ARTIST AND THE GUNSLINGER. None of them would think twice when it came to killing an enemy. Were you to face one of them with a “Peacemaker” strapped to your hip, you'd be looking death in the face. And if you flinched, even for an instant, you were dead. And herein lies the lesson. If you balk, you've already lost the battle. The question, however, is, could you?
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The Way of One Principle: A WORD FROM WATTS
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The Way of One Principle. Thoughts and lectures about the spiritual side of the traditional martial arts. Monday, December 1, 2014. A WORD FROM WATTS. For those may not have heard of him,. 6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a. As we discussed martial arts he said, “Any physical activity taken to its extreme, becomes s spiritual path and leads to awakening.” I asked what he meant by, “extreme? 8220; Even something like.tennis? 8221; I asked. Is such a thing even possible? I would have to answer, ̶...
