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Changes Are A foot
Jan 12, 202200:03:06Tap to summarizeThe Martial Arts and Life has moved. You can locate it at >> https://www.patreon.com/Kriswilder or clicking on the log below https://www.patreon.com/Kriswilder The post Changes Are A foot appeared first on Stickman Publications, Martial Arts Podcast.
Transcribe →The Four Forms of Karate – Chapter 1
Jan 5, 202200:24:34Tap to summarizeThe Four Forms of Karate – Chapter 1. There are four forms of karate and this is not about the styles this is about the qualities that all systems process. This is the first of four types explained in this podcast. The first of these is Blockbuster. Zeal and trends make up the elements needed to make a Blockbuster. Zeal and trends are layering over the top of a pyramid based on three other elements; Fad, Presentism, and Trends. Four Forms of Karate and 3 Elements Karate Fads and More Karate Fads Fads in karate and fads as a general rule have a fast burn rate. That burn rate in their nature. But there is a use of the word Fad that needs guarding against. The last thing you should desire in a conversation is a casual and dismissive shutdown. Presentism The middle place has a role in karate. That middle is flexible. Larger than a fad Presentism can be condescending in its attitude. like comic book artist, Howard Chaykin referred to his industry. More on Chaykin in the podcast. Presentism can also be stable, and beneficial. Trends Comparing the 1861 Gatling gun to the flying gun called the A-10 Warthog. Those two seem to have nothing to do with martial arts yet it is an excellent example of a trend. <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="614" src="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/gATLING-1024x614.jpg" alt="" data-id="3834" data-full-url="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/gATLING.jpg" data-link="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/?attachment_id=3834" class="wp-image-3834" srcset="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/gATLING-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/gATLING-300x180.jpg 300w...
Transcribe →Be Your Own Karate Author
Dec 29, 202100:19:59Tap to summarizeBe your own karate author. It is not about writing a martial arts book. This is about the authoring of your life. Taking control of your life, not your world, but focusing on your life. Be Your Own Karate Author Be Your Own Karate Author With Simple Commands Using simple commands, you can make a difference in your world. We have touched on, If this then that, (IFTTT) in the past. Simple commands. Simple commands are the best commands. The Claymore, not the sword, but the ball-bearing loaded explosive mine has a simple command on it, “Front Toward Enemy.” Getting that wrong and the incorrect people are wounded or killed. Martial Arts has simple commands, and it is also a beggar. Martial arts ask for you to invest in it and it gives you nothing tangible in return. Oh, sure a belt, some paper certificates but it is not a house or a boat. Traditional Environment in Which to Learn The martial arts have a framework of simple commands for success. Paying attention, be diligent, working on what you are taught are the keys. There may be more or different expressions but these three go a long way. These three are going the distance in applying oneself to the course that is set before you. This is a selection of a container. A traditional environment in which to learn, that is a vessel that gets filled with techniques and behaviors. This is the beginning of, be your own karate author. Beggars have nothing to give Another way to look at this situation is like that of a poker game. Martial arts, karate is only g...
Transcribe →Karate this is the Reason
Dec 22, 202100:20:58Tap to summarizeKarate this is the Reason. We all understand there are many reasons for doing karate. Those reasons are personal and varied. The reasons range from, “I want to get in shape,” to “I want to learn to protect myself.” We are going to create a narrow focus. We are discussing a small but important idea. The reason for training, and we are going to use a dead Prussian General to do so. We are going to create a narrow focus. We are discussing a small but important idea. The reason for training, and we are going to use a dead Prussian General to do so. Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz Clausewitz wrote a book called, On War, or Vom Kriege. The book is a classic when it comes to war. His book and the ideas contained wherein are often quoted. Here are a few to prime the pump. Karate is the Reason and Few Points to Add to The Fact “The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.” That sounds like a modern business saying, “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good.” Or, “No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy.” And a favorite, “Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.” That sounds like every coach that ever coached. “Don’t give up.” In the simplest of terms validation of ideas that have other independent validation are likely pretty solid in their standing. The narrow focus we have for our purposes is the classic, “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="614" src="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/Narrow-1024x614.jpg" alt="The Narrow Focus Brings Clarity To Your Karate" class="wp-image-3823" srcset="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/Narrow-1024x614.jpg 10...
