The martial arts are taught in the worst manner possible. The martial arts are a blessing and a fantastically efficient method of combat, unfortunately, the method for their teaching is woefully inadequate. This method of instruction is called Monkey see monkey do.

Your noggin, in truth, houses a highly efficient computer. When you feed random strings of data into the computer,k however, the result is not efficiency. Instead, you get slowed reaction time, inefficiency, and actual incorrect data. Gee, I think I’ll block that foot with my nose.

People having vested interest is one example of corruption, simply, somebody is going to gain something, and therefore messes up the workability of the martial arts. A top ring fighter, during the Ultimate Fighter reality show, told one of the contestants to hit somebody in the foot. He gave this advice because he wasn’t going to tell squat to a fighter that he might have to face some day.

The tournament is another form of corruption, the desire to win a trophy encourages one to follow certain rules, and these rules inhibit ones ability to survive on the street. A fellow doesn’t bother learning to protect the groin area because the other fighter can’t strike him there. according to the rules. But when he has to use his art for real, guess where he gets hit?

One of my favorite forms of corruption is national, for instance, the government tells you how to fight. You might think it doesn’t happen, but Korea started this thing called Tae Kown Do, and threw away the rather phenomenal art of Karate, and China killed off or imprisoned all its kung fu masters, then hired a bunch of physical education coaches to create wu shu. In this country we have the AAU, Olympic committees, and so on, and martial art do you think Obama is going to proscribe for you?

Another great corrupter is medicine, because medicine slants data. Students are taught how to do great damage to nerve points with a touch, but the student needs the ability to actually punch and survive in combat before he can go looking for fine, little nerve points. And being able to stop the heart, damage the kidney, and so on, is something that every school preaches, then they woefully neglect training a student to be able to absorb the actual impact of striking a human body.

Commercialism has to be at the top when it comes to factors of corruption. Janie’s mother brings her to a karate school to learn to protect herself, and then goes insane if little Janie gets a cut lip or black eye. And what if the little Janie, by some odd chance of mistake, was actually taught break the arm of the school bully, the lawsuits would be unimaginable!

The martial arts have been corrupted, and that is a fact. The good news is that there is a solution to this situation, and it is a solution that actually fixes all of the martial arts on planet earth. Without this solution, you might just as well be a monkey, corrupted and unable to break into the true blessings of the True Art.

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