Martial Arts Magazine Budo International 303 January 1 fortnight 2016

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REF.: • DVD/SERAK-1

Pukulan Pencak Silat Serak is a very brutal and devastating Art. The Arts concept its to dominate and take over battleground and space, fast dominating space and engulfing opponents to prevent them from being able to use their weapons or body. Once space is acquired, the base and angle are taken to control opponents rotation or projection, rooting or uprooting is produced from the smallest expression of touch or angle and base position, this we call “Lengket” or sticky. Keeping very close to opponents when striking or using a weapon and putting opponents on “Slywa” or weightless stage of spinal and muscle misalignment. Once rooting takes place, the strike makes massive contact in the body that has no muscle or skeletal protection. “Sambuts” are finishes meaning something very hard to walk away from especially when compression of neck or spine, so finishing means its a done deal. The opposite of that is a “Buang” that stands for throws less devastating in the beginner levels but taught to learn mechanics that in later phases of development of the student or practioner can be modified to “Sambuts” for devastating throws. Compressing skeletal structure, weapons and body structures or striking, grapping defense and offence are all played and studied in our platforms. In this video there's a beginner “Pantjar” platform, also the “Jurus”, which are the playbooks of the system of Pukulan Pencak Silat Serak, are played here. This platform teaches where to be in position to attacker, the platform is 3 dimensional and teaches where opponents body's alignments are the weakest to point of contact the platform. It also teaches how to deal with multiple opponents and space needed, base angle and levers are all play here. Hope you enjoy my small offering into a vast large Art. “Hormat Terima Kasi”.

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"What beautifies the desert is that it hides a well of water somewhere." Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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low like water, slip as a cloud" (Yun Shui)... said the old proverb that my late and dear Martial Arts master, José Luis Paniagua Tevar, who left us this year, had chosen for his school. Difficult proposal, indeed! Constantly stuck in the small things and hindered by the branches, we can hardly see the tree, much less the forest. But flowing doesn't mean being sloppy; definitely, water is not so, for it doesn't leave any corner uncovered... it reaches everywhere! As asturian people say, "water has a very fine snout". Unhurried, coupling to the circumstances, water is a metaphor for the persistence and extreme adaptability. It's the paradigm of changing in the form without transforming the essence. Although no element is more important than another, we can appreciate the excess or lack of any of them in every moment. And in a world dominated by the element fire, the lack of water, from the physical to the metaphysical, it is a constant perverse; hence the importance of philosophizing about it, of learning from its power and its reasons; hence the importance of putting some of its force in our lives. Water catalyzes life; without water, the land dries and gets barren; and the fire, without

"What we know is a water drop; what we ignore is the ocean.” Isaac Newton a controller, spreads everywhere and the air, turned into a sandstorm, cannot carry the fertility of the clouds, or the force of the changes. Even iron is wrought by the use of fire in the forges! Water is the cradle of all life, the primary livelihood of both inanimate and animate beings, all of them "bags" of hotter and hotter waters, according to their degree of evolution, and adapted to a change that we accompany, of which we are part, and not guilty, as some would have us believe. The "terminal sin" is the Judeo-Christian guilt of environmentalism. Water comforts us, cleanses us, and blesses us. Wet in the rivers of the moment, we swim, fight, wreck... Today fresh water is scarce and becomes precious by default, when it was already precious by virtue. His negative counterpart, infertile and barren for the land because of salt, that is, the oceanic vastness, is slowly dying. The suffocated seas, reheated, landfills, keep the mysteries of the beginning of life and what will be its end. But, polluted and dirty, water keeps cleaning everything, because that is its nature. Flowing, adapting to the barriers, going down, not opposing anything, water is the perfect analogy of humility, adaptation and not conflict. The water wins aimlessly; following its nature, it surrounds any obstacle and teaches us how to overcome, but with wisdom, free from wear and tear, without losing sight of the goal. What is a rock on the road, a mountain…? Even trapped in between cliffs and narrow passages, water filters, or evaporates if such a thing is not possible; nothing stops its destination. It's been the river of life that has left in my shores these texts, which today I share in book format. And I say "it left" because all authorship is at least confusing, since we are all debtors of those before us, those who inspired and keep inspiring us, of the floating clouds of the collective unconscious, and even, who knows!, of the spirits and the consciousness around us. This new book has no continuity, or times, and like all my previous work (already quite a few!), and it can be read from back to front, extemporaneously, or on a whim. Like the water that inspires its title, texts in this work are flooded with a time in transit through my life, where certainties, being few, are affirmed gently, without impositions or excessive enthusiasm. Will it be maturity? Life is something marvelous, an opportunity, a treasure, if we are able to stop our head and feel to accommodate the simple; a ray of autumn sun warming our skin, a drink of water when we are


thirsty, a swim in the sea, a loving caress ... If we cannot appreciate these things, it means we have lost our way, we have denatured the experience of living, and there's no purpose, ideal, or anything that can fill such void. I can't teach anything because I don't know anything, but for those who wish to hear my poems, here I leave my sincere and truly felt thoughts, every time more felt and less thought, because mind is a deceptive device that sees what it wants to see and I’ve learned to be suspicious about it.