Transcribe →Karate and Tai Chi, Sleek and Stunning
Dec 15, 202100:20:03Tap to summarizeKarate and Tai Chi, Sleek and Stunning. The stick and the hammer of karate were the topics of the Patreon post. And it started a brief conversation about a trip hammer and its role in martial arts. A trip hammer is a tool, used by a Blacksmith to create a repetitive motion. This hammer is used in pounding hot metal or iron during the shaping process. A trip hammer is thoughtless. The trip hammer motion takes little understanding it is clear. Often a trip hammer is built around circular motions becoming a linear act. A blacksmith hand forging To see what a tip hammer looks like in use and watch the motions involved, here is a link to a Youtube video. Watch a blacksmith forging using a trip hammer. Finding The Trip Hammer in Tai Chi It can be difficult to find the martial arts trip hammer. It is especially difficult in a softer system as it is not conducive to such observation. One way of seeing karate and tai chi is digital versus analog. Analog verses Digital You could look at the WUKO kata championships and see the stop and start of techniques. No such form of competitions are known about Tai Chi. The moment the trip hammer starting and finishing is easy to see in karate. These motions are not easily seen in some other arts when comparing them to karate. Both forms of martial arts are sleek and stunning. Ye...
Transcribe →Your Karate Teacher Died, Now What?
Dec 8, 202100:14:32Tap to summarizeYour karate teacher died, now what? That sounds caviler kind of a cast-off statement. It is almost as if it is a statement about floor wax from a mid-afternoon television show. It is not is the real question. The death of a teacher has happened to me before but this one gut punched me. The sorting of how this needs ordering. The responses both short term and long-term need addressing. And in doing so there may be a handle for you got to grab onto for the future. Or the handles allowing you to reach back into the past and secure a grip on an experience or emotion. We are all going to die, but we just don’t believe it. Growing up in post-war Japan in the Shinjuku district life was hard. He told me stories of hunger and hardship. These stories came infrequently, yet helped explain his worldview. Your Karate Teacher Died, Now What? A Priest and Burial. Graveyards are full of the greatest people I have buried the greatest father a hundred times. And we have likely buried the greatest karate sensei a hundred times. The result of this emotion is to try and acknowledge the impact the sensei has had, a foundation may be created, an award given out on an annual basis. You may use this when you karate teacher dies, or when another person passes. I have done this and it has been with little results. People are focusing on living. Getting results for themselves, and not a plaque on a wall. A plaque about somebody else’s journey. Or the of overcoming the obstacles placed before them in life. Teaching Good, or Bad There is either good karate or bad karate, that is it. </figur...
Transcribe →Your Two Truths of Karate
Dec 1, 202100:27:06Tap to summarizeYour Two Truths of Karate gets pushed into the second half of the show. A little deviation from the main topic. The problems of vendors and the world we have right now. The pleasant and the can-do people of the world are facing a deep challenge and we need to take a step back and allow these folks some slack. A New Form of Measuring Time A 21-minute wait turns into four loads of laundry. Is it the folks who are manning the phones responsible? No, people are losing their minds. The folks on the front lines are doing their best to do their jobs in difficult circumstances. These situations are no fault of the folks on the front lines. Be patient and do your laundry. Your Two Truths of Karate The two worlds are the worlds of science and the other is the world of the symbol. One believes itself to be true, right, and correct. That true right and correct is science. Symbols lean into the deeper look. You can go so far are to transpose the ideas of each of these viewpoints and the statements will read just as valid. Science leans into the deeper look. Symbols are about what is correct. Measuring of Two Worlds We Can Hold Those Ideas Both of us can hold those ideas in our minds at the same time. We can do so even when each position, that of science and that of symbol are trying to dismiss each other. The old joke is that in the war between cats and dogs, dogs must not only win but cats must lose. When we all know, or have households where both co-exist. <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="614" src="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/w...
