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# 2. 2003

The international Journal of Combat Martial Arts and Sciences ICMAUA

Current articles:

Michael Mason’s Tae-Pung Do: The Way of the Hurricane: Mason (01.2003)

Oriental Therapeutic First Aid: Monasingh (03.2003)

This is the philosophy of my School. School Kayten Ryu - Ancient Warriors: Pizzato (04.2003)

What is Aikido: Garcia-Ortiz (05.2003)

KOKORO: The Spirit: Craig l. Brooks (06.2003)

American Goju-Kempo Syllabus. 10th Kyu-2nd Dan: Craig l. Brooks (07.2003)

Learning The Mastery Of Self: analogies for brown belt studies: Street Combat Kenpo dynamics of motion; when does the line become circular and circle become a line?: Reginald Hoover (08.2003)

Freestyle Ju Jitsu: Dave Baker (08.2003)

Musha-ryu Ninjutsu: Scott Ealey (12.2003)

Michael Mason’s Tae-Pung Do: The Way of the Hurricane

By Dr. Michael A. Mason, Ph. D.

In this article, I will attempt to give a brief description and understanding of the art of Tae-Pung Do.

Literally translated, Tae-Pung Do means “Way of the Hurricane”. With the hurricane as the frame of reference, we look into many aspects of the martial art and the martial artist as relating to the hurricane. This can best be explained by beginning with an understanding of the internal aspects and philosophies of Tae-Pung Do.

Within the hurricane, we see three primary elements which combine to make the complete hurricane. Therefore with this in mind we must analyze these components. They are as follows:

1. The eye of the hurricane: An amazing phenomenon whereby the eye is completely calm despite the actions of the hurricane as a whole

2. The warm air: This directly surrounds the eye of the hurricane

3. The cold air: Directly surrounding the warm air

4. The total hurricane, complete with all components

As we look at these different areas, we are able to see how each correlates into an aspect of the martial arts as they should pertain to the particular martial artist. Now let’s give a definition of the four parts as they pertain to the martial artist in particular.

1. The eye of the hurricane: The personality, always calm regardless of what else is happening

2. The Warm Air: The spirit and values of the martial artist

3. The Cold Air: The calculating mind of the martial artist

4. The total Hurricane: The body of the martial artist

We see with this that the personality of the martial artist, his/her inner self, should always remain calm. Many times in a fight situation a person will begin to get nervous or anxious. This should never affect the personality of a martial artist, this should remain controlled. The warm air represents the spiritual values of the martial artist. When we look at values, we are talking about something that is living for values can only be held by living creatures. This being the case, it becomes logical to look at the warm air as representative of the values of the martial artist. The cold air is the mind of our martial artist. Not something that in and of itself is life, but something that is a mechanism for calculating and figuring. The cold air represents this raw knowledge that is impartial, unbiased and non-living. And finally, when we put it all together, we come to the total hurricane, the body of the martial artist which contains the Personality, Spiritual Values and Intellectual Concepts.

As we go through life, we look at many people who in Tae-Pung Do we would consider to be unbalanced hurricanes. A person resembles and unbalanced hurricane when they have not grown their spiritual values in line with their mind. For example, a person may have a value against being argued with. If this value is not in line with the mind, then the person could easily take the smallest debate or objection very personal and even react in a very defensive manner. As we look at the hurricane, this is when the warm air and the cold air collide, causing the hurricane to be unleashed.

It is always important to remember that in Tae-Pung Do when we are referring to anything, we understand that there are two aspects of it. The first aspect is the potential and the second is the actual. As martial artists we deal with these concepts all the time. Do we train in martial arts only for the battle that is actually happening or going to happen? Or, do we train in the martial arts for the battle that may potentially happen? In almost all cases we would find that we are training for the potential. Therefore, when referring to a Tae-Pung Do-ist we must understand that the ideal TPD-ist is a balanced hurricane in and of themselves. Without outside influence this person is capable of maintaining themselves in a fashion that is without anger and without frustration, always in control and always a hurricane in potential. While the actuality of a martial artist at anytime may be calm, the potential is there to actually become the ‘hurricane’. This hurricane becomes actual only when the values of the martial artist are assaulted. A very simple example of this is the value that most all people have on Free Will, the right to choose freely what you do and think. If this is challenged we become very angry and distraught. If someone tells you what to think then they have taken away your control, your free will. When this happens we see the martial artist as a hurricane change from potential to actual. This is the point of combat, the beginning of battle. At this point the martial artist has many weapons at his/her disposal.

