Five Martial Arts Calisthenics To Make You Five Times More Stronger, Faster And Powerful!

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I was talking with a fellow the other day, and we were thinking about condensing body calisthenics into maybe a half dozen exercises. Think about it, five martial arts exercises that increase your strength, make you faster and more powerful. All you do is these five exercises, and that’s all you need.

So I researched a bunch of things having to do with Yoga, Tibetian exercises and even American things like Matt Furey. Here’s my initial work up on five exercises, and while I will probably work on them a bit, improve them further, I think they fit the bill. The extra added attraction is that they’ll be good martial arts class warm ups, no matter whether you do Karate, kenpo, aikido, or whatever.

First, and always, is stretching. Most body injuries come from the body being compacted, so to stretch the body out, whether it be splits or just hanging from a tree or over the side of a bed, will start the blood flowing and wake the body up. No set exercise for this, I just recommend researching a little yoga, isolating the movements you aren’t flexible in, and working on them.

Next, would be snaking. This includes such things as dive bomber push ups (doing a push up while worming the body), and covers basically the whole front bend of the body. There are a whole series of yoga poses, from dog looks down or up to child pose to rabbits pose, that could fit in this particular exercise.

The third exercise would be that staple from wrestling called bridging. There are many varieties of bridging, and they should be explored gently and on a gradient. Bridging from the neck, the hands, over a stool, all this covers the whole range of bending the body backwards.

You may have figured out that I am trying to explore every range of motion for the body, and you would be correct. After bending the body front and back, we have twisting the body laterally. While there are many yoga poses that twist the body in this manner, a general exercise would be if you just sit cross legged looking over your shoulder, then twist all the way up and then down to cross legged and looking over the shoulder on the other side.

Fifth and last would be being upside down. This should reverse gravity on all the inner organs, and be very beneficial. This would include frog stands, head stands, and eventually handstands.

So that’s it, my quick prescription for total body health through five body calisthenic, martial arts exercises. These exercises you will find in many other people’s regimens, and in the various body disciplines developed over the years. At any rate, try it out for a few weeks, and watch yourself get nothing but better and strong and faster.

Clown Role Performing Arts of Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera

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The Clown Role Performing Arts of Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera has a long history.It’s Originated in jiangxi region when enjoyment of ancient tea art rudiment,life breath very strong, and has a broad mass base, spreads spread in jiangxi province all over the country. In the inheritance process,Constantly absorbing the surrounding provinces play kind of characteristic, continue to develop to become their own unique characteristics. Ganzhou Tea-picking Operaclown with song, dance and play three equal for its distinctive sign,

With countless generations of the clown artists of performing arts in innovation, deepen, ascension, gradually evolved into today were full play, kung fu is diversiform, hold concurrently inclusiveness and flexibility of many characteristics of performing forms.Opera and songs in together, Song and dance is together.Its “dance” characteristic mainly reflects in: runt step, single ShuiXiu, the fan flowers..Ganzhou Tea-picking opera clown with witty language, indirect sweet singing, fresh and natural performance, portray a distinct personalities, bantering lovely artistic image, dance on the ugly ruthless ironic, to the good praise sing psalms. s.

Martial Arts & Self Defense – Defending Yourself Against A Wall Pin Attack

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Most martial arts and self defense students are taught how to defend against things like punches, grabs, kicks, and even weapon attacks. But, what about attacks, like a wall pin – where he has you shoved up and pinned against a wall, car, or other obstacle – where your attacker is using your surroundings as an aid for his assault?

While this article cannot teach you everything you need to know to escape from the exact attack you might find yourself in, it does offer some very powerful strategies and tactics that you can use to turn the tables on him during one of these very dangerous attack-types. So, if this is something that you think is important to add to your toolbox of techniques, then read on.

If not, then this article is definitely not for you.

I’ll assume that, if you’re still reading, you want to learn how to deal with this very common type of attack.

And, before I go into describing some of the strategies and tactics that I want to give you for surviving a wall-pin attack, I want to talk about something else that you must never forget. Okay?

That thing is this. You can never forget that a self defense situation is never like class training? What that means is that, many of the “invisible aspects” of your class – things like:

1) Speed
2) Timing
3) Intensity
4) Your partner’s intention to really damage you, and even…
5) The large, open space of the training area

Will usually be EXACTLY OPPOSITE from what you are used to!

