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Self defense is one of the most important aspects of the martial arts. In fact there are many skills that you will learn from the start of your training, and many of those things will take months if not a few years too be good enough to use to protect yourself. However the beautiful thing about self defense is that it is a skill that can work right away. What is that saying, " People take to the martial arts like ducks take to the water". And another saying that says", " Self Defense is common Sense". Most traditional systems have a very extensive self defense program. One that suits many body types. For instance, are you involved in the martial arts and they teach the same self defense to every one. This is a very basic method of self defense. An extensive self defense system, teaches senior citizens what they need to know to protect themselves, which is completely different then what you would teach normal aged women and men. Again when teaching children, it is very important to have self defense which is geared towards their little bodies. Another thing to look at do you think that women are attacked the same as a man is, or a child the same as a man. If you think this, you do not know self defense very well at all, or the martial arts.
Self defense for women, and I am talking about a special women's self defense class with only women. The reason why it is best to have all women in a class by their selves is for the fellowship, and for the support they give each other. For some reason, they do not like to have men in the class with them. So with that knowledge, is it not best then to have women in thier own class. I could give you another way to look at it. For instance, Senior Citizens", they love to be in a class all their own also, and for the same reason they women want to be alone. Real women's self defense classes have techniques that are named, "Brest escape", as you can see anyone who is shy would clam up. Women are not attacked at all like men or children. You see when someone wants to attack a child, or abduct a child, they always try to lift the child up to grab them around the waist or under their arm pits and carry them off, or throw them into a car. If you teach a child what to do when this is happening to them, they have a good chance to get away. Do you think a women is going to be attacked like a man, not on your life. When a man fights or attacks another man, he will usually punch the other man in the head, and worse. You see most of the time when a women is being attacked it is going to be to rape her or steal her purse or car right in a shopping mall parking area. A man would always try to grab a women by the wrists turn and drag them anywhere they want the women to go with them. Another way a man grabs a women is by the hair, like a cave man, dragging the women into the woods just far enough into the woods as not to be seen. I hope this is enough to allow you to see the difference in self defense for different human types, because we can assure you self defense is not a game, it is not a sport and in no way is it something to leave without working on it. Make sure you train your self defense on each other, always change partners as someone tall is going to feel different then someone short, someone muscular is going to be different then someone skinny. With most students, they would only be taught what they need to know for themselves. But for someone becoming an instructor in the art, actually needs to learn every method there is. Reason here is, they have to teach the different groups and know how to teach the different groups. As people brought the martial arts to the west, and as time went by. The martial arts became less martial art and more a martial sport. As this happened, they took some of the most advanced kicks, punching techniques and blocks and threw them out too, why?.
The instructor threw these techniques out, because he could not do them himself. This is ludicrous and should never have been able to happen, but it does. I have seen more styles with missing flying kicks because the instructor tells his students that flying kicks would never work in the streets, so we do not have to do them. Oh My God, this is not what flying kicks were for in the first place, it is to make your legs stronger then normal people, to make your legs so strong, so flexible that you can move your legs as other people can move their hands. Like the forms in Kung Fu, as the years go by, and as it is passed on from hand to hand, all it needs is a few terrible instructors and a line of people changing the art from traditional martial arts to martial sports. Now with martial sports they can take out all of the self defense, all of the weapons, except for a few staff forms. When in fact most traditional systems have eighteen weapons if not more. Another thing is money, the martial sports are set up to make money. Because of this they also start to degrade the ranking system. Twenty years ago when going for a black belt, you were truly a black belt. And in most systems and styles it was that way. As twenty to thirty years went by, we have all heard about nine yr old black belts, talk about degrade the level that was so hard to make it through, it was not easy, it was not for everyone. Because not everyone could have a black belt test, only the students that the master said could go for the test, not just people with money. " Like the father of the Nine Year Old Child", I mean come on people is this ridiculous or what. Now think about what