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The word meditation is widely used to mean a variety of things. Many people imagine that meditation means sitting in a crossed-legged position and listening to your breath. Meditation is a variety of inner practices, where each practice has different purpose - sometimes event absolutely different.
Some practices helps to develop concentration. The practitioner must be able to keep the mind fixed on a specific task or object without allowing it (the mind) to jump to another object for a determined period of time.
To begin developing concentration, pick some object, thought, or a part of the body and fix your mind on it for a fixed length of time. Candle gazing or breath counting are examples. Such shorten focused concentration used by an athlete getting ready to shoot a basketball from the free-throw line, golfer preparing to putt on the green, or a sniper aiming at his target.
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How to Perform Strong Man Stunts
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A book from 1952 describing how to perform strong man stunts such as tearing a telephone book in half, bending a steel spikes, etc. I guess, back then, the phone books were much thinner then today.
How to Tear A Telephone Book In Halves
Grasp the telephone book with the hands on the free page side where you leaf it open. Place the book firmly on your knee, and with the heel of each hand push the pages back so that they slant towards the edge of the book farthest away from your body. The more you slip the pages back, the easier will it become to tear the book, because you actually only tear a few pages at a time in succession.
To your beholders, it looks as though you were tearing the whole book through at once. They never realize what you are doing, as the act is so natural. When you have slipped the pages as much as possible, begin to tear, pulling up with the right hand as your tear downward with the left. Once the pages are broken, the rest tear easily.
Of course, you will not be able to do it first time you try. Like everything else, it takes practice. Once you have mastered the trick, it will be an easy stunt for you to perform.
Many are able to progress on this stunt by tearing the telephone book into quarters.
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One day while walking through the wilderness a man stumbled upon a vicious tiger. He ran but soon came to the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, he climbed down a vine and dangled over the fatal precipice. As he hung there, two mice appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine. Suddenly, he noticed on the vine a plump wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious!
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A quite sarcastic review on Martial Arts movie heroes in the "The Sydney Morning Herald":
BRUCE LEE
Ah, Bruce. No flies on you, mate - you moved too bloody fast to let them land. Lee is the original and still the best martial arts hero, the reason thousands of Western teenagers were admitted to hospital with self-inflicted nunchaku bruises in the '70s. It didn't matter that the English dubbing in movies such as Fists of Fury was so poor Lee had left the room by the time his dialogue came on, or that his arch foes were often farcical: "Stand still, Lee, while I attach this monkey's claw to my wrist." What mattered was his peerless speed, skill and technique. Respect.
CHUCK NORRIS
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Performance Enhancement in the Martial Arts
Based on research conducted in collaboration with Weinberg using martial artists, Seabourne (1998) concludes that:
1) relaxation and imagery together are more effective for martial artists than either alone;
2) martial artists practicing relaxation and imagery ten minutes a day performed better than those who do it immediately before competition;
3) individualized techniques even when taught in a group format are better than standardized group techniques;
4) there is no difference between instructor guided imagery and self-guided imagery; and
5) individualized cognitive techniques improve performance.
He recommends the use of diaphragmatic or focused breathing, muscle relaxation and body awareness, meditation, and internal imagery rather than external imagery. Internal imagery is visualization from the perspective of the athlete whereas external imagery is from the perspective of watching the athlete perform. Overall, the research focused on martial artists suggests that the techniques found useful for athletes, in general, are effective for enhancing performance in the martial arts, both in katas as well as sparring.
Conclusion: Watch the best and learn from the best to be the best!
External imagery... (WMV, 2.4 MB)
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Family Night: Hippo & Dog
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Martial Art is a lifestyle. And family is a part of lifestyle too. That is why MartialClub decided to make a Saturday's to be a Family Nights. On Saturdays we are going have something for you and your family members to enjoy together. Our first Family Night we open with wonderful duet of Hippo and the Dog by Pierre Coffin. The Hippo/Dog team were used to advertise a kids TV channel in France. Hippo and Dog singing Jungle Fever - enjoy.
In the jungle... (MPG, 4.8MB)
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Ignorance of the Law is No Defense
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Through out the world and North America, most states allow its law-abiding citizens only reasonable force to be used in self-defense. In most of the cases you can be criminally and or civilly held liable for Excessive and Deadly forces. In a court of law, it is assumed that you are aware of the legal limits of your actions.
General principles- Avoid physical confrontation
- If you are involved in a self-defense altercation:
- Ensure there is no longer a threat
- Call the police as soon as possible
- Identify witnesses
- Call your lawyer. Make no statements to the police or anyone else until your attorney is present.
- You are justified in using lethal force only if you "feared for your life"
US States Self-Defense Laws...
And for fun: dumb US and International Laws
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Machine Gun vs Japanese Katana
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According to tradition the first Japanese sword blade was made by the swordsmith Amakuni Yasutsuna about the year 700. Amakuni, his son Amakura and a number of other smiths were employed by the emperor to make weapons for his warriors. One day the emperor and his warriors passed by Amakuni’s forge as they returned from battle, and instead of greeting Amakuni as he usually did, the emperor totally ignored Amakuni and all the swordsmiths. As the warriors straggled back Amakuni noticed that many of them were carrying broken swords; the weapons he had forged had snapped in the heat of battle. He closely examined the weapons and swore an oath to make a sword that would not break and so regain the emperors favour...
After forging, the smith would then sign his name on the tang and pass the blade onto specialist craftsmen who would polish the blade and fit the hilt, guard (tsuba) and other items of sword furniture. The finished blade was sometimes given to a professional sword tester who used the living bodies of condemned criminals or their corpses taken from the execution grounds to test the cutting power of a new sword. Twenty different cuts were used, beginning with severing the hand by cutting through the bones of the wrist and progressing through the thicker limbs of the body. The results of the test were usually recorded on the nakago or sword tang.
See machine gun against katana... (WMV, 16 MB)
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