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Zen Koans as they originate from Zen masters testing or challenging Zen students with parables, i.e., simple stories used to trigger a sudden realization in the student of a moral nature. Martial (Zen-like) Koan (or parable like quotes) studies are taking the practice of Zen Koan’s to trigger on-going realizations in the study of martial quotes that will lead toward martial enlightenment - toward a spiritual state of mind that allows for change. It is through such changes that both the discipline and the student can achieve higher levels of understanding through acquired knowledge and experience. Welcome to the “Martial (Zen-like) Koan Studies!”


Koans, or parables (a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson).”


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Thursday, June 4, 2015

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“Most empty handed fighters lack the understanding of how to generate force from a moving state, instead seeking to generate force from a stationary/rooted stance and twisting the hips.” - Marc MacYoung, Talking Knives


Comment: Martial disciplines tend toward a more stationary and rooted position when delivering techniques and combinations in a fight. In the dojo this is the novice level of practice, one that allows us to teach the mind and body things but to achieve true and a reality-based model of self-defense the practitioner must move on and up from that level. Generating force and power are complex and doing it while moving constantly and chaotically increases the complexities and ability to apply. A stationary rooted position removes the application of force and power from the martial artists and then relies heavily on the force and power of the adversary arriving at that exact moment you apply a technique such as a strike so that his momentum, mass and energy is used against him. If that fails, then what? Self-defense as either social or asocial in nature requires different tactics and strategies that go deeper than simple response taught in most MA-SD. Train to the moving state of both you and your adversary. Train to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, power and force as “One wholehearted application” that works in the situation at that moment - most difficult but doable. 

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