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Taekwondo styles are interesting things, as they are each a slice of the whole art, and even resemble the ultimate arrangement of all arts. I say this as a student of one of the original schools of the art, the Kang Duk Won. For the past forty years I’ve watched as each style of Korea’s most famous art has come forth, and there is an evolution of art occurring here.

I would pay to see The Gloved One fight. His moves are so smooth and delicious, his sense of timing is exquisite. Heck, Steven Seagal Lawman is gonna have to reach deep to even think about beating down the zipper man!

Let’s be honest, in my giving you The Real Secret of the Dim Mak Poison Hand Death Touch, there’s going to be a few people who like what I say, and there’s going to be a few people who don’t like what I say. Well, fantasies die hard, but the truth is always better in the long run. The truth, when it comes to using the death touch to kill people, is not all it is knocked up to be.

Okay, I’ve had enough of the pretty boy weight lifting and sit ups and stuff…I want an exercise routine that will enable me to have the ultimate Kung Fu Chi Power! I want to be a Gung Fu Monster! I want to rip up 300 year old trees by their roots and knock over cement outhouses with my little pinkie, and I’m going to start doing the following calisthenics every day until I make it!

I was working in a plastics factory a few decades ago, and word got around that I was training in the martial arts. A Philippine co-worker came up to me one lunchtime, and he said, “You no study martial arts, martial Arts bad…bad, ” then he shook his head and walked away. From this odd incident I ultimately realized where the martial arts originated.

Martial Arts Chi is one of the great secrets of all time. It’s not just that you see it on the big screen, or that it has become some sort of an urban legend, it’s that there is truth to be had. Chi does exist, but how the heck to you create it…let alone use it in martial arts techniques?

I saw an interesting TV show today, a couple of fellows were talking about faster reaction time through traditional martial arts training. The odd thing is that they were preaching about training the muscles. What they believed is that you train the body to react so fast that there is no reaction time.

Didn’t know that the man in black could fix Martial Arts Systems, did you? Well, actually, his advice is for fixing automobiles, sort of, but it leads into the fighting disciplines. And it is fine advice indeed.

I see advertisements for a Martial Arts Bible on the net, and it’s a clever advertisement. I mean, the concept for a book that answers all questions, it’s a good one, and it really is needed. Following are a list of books which I think need to be considered for this honor, with the last one really hitting the nail on the head.

When it come to generating real martial arts power one has to consider the concept of Fa Jing. This is the simple explosion of energy from the energy center that makes such arts as Karate, Shaolin, Tai Chi, and other traditional martial arts superior to sports. This is not to speak ill of the art of fisticuffs, this is just to say that there is a concept that, if followed, will create a superior human being.