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Kung Fu Vincent Lyn: Challenging Heights Text: Ric Meyers Studio photos: Bob Capazzo Other photos: Stace Sanchez

When Vincent Lyn stepped on to the stage of the Boston Conservatory of Music to receive his degree in performance and composition, he may have thought he had reached the heights of his college education. When he won the 1983 and 1984 U.S. National Middleweight -and then the 1985 and 1987 World -- kickboxing championships, he might have thought he had scaled the heights of the martial arts world. When he composed his first top ten hit for the Hong Kong “Cantopop� recording industry, he could have felt that he had achieved the apex of that vocation as well. Then, across the island, when he stepped onto the wind tunnel set for the climatic, milestone fight scene in Jackie Chan's Armour of God 2: Operation Condor, he may have felt there were nowhere higher to go in the Kung Fu film world. In fact, from that height, it might seem that there were no more clarion calls to answer in the outside world. But then he discovered worlds within himself and his family. When he stepped up to accept the mantle of carrying on Ling Gar, his family's form of Kung Fu, he found a life-long legacy to complete. Yet, there was still shadings to his personal, ever changing yin-yang realities. For, while his father's family developed their Kung Fu, his mother's side pursued musical prodigy goals.


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o, when model, actor, teacher, pianist, and composer Vincent Lyn stepped on to the stage of Carnegie Hall, one of the most prestigious concert venues in the world, to perform a concert before a sold out crowd, surely he felt that he had reached the top of all the challenging heights his life, and the world, had to offer. “No,” he says. “It wasn't until I looked into the eyes of an African child I had helped free from modern day slavery that I realized how far I had come … and how far I still have to go.” As Vincent Lyn prepares for his first concert on the beautiful Zankel stage of Carnegie Hall, he's doing it for philanthropist James Kofi Annan's “Challenging Heights” foundation - an organization that pursues freedom, education, protection, and advocacy for children from slavery in Ghana. “All my life I have faced challenging heights,” Lyn says. “But until I met James, and these children, I didn't realize what all my accomplishments were leading to.” It's little wonder that Lyn identifies with the struggles of children. Neither his doctors nor his parents expected him to survive until adolescence. “My father was stationed in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, when I was born,” he explains. “My parents married in England at a time when interracial marriages were almost unheard of … especially for an English woman who had been a musical prodigy on BBC television, marrying a Hakka Chinese engineer who knew sewing machines the way she knew pianos!” Vincent's father was in the military when the future multihyphenate was born -- a sickly child, nearly crippled with asthma. “My father said that the doctors saw no hope for me, and gave my parents the option to let me die in England,” he relates. “But as soon as I got out of the desert, my illnesses completely cleared up!”




Kung Fu But then the bullying started in school, targeted at a still frail, young, half-caste - to whom English school bullies could be particularly venal. Thankfully, the Lyn family's Kung Fu was in Vincent's blood. “It's funny,” he remembers. “My uncles were also like a Kung Fu yin-yang. Uncle Geek-yong was a killer, while uncle Sung-gho was a healer. I remember, as a kid, seeing my peaceful uncle Abak practicing Tai Chi in the back yard, and thinking 'forget it. That doesn't look like Bruce Lee!'” Like so many young men and women, Vincent rebelled against his family teachings to pursue his own dreams and idols. That led to the kickboxing championships throughout the 1980's, and another revelation. “There was a certain satisfaction to trophies and medals and sparring,” Lyn muses. “But I realized that I also wanted to be like Bruce in another way. I wanted to be up there on the movie screen.” So, just like his hero, Lyn moved from America to Asia, where the tall, fit, intense, talented young man found himself doing runway and print ad modeling, as well as commercials. But it was also the “golden age of Hong Kong action cinema,” so some of the greatest directors came knocking. Corey Yuen Kwai cast him as a fighting thug in Blonde Fury, Frankie Chan cast him as a cool killer in Outlaw Brothers, Jamie Luk Kim-ming cast him in the cult classic Robotrix, and the venerated movie legend Yuen Wo-ping cast him as the main villain in his breakthrough comeback film, Tiger Cage. There seemed no where else to go, but then writer, director, producer, choreographer, star, and international cinema icon Jackie Chan came calling for one of his favorite, and best, action sequences - a sequence in which

“My uncles were also like a Kung Fu yin-yang. Uncle Geek-yong was a killer, while uncle Sung-gho was a healer”


Kung Fu Vincent gained the entire crew's respect … by breaking his skull, then refusing to go to the hospital. “Hong Kong cinema is another world!” Lyn laughs. “Since we were supposed to be buffeted by two gigantic fans, the special effects crew hung us by wires and hurled us around. The back of my skull hit one of the walls. They tell me it sounded like a gunshot. They finally got me down and Jackie asks if I'm all right. I open my mouth to reassure him ... and the next thing I know I'm looking up at him -- flat on my back on the set floor. I had been unconscious for half an hour. 'Take a rest,' Jackie told me. 'We'll try it again in fifteen minutes.'” Lyn recuperated as Operation Condor became an international success. But, even though he was at the challenging height of that business, there was something more important he had to do. His mother had been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune disease, and Vincent rushed back to America to help take care of her. “Just as they had for me,” Lyn remembers, “the doctors gave her little to no hope. They said she only had months to live. It was how we reacted that made the difference, and opened up a whole new world of Kung Fu to me.” The Lyns responded with Easter n inter nal medicine, including acupuncture. Vincent's work with the greats of Kung Fu cinema, as well as

“Lyn recuperated as Operation Condor became an international success. But, even though he was at the challenging height of that business, there was something more important he had to do.”




