Chinese kung fu fans

 

There are only eight attacks.

Thousands of techniques,

but only eight attacks.

You can figure them out easy enough. 

Here’s three to start you out:

Sword catcher, club catcher,

fist catcher…

Go on,

figure the other five out.

 

The idea is that if somebody is holding a weapon,

that’s what they’ll attack with,

so your options become very predictable.

 

This thing,

of there only being eight attacks,

simplifies the martial arts incredibly.

Once people realize this they start tossing out 

everything they have learned wholesale.

Simplicity is just too sweet to be resisted.

 

Interestingly,

I figured this stuff out,

and a lot more besides,

not because I am Mr. Joe Genius.

I figured it all out because I used a dictionary

and defined all the words

that were necessary to the martial arts.

 

Energy, flow, power, ridge, stance, focus, and so on and so on.

while other people looked up words in other languages,

and became historians, of a sort,

I looked up the words in the English language,

and they made a lot more sense.

 

In fact, not to change the subject,

but I always remember the foreign

martial arts instructor who said,

‘It take three lifetimes to learn the martial arts.

Americans haven’t had the martial arts long enough,

so no American can master them.’

 

This was a high ranker,

and he ranked in more ways than one.

In fact, he ranked to high heaven,

if you get my drift.

I mean, what he said was actually racist.

And the research I have done in the martial arts

totally proves this.

Why should it take three lifetimes to understand something?

Just look up the word or concept,

and then do the right drills or exercises

(and it’s easy to figure out

what’s right when you understand the words)

and you have mastery!

 

Well,

the good news is that nobody remembers his name,

so his influence was nothing,

and we are safe to master the martial arts as we wish.

 

And the last thing on this subject?

I actually wrote a dictionary of martial arts terms,

and terms that pertain to Matrixing

(which is the martial method of my school)

 

A whole dictionary.

Me.

And everybody that reads it

is blown away.

And believe me,

people actually do read it,

just like a novel.

The ability to understand something,

you see,

and then master it,

is so deliciously sweet.

 

It certainly makes figuring out something

like the eight deadly attacks

very, very easy.

 

That all said,

you should probably get one of these dictionaries.

The only problem?

I don’t sell them.

 

Sorry.