a black belt stands for, is it the same as thirty years ago, or is it different. Black belt was a level the first level to make it through the basics. That is all black belt means, but it is the basics that are very hard to do properly, as in flying kicks, all of the flying kicks are very hard to pull of just right. But once you start to get it, you can do it for ever more without problems. Think about that one, Nine Year Old Black Belts. So what does that mean to everyone who worked so hard to be a black belt in the past, why did we have to get beat up so bad for this test, why did we have to work so hard on our forms, self defense, weapons forms, throwing knives and sparring, all to a high degree, if not we would have failed. Testing lasted hours and hours of completely crazy tests, and all to make your body do things you never thought you could do, and when you do it, you feel so much like you could do anything you ever tackled from here on in. With the Black belt test it was as if we would die if we did not stop, what we found out was no we did not die, we gained a second wind, and opened up our Chi flow. When you have trained in your horse stance for some time and now standing in it deep for minutes a day, doing the breathing techniques your instructor teaches you to do while in the horse stance. One such method is incredible, while breathing in a deep horse stance, there will come a time when something will open up below your bladder, it is the strangest feeling, as it pops open, and after that happens it is as if you have a little sac lower then our bladder that fills with extra oxygen. The first few months after you stay in your horse stance nice and low daily, all of a sudden your legs start to shake, trembling violently, and a feeling of losing all energies. When you are told you can finally come up out of the horse stance. You stand up and your legs are still trembling, and you have this feeling of energies flowing up through your legs up your spine into the crown of your head. It is one of the strangest feelings. Sifu Fiedler said when he had this feeling after around six months of training, he asked GM Chow what it was and he told Sifu Fiedler it was his Chi Starting to awaken. But not to get to excited because if this is the beginning, there is not going to be an end. Development of Chi, takes years, actually a life time, and all on different levels of achievement take time, as time goes by, years into decades, the levels that you will pass through will be not only amazing but will allow you to see that there is much more then what you can see, all you have to do is practise, and take it serious. You come to a point where you think how can you get to a higher level and bang because you kept up your meditation techniques your Chi Kung Techniques, your body, your mind and your spirit start to work together. The electrical current that runs through you will start to flow better, stronger, and it will open up doors you will never understand if you live for a life time. That is why when a five yr student says they know it all, how can us older guys not smile at that. We were all the same, each and every one of us became so excited when we first felt our Chi flowing. As Sifu Fiedler says, he was more fortunate then most because he had a live in Kung Fu Master and could ask questions right away. Another thing that was so special was the answers that GM Chow gave to Sifu Fiedler. Sifu Fiedler was shocked at times, at others he was bewildered, all in all Sifu Fiedler said it was one of the most exciting times in his training, only six months into it and Grand Master Chow is already finding Sifu Fiedler having results, when Sifu Fiedler started the meditations, the Iron Vest and Palm training, GM Chow told him he had to do it every day until he felt like it was to little, then start doing it twice a day, once in morning, and once in Evening. GM chow also told him if he kept it up, and did not stop even one day, he would start to feel results in six months. Sifu Fiedler was more then excited when it all started exactly six months later, as the months went by, every three months there was a boost in energy, a stronger feeling, and more experience in what Sifu Fiedler was feeling. A lot of this has to do with what is called " Feeling", how ever this is not the same as feeling in the west, we feel with our hands, they can also feel with their hands, but they call it feeling something by thinking about it and feeling it inside of the body. Feeling it with your mind, not your hands, meaning to feel it internally, not externally. I hope this is a good start for most of you, if you are in a sport martial art and you love it and would not ever like to change, that is fine, however if you are a women, small man, or you want your child to learn how to protect him or her self. I say go to a special school that is open even twice a week to start, and is not teaching anything about martial sport, it might take you longer to find. What I can say is there are many styles and systems that say that they do teach self defense at a traditional level, and in reality it is a commercial level, or should I say martial sport. Or they are really a traditional school that teach everything as it was taught hundreds if not thousands of years ago. We teach the martial arts because we truly want to help people, to save their lives. To give people better lives through hard work, education, and knowledge. Thank you
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Sifu Dee
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