Kung Fu his own family lineage, prepared him for the next step in his scaling the challenging heights. “Everything my father, uncle, and grandfather had shown me came together,” he elaborates, “and it was like I had been practicing all my life. At the age of seventy, my uncle Sung-go was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was the size of a golf ball, protruding out of his head. They also gave him about six months to live. But he had been studying Tai Chi and Qi Gong since he was a boy. He went back to the doctors about nine months later, and they couldn't believe that the tumor had all but disappeared. He lived until he was eighty-eight.” Vincent's mother, too, survived way past the doctors' estimates, and attended all of his Carnegie Hall concerts decades later. But before Vincent reached that vaunted theater, he knew what else he had to do: teach his family style to others. “As I thought about the future, I realized I am the last teacher of Ling Gar that we know of in the world,” Vincent declares. “My family's style of Chinese Martial Arts dates back to 1368. It has never been taught outside the family. It was time.” One of the results of Lyn's decision was the book, Kung Fu in the Real World: The Ling Gar Legacy, published in 2009. “I have realized that without the internal practice martial arts are extremely limited, “Vincent explains. “It makes me appreciate all the more the high skill my Uncle Abak had. He was light years ahead of me and, I am humbled to say, compared to him I'm still a beginner. I only wish I had paid more attention to him as a boy. Yet, better late than never. Because of his paramount skill in the internal arts and healing powers of Chinese Medicine, I knew I was destined to follow in his footsteps.” In the years since the book, those footsteps led Lyn to one triumph after another. Ten times inducted into international martial arts halls of fame. Appearances in more than two hundred publications around the world. Bringing home a Gold Medal from the Martial Arts Olympics. A concert performance in Russia in front of

“I have realized that without the internal practice martial arts are extremely limited, “Vincent explains. “It makes me appreciate all the more the high skill my Uncle Abak had. He was light years ahead of me and, I am humbled to say, compared to him I'm still a beginner.



Kung Fu twenty thousand people. Several best-selling jazz fusion albums. Multiple Grammy Award nominations. And, of course, sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall. But that was not all. Throughout his climb, Lyn wanted to give more than just music and acting. In 2003, he founded the Pro-Force Security Corporation to help protect people as an expert in threat assessment and defensive tactics -- becoming a licensed private investigator, certified police instructor, and air marshal trainer. It was through this other, yang, side of his work that he met James Kofi Annan. “This man,” Lyn maintains, “this remarkable man -- who escaped after ten years of slavery in Ghana -- went on to become a hugely successful banker. But he resigned from that business to create 'Challenging Heights' - an organization that rescues children. As soon as I met him, and he showed me what he was doing, I knew I had to help.” Dedicating his latest Carnegie Hall concert to Annan and Challenging Heights is only the beginning, as far as Vincent Lyn is concerned. “Have I come full circle, trying to help people the way I was helped and the way James does?” he asks. “No. Just as the yin-yang symbol never goes full circle, I, too, will just keep climbing, growing exponentially as a martial artist, musician, and human being -- accepting that internal and external health is attained and maintained by a combination of mind, body, and spirit. “Join me, and James,” he concludes. “Come help.” Ric Meyers is an award-winning author, writer, screenwriter, and professor of what is now termed Buyao Shanghai Ziji Kung-Fu.



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Yes it was/is real There it is circled in red on the page of the old "Wu Bei Zhi" (also known as "Bubishi")... so what is it exactly? Well the truth is no one can say absolutely what it was as the individual that placed it there is long gone as was his thoughts or original intent of inclusion. It appears as a tutorial of an ancient warriors experience in the combative and healing arts of his time. There pictured as part of the "6 Ji Hands" (六 機 手 Liù Jī S h ǒu ) , t h e w e a p o n s o f t h e manual in order to attack the Crucial or Vital targets of the human body (a partial list also added in the manual). These 6 Ji Hands are depicted throughout the manual and are essential to understanding or applying to the Martial Targets also contained in the text. Now with these hands, it is not merely in the formation, it is in the skill of deployment that is the Vital Point. It is a method to make each hand or more correctly; each striking surface application, far more penetrating with greater energetic (kinetic force),



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transference into the deeper anatomical structures. Unfortunately the individual that included these hands in the old treatise did not include this applicational aspect. So the actual use cannot be determined by anyone, merely speculated on... so the proof of value comes then only from DEMONSTRATED application, affect and therefore use. The Blood Pool Hand position is depicted in many arts (with derivative branches) and with varying capacity, some styles like Wing Chun name it Fook Sao and use it primarily as a re-direct or hooking method, Pangainoon (UechiRyu) call it Koken Tsuki (bent wrist strike) or Kanushiken (finger tip strike from this cupped hand position) which primarily uses this hand position as a striking weapon and styles like Praying Mantis call it (螳螂勾 Tángláng Ggōu) using it as both catching and hitting. It can a l s o b e s e e n i n Ta i C h i , W h i t e Crane, Goju Ryu and many other styles from China, Okinawa and even, but in lesser extent in Korean arts. The name is not important, how you use it is the vital point. Do not read further if you still believe in Pressure Points... over time and much experience we have found that Kyusho is not pressure points, read at your own risk.


