Martial Arts

Before you can change a paradigm you have to build a bridge to it. Many want peace and love to sping out of war and hate. The bridge they need is the peaceful warrior.

In nature you see them as the siverbacks protecting his troop, antlered stags protecting unantlered doe’s and young, mother bear protecting young from male bear, stallions protecting against wolves and mountain lions, hippos that have tamed crocodiles to the point where baby hippos can swim freely among them. In humans there is the martial artist

The real meaning of warrior does not refer to making wars on each other but means one who is brave. I.e, Indian brave.
Don’t be afraid of who your are, be heroic and kind at the same time.

Every martial art made is based on how the human body moves using human structure. Even if the style is tiger, crane, praying mantis, or monkey, it is still just a human “style” mimicking animals. The tiger stylist only mimics the tiger but can’t bring down a water buffalo anymore than the crane stylist can dunk his head into a lake and pull out a fish in his mouth.

So it is of utmost importance to learn human anatomy and physiology. Learn the strengths and weakness, the vital areas, locations of arteries, joints, tendons. Learn to control the forces of yin and yang and the movements of the five elements. With this knowledge a martial artist can defeat yang energy with yin energy and use the controlling cycle of the five elements to control its generating cycle. This seems only complicated at first then with a little teaching it is as simple as “rock, paper, scissors.”

“Three Circles”™ tries to put back into the martial arts what has been distilled out though specialization.

There are three main causes of this specialization; personal, geographical, and political.

When a student learns a style, they take what works for their body type (five elements) and leave what doesn’t. A short over weight person will never get proficient in moving like a tall slender person and visa versa. Each person will then go on to teach their students moves they know and do best while leaving out the ones they are incompetent. Sometimes a person is only able to learn part of a style and makes a new style out of that.

When a style moves from one location to another, it has to adapt to fit the new location. A style utilizing a long spear will not be as functional in a highly wooded area. A style made for a padded ring utilizing techniques to wear down a single opponent will not be the best choice when being attacked in an urban setting by multiple opponents.

Martial arts have also been made illegal by governments looking to suppress any training that might lead to a future uprising. These martial arts were than taught in secret, moved to a different country or were made to look like dance. The ones taught in secret were only taught to direct family members and people they could trust. The ones that went to another country fall into the geographic category. The ones made to look like dance were taught openly as exercise or looked like useless martial arts that no one took it seriously. It took a dedication of years to earn the trust of the instructor to be shown real applications.

Instead of practicing martial art forms (gongfu), energy exercises (qigong) and meditation (chan) separately, I have integrated all these three aspects into one unit, and by integrating the Dao theory, Bagua Theory and the Five phases I mistakingly discovered an underlying template to all martial arts.

If you learn “Three Circles”™  you indirectly learn all styles making “styles” obsolete.

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