1. Rain

2. Gusting Winds

3. Hail

4. Lightning

5. Flash Flood

6. Thunder

7. Tornado

8. And finally, attack by debris

For me to go into each of these attack methods would be a very in depth discussion. However, if you keep in mind the aspects of how each of these things works, then you have the basic aspect of how a Tae-Pung Do-ist would fight. It is by putting these things together that we find a power that is nearly inescapable.

Oriental Therapeutic First Aid

By Dr. Stephen Michael Monasingh

There are 14 Channels of energy (Meridians) in the human body : Lung; Large Intestine; Stomach; Spleen; Heart; Small Intestine; Urinary Bladder; Kidney; Heart Governor (Blood Circulation; Heart and Sex Organs); Triple Warmer (Respiration; Digestion and Genitourinary Functions); Gall Bladder; Liver; Governing Vessel (Physical Energy); and Conception Vessel (Sexual Energy).

Basic Ailment	Area	Location
Headache, Hangover, Sleepiness	Head	Left side of head, 5 Suns Northeast of ear opening and Right side of head, 5 Suns Northwest of ear opening.
Coughing	Throat	Soft area between clavicles.
Coughing	Torso	Midway between soft area between clavicles and Solar Plexus.
Acid reflux		Solar Plexus
Trapped Gas		Between front and back sternum at either side.
Constipation		On outside of 2^nd abdominal muscles south of Solar Plexus.
Pain in the Knee	Leg	Southwest point of right knee cap/ southeast point of left knee cap.
Pain in the side of the Leg		Ball and Socket joint and midway between Ball and Socket joint and knee on the outside of leg.
Pain in the Calf Muscle/Kidney malfunction		Left Calf Muscle : midway between vertex and lower point of right lobe; Right Calf Muscle : midway between vertex and lower point of left lobe.
Stomach Tonification		Vertex of shin and instep, 2^nd toe line
Headache		Left outer ankle at southeast point.
Hernia		Outer edge of tip of great toe nail.
Cramp in the Forearm	Arm	Index finger line, 2 Suns from elbow joint toward wrist.
Runny or Stuffy Nostril		Thumb line on edge of forearm, 2 and 1/2 Suns from wrist joint toward elbow.
Intestinal Worms		Palm facing downward, middle finger line, 2 Suns from wrist joint toward elbow.
Low Blood Pressure		Thumb line on edge of forearm, 1 and 1/2 Suns from wrist joint toward elbow.
Pain in the Neck/Cramp in the Arms	Back	Between 2^nd and 3^rd vertebrae south of base of neck.
Anti-tetanus		2 Suns north of Coccyx.
Haemorrhoids		Tip of Coccyx.

To locate acupressure point, imagine the compass for direction. North is always at the top and East, to the right.

The joints of the index finger are referred to as “Suns”. E.g : one joint = one “Sun”. The length of the patient’s index finger join (“Sun”) MUST BE USED FOR MEASUREMENT! [Not that of the person administering the treatment].

To apply treatment, locate acupressure point and depress firmly. Massage in a small circle without leaving point, in a clockwise direction for tomification or in an anti-clockwise direction for sedation.

DO NOT MASSAGE ACUPRESSURE POINT FOR ANY LONG PERIOD! When the acupressure point is massaged, the Central Nervous System is triggered and this message is relayed to the internal organ which may be malfunctioning.

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DISCLAIMER : THE AUTHOR DOES NOT GUARANTEE COMPLETE HEALING BECAUSE EACH INDIVIDUAL REACTS DIFFERENTLY TO TREATMENT.

This is the philosophy of my School

School Kayten Ryu - Ancient Warriors

By Adriano Pizzato

Mugei Mumei no Jutsu, or rather... No name no art. An art that creates itself, free from conventions or traditions, that express its essence in the ancient way, walking the way of free living, thinking. Spirit essence, free to act in the complete respect of persons and things. Walking with the companions the ancient path of the warrior, mystical man and excellent fighter if it is necessary, for his/her sense of responsibility, conscience, knowledge and respect of the Sacred Rules. Ready to lower in the obscurity, to climb in full light without remaining blinded in both cases. A lot of time later this path would have been known as the Shadow Path or the Way of Silence. This path will never have name and never be an organized art: it will have to remain always a free and long living thing, without confinements and without human rules that reduces it to a “tight path”.