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“Now with these hands, it is not merely in the formation, it is in the skill of deployment that is the Vital Point.�


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The Blood Pool Hand – forward rotational transference This is for more powerful and percussive attack for many targets. It is better suited than the other hands for deeper penetration into the body targets or cavity using the forward rotational motion of the first two knuckles. However we cannot (as in all of the hand positions) negate the possibilities for poking, pulling or compressing type actions of the fingertips, or folding action of the palm. Some targets like those just under the collarbone warrant, a deeper rolling (to stretch and compress), action. Interestingly as the name depicts “Blood Pool Hand� it was a tool used in the attack of vascular tissue or organs where the blood actually pools. This could adversely affect or damage the Spleen, Liver, Kidney or even the Heart. Or as in the first target mentioned, (under the collarbone) is crucial vascular tissue to and from the Heart such as the Aortic or Jugular Arches. These are the more obvious attacks some may classify as Yang striking or compression type of attack. But as we always say there are two possibilities of Yin and Yang in all martial moves, the Blood Pool Hand again has both, but few see it. As YOU look at the formation the hand with a quick action, YOU can realize 3 directional actions in the extension and rotation of this hand. Now as we understand the body can cope with equal or consistent attack far easier than staggered and alternating pressures (this is one of the Major keys to Kyusho). So as you extend the hand forward at a neck target, side of the sternocleidomastoid muscle as example, first contacting the target area with the base of the palm in a forward action much like a simple one directional strike, you place acute neurological message transference to the brain. If you strike hard enough, you will also affect the vascular tissue responsible for bringing blood and oxygen to and from the brain. As the fingers withdraw in the rotation mentioned above, the fingers and inside of the palm add alternating (with staggered timing) pressures on other nerves, which also send energetic message to the brain with shocking, yet alternating acuity. (By the way you do not need to know or memorize any of this to make it work, hit them correctly in the right place and they fall down, no specific "Pressure Points" are needed as the underlying


Evan Pantazi structures are long and have a greater attack area than the "Pressure Point" guys realize). If the Blood Pool Hand is done properly in this area you will have disrupted blood, air and nerve flow... the human body simply cannot function correctly and will collapse to regain the stasis or balance the human system requires. We can take a few pages and depictions of Vital Target Attack from the Bubishi itself and describe how the pictured Blood Pool Hand will function in them: Example 1: We see the Blood Pool Hand used by the figure on the right by the midinner thigh. Variations can be seen in several old Kata like Seipai with the actual Blood Pool Hand or in fisted position. The most obvious blood and nerve attack (using the forward rotational action of the first two knuckles to stretch, compress and or concuss) are at a superficial level (closer to surface) the Great Saphenous Vein and Anterior Cutaneous Branches of the Femoral Nerve. On a deeper level, There is the Femoral Artery, Femoral Vein and the Saphenous Nerve. How many of these you will reach or affect will depend upon the force transference used and trajectory of the attack This target used on only one leg will cause pain, dysfunction of the leg and altered states of consciousness from the restriction of blood (resulting in a drop of blood pressure) or neurological shock. Both may be used simultaneously, but with less accuracy, force and actual affect. So it is for the reader to determine whether or not both these illustrations of the opponents are working both simultaneously, or are they just showing that the tool may be applied on either side of the body. Which hand would be used would then be dictated by the opponents position during a given situation. The area of attack is 8 - 12 inches long (NOT A SINGLE POINT), Kyusho is not pressure points, they are vital targets however long or short they may be. Kyusho is also not pressure; it is an attack on the anatomical structures. This is demonstrated with two Blood Pool Hands (for Silver Subscribers) at this webpage ( Click Here )

“Now as we understand the body can cope with equal or consistent attack far easier than staggered and alternating pressures (this is one of the Major keys to Kyusho)�


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Example 2: We see the Blood Pool Hand used by the figure on the right in the neck region causing the opponents head to pull back. An exact posture from Panginoon’s Seisan and Sanseiryu Katas. Now it can be argued also that the Right figure is using a Blood Pool hand on the opponents wrist as well. This could be another type of grip, but it is not illustrated as such... but needless to say this could be a compression of vascular, nerve or both on the opponents wrist to cause increased messaging and or impediment of blood flow... or merely clearing the way for the fully demonstrated Blood Pool Hand. Getting back to the attack that is clearly the stated hand, this can be used as a stabbing type attack with the finger tips to attack the nerve and blood vessels at this area, however if you were to attack this target (an area 2 inches long and not a specific "Pressure Point", the opponents head (in the upright posture) would tilt down, not back on impact. (Only real application on many individuals can give you this insight not readily seen in an old drawing... or mere speculative talk). The answer is not in "Pressure Points", the natural underlying anatomical structures are the real target not a theoretical point designated by man lying on further theoretical man made lines. When we look at what is really there and where the fingers really point, we see that the typical ST-9 point is not the target. The fingers depicted

are under the jaw, to the side of the throat and the angle of attack slightly upward... so what is "Really" there? Well on the more superficial or exterior layers of the anatomy there are the; External Carotid Artery, the nerve called the Ansa Cervicalis, and the Retromandibular Artery. Deeper in and depending on the force issued on the attack are the; External Jugular Vein, The Superior Ansa Cervicalis, Internal Carotid Artery and the Hypoglossal Nerve. Deeper yet lay the; Vagus (The heart is innervated by vagal and sympathetic fibers. The right vagus nerve primarily innervates the SA node, whereas the left vagus innervates the AV node) and Superior Cervical Ganglion (of nerve). Stabbing with great force to this area could damage any or all of these Vital Structures and cause many physiological impairments or cessations. As we see the elbow also ramming into the heart, diaphragm (an organ where blood pools) and Liver (another organ where blood pools) this could be a serious or fatal type of attack. To view a safer version of this epic posture Click Here The Blood Pool Hand is one of the 6 Ji Hands which are not only the weapon or tool itself, but the rotational application. They are one of the attribute skills in the full body change encompassed in the ancient text. Remember it is not what you call it that matters in tool or targets, what matters is knowing where the target is and how to attack it. The reality is in the experience, not the theory or talk.