You must be very mindful of these realities which exist in the world of self defense, but typically are not an issue in the realm of sport karate and mixed martial arts. Make sure that, if you are serious about really learning to defend yourself, that your training reflects these realities.

What does this have to do with the topic of this article?

Good question.

And the answer is… EVERYTHING!

Your attacker is not an idiot. He will do everything he can to make sure that he has the greatest advantage in the situation. He is there to win, not to see which of you is the better fighter!

And, that’s where the wall pin comes in.

This is where your attacker grabs or shoves you in some way, and shoves you face-first or backwards, against a wall, and then proceeds to lay his body weight into you to make sure that you can’t go anywhere.

In this moment, you must think outside the box if you’re going to escape effectively and turn things around.

That being said, here are a few strategies and tactics that can be used to get out of this dangerous type of situation:

1) Use the wall itself for leverage. Apply leverage against the stability of the wall to increase your own strength and shove your assailant back. This could provide you with a complete escape on one extreme, to just enough space on the other, to be able to get a punch or kick in against him.

2) Move laterally ALONG the wall. Remember that he is pushing you “into” the wall. If you can remember that he doesn’t have you caged on all sides, you can use the openings to your left and right as escape avenues. Then, once free, you can apply your conventional punching, kicking, or grappling skills.

3) Use deception. When you hit the wall, using your best breakfall and receiving skills to minimize damage, act as though the impact was much worse than it really is. Relax as though you have been dazed or knocked unconscious. Then, when he adjusts to your apparent condition, and the fact that he now has to hold up your dead weight, explode into action and take the fight to him!

Remember that effective self defense takes into account that you WILL be the underdog – that your attacker will have the upper hand – and that, it WON’T be “fair.” So, you must get over the sick sense of “fair-play” and flat-out wrong information that is being passed around as self defense by poor instructors with absolutely no real-world experience!

Only Real Martial Arts Stop Rapists

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One of my favorite stories to tell is about the time my brother-in-law’s girlfriend got her black belt in karate…

She had her big flashy test…kicked the bag…sparred other girls (and a couple of guys that looked like girls!) with the foam booties and gloves on…did her kata with the appropriate “snap” in her movements…very nice.

Now, I’m not a complete jerk, so I let her have her moment. Congratulated her, hobnobbed with the karate “master”, and ate a piece of the sheet cake with little icing karate dudes on it….

That was until a couple of months later at a family graduation party when she began to tell all the girls how the type of “karate” she studies is great for fitness (ok), fun (ok), and self defense (BZZZZZ!).

I had stood what I could, but I couldn’t stands it no more…

I walked right up into the middle of the gaggling girls, singled her out and flat out asked her, “Tell me the truth…If a 225 pound man attacked and tried to rape and kill you, can you 100%, honestly say that you would know what to do? Could you save your own life?”

There was a deathly quiet pause as every single girl in the room visualized that horrible situation in their own minds. Then came the same answer I’ve heard from every single women martial artist I’ve ever met in my life who doesn’t train with us…

“Ummm…I guess not.”

Here in the United States there seems to be a government agency looking into just about every consumer industry in an effort to protect people from scammers, hucksters, and other assorted con men or corporate swindle.

Unfortunately, for women who are looking for a martial arts style that will provide them with a way to defend themselves, there is no government agency licensing or even looking into instructors or the proven effectiveness of the claims.

Therefore there is an over abundance of inexperienced, untrained, liars who claim they are teaching self-defense. These frauds will often teach a style that sounds and perhaps even looks good on the mat, but lacks any value in real combat.

Moreover, dealing with criminal rapist scum is no time for a woman to find out that her “training” was really just cardio kickboxing in disguise… So share the following information with a woman you care for.
Examining the profiles of rapists gives incite into a dangerous enemy.

The Power-assertive rapist considers himself manly and is the one most likely to commit date rapes. This type makes up 44% of rapists and will try to con a victim and gain her trust, but will have no problem using whatever level of physical force he needs to take control.

The Anger-retaliatory rapist hates women and will look to brutalize and punish them. He looks for targets of opportunity and will most likely beat you unconscious then commit rape. This animal makes up 33% of rapists and is easily enraged.