The Black Shadows Group of the Kayten ryu attends lessons in the dojo and in external places, in the green of the valleys that surround Turin, precisely in the valleys of Lanzo, where it organizes meetings with accessible prices and fees, dedicated to all students and instructors in any season. It also promotes interdisciplinary stages at international level to make possible for every student to constantly progress in his/her study in all the varied arts.

Philosophy of the school

If you don't know yourself, you will live in company of the doubts and uncertainties for the rest of your life and every thing will be seen by you with fear, and in this cases you will feel your impotence while who is near to you will feel sorrow and pain by you. If you know yourself and don't know the other once, you will have good probabilities to succeed in everything but working briskly! If you know yourself and even the other once, if you know how to maintain you humble and correct, all the doors will be opened wide and the world will be your friend! These few rules, passing through many ancient people, have actually reached us. This path is hard to walk but if it is crossed despite all its traps, life it will be an adventure worthy to have lived! The ancient warriors are back! If you want to join us, you will be the welcome! There's nothing more to say, only to work and to still study and then to work and to study again. if you desire to exchange your opinions, to ask information, o ideas to propose, you can do it sending an e-mail or on our special forums. The strength. It is not important if you are weak or strong, you will have your strength, because every being has her proper one and always remember that even a baby using his/her strength is able “to win a giant!”. The 5 elements are your physical strength.

1) EARTH: it transforms your body in a stone and it transforms your feet in the roots of a tree and when you strike you have to be the rock that rains from the sky and produces a crater, and never withdraw!.

2) WATER: be soft and evasive in the movements, to the speed of your adversary oppose a weary calm and move you in semicircle until you won't find the moment for strike.

3) FIRE: be the fury of the flame! Your movements have to be irregular and quivering as those of a flame! You won't produce damages to your adversary, but you will disorientate him and remember: never withdraw!.

4) WIND: it instigates your speed in the three directions in front of you, if you will be precise and determined the impact will be avoided because your cold determination to strike the target. and to never withdraw!.

5) VOID: when you will reach this phase, you will see the things from far and you will know how to act and as a baby it learns first the vowels then the consonants to compose the words, with the words he will form a sentence of sense: 4 elements are the words, the 5th or rather the void, the sentence of sense. But remember that you will always have to be reach of humility, or you will loss everything this that you have acquired.

The Spirit. As for the Strength, Also for the Spirit you have disposition of the 5 Elements:

1) EARTH: determined but not in stubborn sense, the stubbornness dull door to the ruins, the determination supported by the wish for victory.

2) WATER: Excellent to avoid conflicts or to deceive the adversaries but pay attention to the risk of eternal indecision that is able to bring to the defeat!.

3) FIRE: be careful to use it! From the euphoria of the victory it is able to conduct you to the defeat! Happiness and anger in this element are as near as the two faces of a coin.

4) WIND: are able to dominated the three preceding elements, but be objective and not to let pick you up from the senses of executes or ideal when know very well as are the things, in few words not think to much but act!

5) VOID: when you will have reached this,you will be in peace with yourself and with everything around you and through use of the preceding elements you will know how to composed as The said first the sentences of sense, then you will be able to read who is close to you, but you will never have to take advantage of it for your personal affairs. A good ancient warrrior had to know how to race his “alternative”, and to know how to exploit to the maximum one his intellect and his technique. It learns to fight and to not win for being superior to your neighbor but to know yourself well.

He who practice this art has to know absolutely himself: his weapons are his intellect and his techniques. The weapons are considered temporary helps, and as such to trust them and to think that can resolve the situations, it means to take big risks.

The spirit is calm anymore, the technique is precise anymore. To win an adversary violence is not needed, but to learn the art of the separation or rather “to see all and nothing.” It is necessary to understand the thing it doesn't concern yourself as, and to avoid emotional involvements. This way you can let also evolve in your favor a negative situation.

Dark the techniques are raw less you have probability to win. Care about putting you in safe today, to win there is always time. Always act as if you are alone.

The study of the 5 elements will indicate to you the path always you have to cross.