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“The Blood Pool Hand position is depicted in many arts (with derivative branches) and with varying capacity.�






CONCEPTS Why would you want to learn Latosa-Escrima? Freedom to be creative

What makes Latosa-Escrima different from other Filipino martial arts? You, understanding the five basic concepts, and discovery. YOU make Latosa-Escrima different. Pure and simple, anything that is effective and logical starts with the individual. The way that a person thinks and their perception of reality. This means whether the individual believes what they are practicing is for their own protection, or to justify and analyze the “what if's�. Do they know the bottom-line of why they practice the martial arts? The peripheral value is also important such as the exercise, the aerobics, tradition, confidence and the uniformity of structure, but what is the objective of learning the martial arts. What is the number one priority? Is it to protect yourself and your loved ones, or to achieve a rank or level that signifies that you are knowledgeable. That my friend is a decision that you have to make. You have to feel confident that what you are practicing, really works against various attacks and attackers.



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Latosa-Escrima tries to bridge between the physical application and the conceptual way of thinking. The number one priority of Latosa-Escrima is to be able to execute offensive and defensive movements against the unknown factors of an attack. The goal is to balance the two worlds, not to just state that it works because of a specific technique, or because someone said that this is the way it is done, but to bring out the creativity and the freedom to think as the situation is escalating. In most practices, if you change the technique, you can run the risk of being accused of not being loyal or changing the system and in some cases “trying to find your own way”, heaven forbid! Humans are tenacious, which is why there are so many technology start-up companies. A person must be allowed the freedom to be innovative and creative in finding their way. LatosaEscrima gives individuals the freedom to express your creativity without judgment! In Latosa-Escrima you are encouraged to focus more on your way of thinking, how you perceive things, and less on following a structure. The Latosa-Escrima approach provides you a foundation and basic structure. From there the structure changes into coaching you to understand risk factors and advantages and how to react you're your eye on the objective. A coach or teacher is not 100% correct and 100% all knowing, and the truth of the matter is they learn from you. Latosa-Escrima is a creative workshop where you as an individual must determine the advantages and the

risks of the execution of movement. In the real world, it is no longer a game or a practice where you are allowed “do overs”. My objective to Latosa-Escrima is to allow the students to find their way, discover what works, understand what is a fantasy/sterile attack. The attack should have the same elements related to the concepts of Latosa-Escrima. . The Latosa's Escrima five basic concepts are used to test the techniques and offensive attacks to determine whether they are effective and structurally sound. Balance: Balance is the overriding concept in this system. It is a prerequisite to the proper functioning of all the others. Nothing can be accomplished reliably if you are off-balance--in the martial arts. Power: The student trains his/her body to apply devastating power through any weapon without the need for excessive acceleration distance. Through proper body mechanics, one can achieve an extremely high level of e.g. striking power with a stick, even when the strike begins only a few inches away from the target. There is no need to "swing" the stick in order to hit hard. As a result, you gain economy of motion, which allows you to strike immediately from any position without loss of time in wind-up. It also allows extremely fast successive strikes, as the stick does


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“A person must be allowed the freedom to be innovative and creative in finding their way. Latosa-Escrima gives individuals the freedom to express your creativity without judgment!�

not need to withdraw far in order to accelerate again. Short power, as it is generated from the body itself and thus does not depend on the motion characteristics of the particular weapon, may be applied through any object or mobile body part. In self-defense, and in life, it allows one to act immediately, from wherever one is at the moment, without preparation, instantly and effectively. Zoning or zone hitting, which is ensuring that your strike goes through the intended target and not beyond so as to maintain safe positioning and control of the weapon, is an element of short power. (Offensive) Focus: A Latosa Escrimador is always focused on the goal, not the obstacles in the way. Visual and physical focus should be centered on the target of your attack, not on the weapons of the enemy. The student is trained to direct 100% of his/her energy toward the target, leaving extraneous issues to effective peripheral awareness. The goal is always to conquer the enemy's command center, rather than to chase after his troops. In this way, the Escrimador is offensive in defense. The "So What" theory, in which the Escrimador symbolically says "So What?" to the blocks and feints of the enemy while simply pressing forward with his/her own attack, is an element of offensive focus.


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Speed (timing and distance): Useful speed does not stem primarily from how fast one can move one's limbs, but from how precisely one can sense the proper time to initiate an action and how accurately one can judge the distance the action must cover. Relatively slow, economical movements executed with perfect timing and distancing will defeat extremely fast, wide movements executed at the wrong time and at the wrong distance.

circumstances is useful also in realms other than selfdefense.

Likewise, in life, acting efficiently at the right time and place is far better than acting excessively at the wrong moment. The Latosa Escrima student is trained to read the subtlest movements, tensions, and attitudes of a potential enemy's body so as to be one step ahead of the enemy's intentions and timing. This is a critical element of speed.

dangerous situations. (This attitude may sometimes outwardly resemble anger, but it is in fact deeper and far more constructive.) In the process, the student learns to deal with and to a great extent control the physiological effects of stress, prevent panic, maintain mental clarity under pressure, and generally work through bad situations. Additionally, the self-confidence fostered by realistic training permeates all areas of life. Explosiveness is an element of every one of the main concepts, and refers to the ability to transition instantly and effortlessly from a state of stillness to movement or from one type of movement to another type of movement. This ability is very much affected by mental attitude.