Transcribe →Making Your Karate Like a Kid
Nov 24, 202100:18:47Tap to summarizeMaking your karate like a kid is something to pursue. Not every attributive of being a kid but a specific item. While working with a student the other night the topic of rigidity raised its head once again. I inherited a brown belt from another school. She trains in the same style but a different expression, a different organization. We stopped in the middle of the flow drill and proclaimed, “I’m pretty stiff, ridged.” It wasn’t an observation of the moment but a declaration of herself who she is. I rejected that proclamation. Not in a harsh manner, but in an observational way. “No, you learned to be ridged, you weren’t born ridged.” Let’s try making your karate like a kid. Kids Move Smoothly Ridged Has its Place The drill is a flow drill. There are many versions of a flow drill, but the two categories are free to flow and prescribed flow. We were working a free flow. Free flow is extemporaneous and creative. The prescribed flow is a structured pattern of flow. Smooth and Flow Flowing with smoothness has an advantage. Smooth and flow is a combination of these two items. This combination makes it harder for a person to see what you are doing it. Flow helps avoid giving your opponent data points. Think of it as looking at a graph in a presentation. We are always looking for the high, the low, the significant. The data point is usually the highest item on the graph or the lowest. Trends of course are observed. But trends are secondary we want to see the unusual, the peaks and valleys. Smooth Can Increase Results The Smoot...
Transcribe →Merit is Superior and The Romans Agree
Nov 17, 202100:21:26Tap to summarizeMerit is superior and the Romans agree. Taking a walk down the road of history. History is often about perspective, the view used to examine the snapshot of time. The observing is often set with a predisposition of a desired outcome. Knowing that lets us dive into several historical examples of how merit is superior to credentials. The 80/20 rule or the Pareto Distribution is a good rule of thumb. Swirl in a big mix of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the world of merit begins to rise above credentialing. Simply put 20% of the people in the world are striving for growth regardless of the environment. Romans and Merit Titus Flavius Vespasianus Let’s look at Roman rulers, Vespasian, the father of the Titus and Marcus Aurelius, and his son Commodus. Looking for a fun movie with Marcus Aurelius, albeit a small role, Gladiator is your choice. You will also get a good dose of the insanity that was the megalomaniac Commodus. Gladiator, The Movie The Movie Gladiator We all remember seeing the movies where the protagonist gets a calling out with the statement, “You’ve changed, man.” The secret to this is the promotion of the environment. They know inside the new environment is allowing them to act the way they have always desired to act. The environment didn’t change them, they are who they are. This is an internal example of the title, Merit is superior and the romans agree. <figure class="w...
Transcribe →Musashi Has Thoughts About Your Karate
Nov 10, 202100:20:25Tap to summarizeMusashi has thoughts about your karate. Miyamoto Musashi dies in 1645 but he wrote some precepts (The Dokkodo) and a book, the Book of Five Rings, (Go Rin No Sho). Miyamoto Musashi I like you have come across copies of the Book of Five Rings. We have read it front to back and dipped into different chapters over the years. One book and one stanza have stood out to me for thirty-some years. Musashi and The Water Book An idea presented in the Water Book applies to the world of karate we have not. We have a world of karate dominated by entanglement. Entanglement is a bad thing and engaging in to is to be avoided. And you have a master telling you that. Here is the section we are addressing and the wisdom contained in the writing. The Water Book To Apply Stickiness. When the enemy attacks and you also attack with the long sword, you should go in with a sticky feeling and fix your long sword against the enemy’s as you receive his cut. The spirit of stickiness is not hitting very strongly, but hitting so that the long swords do not separate easily. It is best to approach as calmly as possible when hitting the enemy’s long sword with stickiness. The difference between “Stickiness” and “Entanglement” is that stickiness is firm and entanglement is weak. You must appreciate this. This is a profound policy and as said, Musashi has thoughts about your karate. <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="614" src="https://www.stickmanpublications.com/wp-content/uploads/eNTANGELEMTN-1-1024x614.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-3774" srcset="https://www.stick...
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