Even if you had to leave the road, try to hold you near to it and never lose it of sight.

The obstacles have to be removed, avoiding them you will find again them on the street of return. Preserves a little beat of your fear, it will make you wise.

Do more experiences that you are able, even from the meaningless things you draw great teachings.

The degrees serve only to inform your adversary if you are an interesting target or not. The mistake that you have made today avoid to make again tomorrow, or the lead on your shoulders will be double.

Be always yourself and not copy from the others, since these will similar to you but they will be never you. When you fight in training with one companion of yours, try to see in him yourself, because if you will be hard, he/she will answer to your hits hardly, if you will use lightness you will be repaid with this. When you take a hit not to try to return him, you would take other twenty ones to give one: if the hit has entered in your guard, there are two reasons, the first one you have been wrong, the second, your companion was better than you. A lot of times walking along the hard path of the knowledge there will rise doubts or uncertainties, but it is a path and it is normal that it is in this way, walking on and on you will reach the peak, and you can help the others.

What is Aikido

By Jorge Luis Garcia-Ortiz

Aikido is a non competitive martial art form that utilizes striking techniques, all forms of joint locks, throws, takedowns, chokes and strangulation techniques, a study of weapons including knife, sword, and staff and other techniques to enable the Aikido student to learn classic forms of Self-Defense, while build character, improving physical fitness and incrising confidence, focus and awareness.

Aikido is an art involving strikes, throws and joints techniques, focusing not on punching or kicking opponents, but rather on using their own energy to gain control of them or to throuw them away from you. Aikido places great emphasis on motion and the dynamic of movement. Practitioners will find from Aikido what they are looking for, wheter it is Self-Defense techniques, spiritual enlightenmemnt, physical health or! peace of mind.

Who Develop the Art and a Brief History

O'sensei Morihei Ueshiba was born in Japan in 1883 and as a young, reportedly frail child often watched as his father received abuse from criminals fighting for control of local politics. He resolved to improve his abilities and began to study various Martial Arts and physical conditioning system in order to strengthen himself and learn to fight. The study included such areas as Yari (spear), Tachi (sword) and several styles of Jujutsu (empty or bare-handed grappling fighting). He is reported to have received certificates of mastery and teaching authorizations in several of the systems he studied although some historians believe that the exact authorizations are less than clear.

What is certain however was his study of Aiki-Jitsu with Sokaku Takeda and his eventual breaka! way from him to began teaching a Martial Arts form that was originally called Aikibudo, and that later evolved into what we today refer to as Aikido.

Technically speaking Aikido has it's foundational beginning in the various Martial Arts forms that Ueshiba studied. This includes the joints manipulation of Daito Ryu Aiki-Jujutsu, the strikes and dashing your opponent to the ground of various schools of Jujutsu (such Kito Ryu), and the concepts of the Aiki involving blending and kuzushi (off balance) combined with broad expensive movements of several of the weapons arts. Some writers attribute many of the techniques that Ueshiba later developed to sword movements and strikes although this foundation is not quiet clear as others.

What is the Ki in Aikido ?

O'sensei Ueshiba beleive quiet definitively in the power of Ki. Ki has been loosely d! efined as universal energy that interlinks all living things. Sort of an early view of Gaia, although somewhat more complicated and personal than that. The methaphysical aspects of this belief in Ki and the properties attributed to it is much in debate even today.

One school of thought holds that it exists, is palpable and influences all around us to the point where control of opponent can be maintaine without touch simply by control and manipulation of his "Ki". A more rationalist approach is to explain Ki as sense of focus, concentration power, timing, forestalling and blending with attack, all combinated with the ability of flawlessly execute the movements and techniques of the art form.

As example of the difference s in these viewpoints regarding the concepts of Ki or energy for example can be seen in the conduct of various schools of Aikido. Some focus extensively on the meditative aspects of Ki, building focus and relaxation. Other schools spend conside! rable class time training in Ki development exercises that may or may not have an immediate obvious relationship to practical Self-Defense concepts.

At the Combat Aikido, student are educated in concepts of Ki, but class focus is more toward precision of execution and effectiveness in motion.

Zanshin (awareness in all directions) and mental focus is therefore a natural by-product of such practice.

KOKORO: The Spirit

By Craig l. Brooks