Transition (to any weapon/situation): Latosa Escrima teaches a very small, simple repertoire of movement concepts and strategy that applies to any weapon in any situation. This allows the Escrimador to react flexibly and efficiently to any self-defense situation, without confusion or technical thought. This ability to spontaneously adapt to

Sub-concept:Attitude: The student learns to channel distracting and debilitating emotions such as fear and rage into a performance-enhancing mental attitude conducive to overcoming the m o s t


Latosa Escrima “A coach or teacher is not 100% correct and 100% all knowing, and the truth of the matter is they learn from you.�


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ARNOLD CLASSIC EUROPE 2015 The 5th edition of the multi-sport event Arnold Classic Europe (ACE) took place in Madrid, Spain, from 25 until 27th of last September. As in previous editions, the event was held again in Madrid Arena Multipurpose Pavilion and the Glass Pavilion, counting for the first time with the Multipurpose Pavilion II. Success was such that it caused some problems of capacity: the premises became too small to accommodate almost 75,000 visitors who came to this multisport festival.


fans attended the Many bodybuilding fitness, Martial Arts and contact sports demonstrations, plus 30 other disciplines, such as pole dance, cheerleaders, crossfit, r u b i k , s t r e e t w o r k o u t , p a r k o u r, armwrestling, dancefit, rope jumping, BMX, strongman, bodytone spinning master class, powerlifting, streeetworkout, etc.

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n this occasion, over 24,000 square meters were dedicated to the Expo fair, with many different nutrition and sportswear companies, both national and inter national, supplementation and food stands, sports academies, federations, etc. The 3rd Edition of the Arnold Fighters (AF3) far exceeded expectations both in the Pro-Show, as in the Combat Games, as well as other activities that took place in Madrid Arena Satellite Pavilion. The AF3 was one of the events that had had more promotion in the media over these past few months thanks to Arnold Fighters Girls competition, which brought together over 200 competitors of all ages, sexes and grades. This event is considered a benchmark in Europe in terms of Martial Arts and Combat Sports, becoming a must for anyone who likes martial disciplines, whether traditional or modern, historical or recent, exhibition or competition, in tatami or in the ring, amateur or professional. The novelty of this 5th edition of ACE on September 27 was the meeting of the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with his fans. Many had the pleasure of attending the event in which one of the most famous Hollywood stars, besides being the bodybuilding and fitness image worldwide, answered all questions for an hour in the theater auditorium of the Casa de Campo. In addition, 50 lucky fans had the opportunity to take a picture with his idol for the price of 500 euros. The actor also received reporters on Friday September 25th. He was accompanied by a large group of people who sat in reserved seats in the front rows. The event took place at 19 pm in Room 18 of Torre Espacio, one of the tallest buildings in Madrid. Here it was shown that the actor is a close and friendly man with a great sense of humor. This time, he put aside his cinematic facet and he practically spoke only of sports and ACE 15.

Text: Mónica Gail Rodríguez & Pedro Conde. Photos: Alejandro Jesús Gil del Val & Antonio Moral.

“At the beginning I was interested in becoming the most muscular man in the world and I won world several bodybuilding championships; but, after that, I realized that I shouldn't lift weights just for me, but for the sake of sports and bodybuilding.”


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This is what Arnold told us: Budo International: As we know, you're here for the ACE 15. Could you tell us about the fifth edition of the Arnold Classic, to which you give your image? Arnold Schwarzenegger: It is a great honor and a great pleasure to be

here in Spain for the Arnold Classic. I've been competing in bodybuilding since he was 16 and Rafael Santoja always says that I have been one of the banners of this competition ... Well, I'm perhaps the most famous, but of course, I'm not the most important, because this event is possible thanks to the endeavors of people like him, who are working every day in all the details thereof. This is possible only because we have someone like my companion, who has been extremely clever in creating a team in Columbus, Ohio, and making the North American version of the Arnold Classic world championship. And Barbara, my daughter, who has been slowly taking over in the last 10 years, has become a very important fellow worker. It's great to have the wisdom of Jim and count on these aggressive, active and energetic young people. It’s people like this that make people like us want to participate. And we're delighted to be here in Spain. I just came from the Oktoberfest, a wonder that I love, and there I was with a friend who directs bodybuilding in Germany, Albert Busek, sitting right here, and he's been one of the organizers of the European Championships, World Championships, Miss Germany, Mr. Germany and all sorts of events, and of course, one of the best magazines. It has also been my personal friend.

So I spent time with him and we went to the Oktoberfest. We had some beers, sausages and all kinds of greasy food. So, it's good now be talking about health and fitness in this press conference where we can burn all that excess fat ... (laughs) B.I.: Why the Arnold Classic? A.S.: At the beginning I was interested in becoming the most muscular man in the world and I won world several bodybuilding championships; but, after that, I realized that I shouldn't lift weights just for me, but for the sake of sports and bodybuilding. Of course, at first people said that I was wasting my time, because they didn't like lifting weights or didn't want to look themselves at the mirror. Other people said that I would become stupid or gay. And of course, there were all those comments about the adverse health effects and all that junk... But today all this has become a critical success factor and there is no hotel in the world where I go and don't have a fitness center or a gym at my disposal; there is no military base in which there are no facilities to lift weights, police stations, fire departments... In every university or college, all teams, in all places, including hospitals, they have resistance treatments with weight for handicapped and injured people. As you can see, everything has


completed an enormous about-turn and bodybuilding has become one of the world's most practiced activities. B.I.: Which are your goals? A.S.: For me it's a real pleasure to be for the fifth year in this event, which is getting better. Firstly it's the exhibition itself, which is becoming bigger, and means that our crusade for health and fitness has become very famous. The aim of the Ar nold Classic is promoting health and fitness among the general public. So, those of us who have been in many competitions know that there are many ways to get in shape and we want people to choose. The idea is that of inspiring them to exercise daily, especially if it's

something that the family can enjoy together, like taking their children outdoors to play football or tennis, go swimming or whatever they want to do, but do something. Because every time we see somebody who is not fit, we always want to help the person to live longer and improve his or her life quality. That's what fitness and bodybuilding mean. B.I.: What do you like best about Madrid? Is there any special place that you'd like to visit? A.S.: Definitely the Arnold Classic. And this is the place that I will visit this weekend, because there's going to be more than 75,000 people and we will see many competitions. We'll see who is the most muscular man in the world, the winner of the strongest