Power-reassurance rapists account for 21% of rapes and often spies on or stalks his victims since he lacks the confidence to have a normal relationship with women. In his twisted fantasy, he sees himself and the victim as lovers, and will force her to wear lingerie and kiss her while seeing the attack as lovemaking. However, using violence is not out of the question if it comes down to making a woman give in to his demands.

The Anger-excitation is the worst of the lot. A sexual sadist, this sick bastard only makes up 5% of all rapists. He has his attacks preplanned and victims can be women he knows or just spots haphazardly on the street. He derives sexual pleasure from inflicting pain and will tie up, gag and torture women for days on end. So vile is this creature that he will even film or photograph his victims so he can relive the attacks. He is the hardest to catch of the group because he usually kills his victims when he’s through.

During an attack your mind will be racing and you won’t be thinking clearing about what kind of rapist you are dealing with and what approach to take, but what all experts agree on is that a “properly trained” woman who fights back early DOUBLES their chance of escape…AGAINST ANY SIZE OR STRENGTH ATTACKER.

The Department of Justice reported that 93,934 women were forcibly raped in 2005 (They’re still calculating ’06)…These numbers are completely unacceptable as women can and should know how to defend themselves.

In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, safety is listed right after breathing and eating. Personal protection is too important to be left to the police alone, or to depend on others for help.

Teaching and learning a martial art is ok as it has plenty of redeeming physical, cultural, social, & mental benefits. However, what people (especially women) need to understand, is that 99% of martial arts are NOT legitimate methods of self-defense.

Mossad And Their Martial Arts

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Sun-Tzu wrote “military affairs are country’s vital political concerns,” and in order to do that you need to have good intelligence gathering agencies, and if you possess less resources than your enemies the more vital information is to your cause. The nation of Israel has that very problem, and with enemies that are willing to fight for centuries every strike has to count.

Like many nations today Israel has to deal with conventional military threats and fanatics in their mists and from outside their country. In any conflict training is important and Mossad values it and continuously improves it to deal with new enemies.

Mossad which is Hebrew for “institute” was created to help better coordinate Israel’s intelligence gathering agencies, and among its responsibilities is gathering for human intelligence, covert paramilitary actions, and counterterrorism operations. The agency was influenced heavily by the CIA model, and it quickly produced results for the new nation.

The agency’s roots began in the Mossad Le’aliyah Bet which was dedicated to bring in Jews to Palestine despite British immigration laws restricting the number of immigrants to the region, but once Israel became a nation the group’s focus shifted to intelligence work. Reuven Shiloah became the first Director of the Mossad and would obtain the Arab League in the first Arab-Israeli War. Over the years the agency has had many critics, but few dispute the fact that they get the job done.

Today Mossad’s headquarters is in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, and employs an unknown number of agents, but it is believed that there are 8 departments and over 1,000 active agents. Among the agency’s departments is the Special Operations Division which is charged with assassinations, sabotage, and psychological warfare. Other departments handle aspects concerning intelligence work including maintaining diplomatic relations with Israel’s enemies and the agency has its own research and development departments, but like all others little is known about their operations.

Since Israel had mandatory military service it is safe to assume the majority of their agents have been trained in close combat and many have combat experience. The Israel martial art Krav Maga is taught to operatives for self defense as well as knife fighting and sentry removal. Many veterans of the agency worked as commandos in the Israeli Defense Force, so their operations have been influenced by this experience as well as the street fighting they have had to do over the years.

A Mossad case officer or katsa spends three years training in the Mossad’s academy near the town of Herzliya. There they learn how to recruit intelligence assets and avoid enemy agents. They’re believed to operate in the Middle East and Europe, but some believe they operate in the United State also, and prior to the September 11th attack Mossad warned the United States that some 200 enemy terrorists were in the country though they didn’t know specifically what they were doing.

The truth is still in the shadows when it comes to many operations, but agents have used bombs, bullets and have even kidnapped people to accomplish their goals, and only recently torture has been officially banned by the state. Operations have involved everything from chasing down Nazi war criminals to hunting down and killing terrorists. During the Six Day war in 1967 Israeli intelligence was responsible for helping to destroy much of Egypt’s air force, but also caused the attack on the United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty.

Like any intelligence agency your failures are public and your successes are private, but overall the Israelis are at the top of there game. Like martial arts themselves, intelligence is a force multiplier that lets you do more damage with less, and Israel will always be at a disadvantage, but it doesn’t mean they can’t win.