Interview man contest; who will take the trophy for best woman body and much more ... So this is the place where I'd like to be. B.I.: What bodybuilding values are ??applied in the everyday? A.S.: There are many things we can lear n from bodybuilding... or sports in general. For example, I've learned that the harder you work, the better you feel. There are no shortcuts; if you train very hard and very disciplined, you will succeed. And that applies to everything in life. He who seeks shortcuts will fail. I learned with discipline. In bodybuilding, if you don't train every day you can't become a world champion. If you want to be good at something, it doesn't matter whether you want to be an engineer, a doctor or the president, you have to be disciplined, work hard and do all the time. Working with people is very important: teamwork. When someone says that he has made himself, it sounds good but it doesn't make sense. No one has done himself; we all have been made by someone. If my parents had not been on me since I was a kid, or my coaches and training partners, my nutritionist expert ... or if America had not been there to receive me with open arms ... All these people and countries have helped me ... I know some people say I've done it on my own, even some people say I made myself. But it's not the case‌ that is something that you learn very quickly in sports, even in bodybuilding, because you can't do it alone. Together we can, and it's very important that people that have learned this, like me, teach others. Life is not only about collecting,


“Life is not only about collecting, but also returning favors, and we have to maintain a good balance because we will not be remembered for what we did but for what we gave.�


but also returning favors, and we have to maintain a good balance because we will not be remembered for what we did but for what we gave. This is one of the messages I have learned in bodybuilding, that have helped me in my movie business and allowed me develop my career in everything I've done. If you don't have a vision of the whole thing, you're not going anywhere. You can have the best aircraft in the world, but if the pilot doesn't know where to go ... you will end up in the middle of nowhere. B.I.: What is the training routine that you are currently following? A.S.: Today, my good friend Albert woke me up early in the morning, he knocked on the room door and told me he had two bikes and we were going to ride them. We were in Munich and went for a morning bike ride of a couple of hours up and down the hills. That was today, but I normally do 45 minutes cardio and then weight training for another 45 minutes. I usually make a training session in the morning and another in the afternoon. Sometimes I do cardio in the morning, others I train weights, but I always try to stay active. Even when I'm rolling a film or when we are filming night scenes, at least we always find some time at midnight or even at 4 in the morning to do some weights on the set. B.I.: Would it be possible that you make an autobiographical film? A.S.: Yes, but not now... it's not one of the things that are on my schedule or my upcoming projects.

“I've learned that the harder you work, the better you feel. There are no shortcuts; if you train very hard and very disciplined, you will succeed. And that applies to everything in life. He who seeks shortcuts will fail. I learned with discipline.�


“At first people said that I was wasting my time, because they didn't like lifting weights or didn't want to look themselves at the mirror. Other people said that I would become stupid or gay. And of course, there were all those comments about the adverse health effects and all that junk... But today all this has become a critical success factor and there is no hotel in the world where I go and don't have a fitness center or a gym at my disposal.�








In this DVD, Master Marco Morabito, with exclusive rights for Budo International, presents a preview of the Israeli Krav Maga Survival System. In this colossal work, the basic method and techniques of this discipline are illustrated in a clear and transparent manner. That is, no secrets, but in an extraordinary job that will take you to the very core of self-defense. The techniques are illustrated so that they are easily understood by all. A truly unique opportunity to approach selfdefense or improve your knowledge on the subject. The author is one of today’s top self-defense exponents worldwide and has to his credit an extensive experience both in the military field and in security companies; awarded several times in various countries and acclaimed by his courses and seminars around the world, he has become an international spokesperson for different combat and self-defense systems, little known but highly effective. He has learned and studied all over the world, from Japan to the US, via Poland, Spain, Cape Verde, Germany, Israel, France and Russia, a continued research in remote areas of the world, such as Siberia or the desert of Texas, without stopping at any point in his tireless search for new knowledge without ever stop asking questions. The Israeli Krav Maga Survival System is not a discipline or a set of rigid rules, but a method, a process of continuous and constant evolution. This makes it adaptable to any situation and circumstance and permeable to any changes, and then be able to take stock of its mistakes and use the experience as an opportunity to improve.

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Brazilian Jiu Jitsu TRIANGLE-ACADEMY Gracie Jiu-Jitsu The Vacirca History Part 1 Š 2015/2016 Franco Vacirca, Sandra Gehriger-Nagel

As a child, I loved so much Martial Arts that I soon knew how my pathway through life would be. After having trained Judo for a couple of years, in the winter of 1979 I came into contact with Win Tsun, a style of Kung Fu. Through the former films of Bruce Lee, a first wave of Kung Fu was created in Switzerland, and so emerged many schools that seized every opportunity to promote themselves. Many of them claimed they taught the famous fighting style of Bruce Lee, "Jeet-Kune Do", which at that time was not true, but this was something that hardly anyone knew.



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or my eleventh birthday, in April 1980, my father took us for a ride to Zurich Airport, which in a sense was going to become our Sunday morning activity. Then we stopped by a kiosk, he told us that this time we could choose our own magazine. While I was rummaging through the shelves of magazines, I suddenly found an English magazine that showed a man dressed completely in black in the cover. Carefully I leafed through the magazine, but I couldn't understand a single word. In the images, however, I could recognize at once that it was a Martial Arts magazine. I hurried to show it to my father. He just smiled and asked me since when did I understand English; I just nodded waiting that he paid for the magazine I had chosen, as he had promised. When I got home, I took my father's English-German dictionary, that was as big as a Swiss army knife, and thus I started translating the article on the mysterious "black man". Thus, I began to teach myself the English language. I also began to copy what interested me and eventually I created my own "Book of Martial Arts", in which I collected the articles translated by me. I still keep some of the articles and texts that I gathered in those years and that have helped me from time to time to learn about the true and great masters of Martial Arts. From that moment we were almost every Sunday at that kiosk and soon the magazine retailer, a sympathetic lady, started keeping apart my copies. Some months there were no magazines from the United States, but other times, on the contrary, there were two copies arriving on the same week, which increased greatly my excitement.



Brazilian Jiu Jitsu One night, my father had just written some business letters and his new typewriter was on the dining table. It was a brand-new Olivetti, a real pride for the whole family. So much so that if it had only breathed, we would have to include it as a younger sister! I asked my father if I could use the typewriter. With a big smile he said yes and then he explained to me how to use it correctly without breaking it. After a thorough instruction that seemed to last an eternity, I took a sheet of paper and inserted carefully in the typewriter, and then I began to copy the translations of my scratch pad. Soon I stopped writing my translations by hand and then with the typewriter, to start typing them directly on the paper. At first, my parents were excited about it, because by my interest in Martial Arts, I was learning English and typewriting. But their enthusiasm would quickly fade when I continued fingering on the typewriter in the afternoon or sometimes even at night and nobody could fall asleep because of the noise. Some weeks later, as I was watching my father answering the letters he had received from customers and suppliers, I came up with a new idea. Without knowing exactly how to write a letter correctly, I decided to write one myself. So I started writing my Martial Arts idols of the American magazines. One of the first whom I wrote, was, of course, the "man in black", who was a famous expert in Ninjutsu, Stephen K. Hayes, and who lived in Ohio. In fact, he was an absolute expert of this Japanese Martial Art, and I was so much fascinated by any of the articles he wrote that I saw myself as a real Ninja in my dreams. Another person was, of course, Sifu Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee's best known training partner, who had his Kali Academy in Santa Monica, California. Obviously, most of my letters remained unanswered, probably because my English was so poor at the time that the recipient did not understand my writing. My lovely mom was from Madrid, so we used to spend summer holidays with the family almost every two years with my grandmother María in the big city until I was 16 years old. Because my father was a big car lover and he always had great cars with powerful engines, we toured every year more than 2,000 kilometers from Zurich to Madrid, or visited his parents in Syracuse, Sicily. Usually, the trip lasted two days with an overnight stay at a hotel in the middle of the stage, except if my parents had planned otherwise, for example, visiting different places along the Côte d'Azur, or even go directly to Madrid to visit both families during the same summer. At that time, Madrid, like London and Paris, was already one of three European centers for Asian Martial Arts. In the Spanish magazine "Cinturón Negro" (Black Belt) I read that Sifu Dan Inosanto, the personal training companion of Martial Arts legend Bruce Lee, was on his way to England to take the first training seminars there. That led me to London for the first time, where the first Jeet-Kune-Do and Kali training groups in Europe had been formed. With José María Fraguas, the first Spanish private student of Inosanto, my brother Demetrius and I trained intensively the disciplines of Jeet-Kune-Do (JKD) Concepts, Muay-Thai Boxing (from Grandmaster Surachai "Chai" Sirisute) and the Philippino Kali-Eskrima (stick and



Brazilian Jiu Jitsu knife fighting). In the spring of 1988, under his supervision, we founded the first JunFan / Kali-JKD-Muay Thai training group in Switzerland and a year later, Grand Master "Chai" Sirisute visited our academy. From the beginning, I was so fascinated with the charisma of Grand Master “Chai” and his high quality Thai Boxing that I concentrated all my training in that discipline until 1996. After another training trip to Los Angeles in the spring of 1989, having trained for several months at the Inosanto Academy in Santa Monica with Sifu Paul Vunak, founder of the Progressive Fighting Systems (PFS), I decided, along with my brother Demetrius to found an academy of our own from the existing training group. At first, we found the possibility of renting a place from a friend to integrate our group. We called the school the Vacirca Academy of Martial Arts (VAMA) and it was located in a courtyard in the Binzmühlestrasse in Zurich-Oerlikon. During that time, I also met people who worked in security or were police agents, and so our new program PFS / JeetKune-Do, with the Filipino Kali and Muay Thai Boxing seemed perfect for teaching. JKD Grappling, a "form of ring" according to the JKD concept, also found its site. For that, I traveled in the autumn of that year to New York and then to Los Angeles to train with Sifu Larry Hartsell, the absolute JKD-Grappling expert. And so, from our first small training group, an independent Martial Arts academy was formed. Then we started to be increasingly visited by a variety of interested people from both inside Zurich and abroad, and some soon started to organize a lot of JKD / Kali seminars in Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece and, of course, Switzerland. From the beginning a lot of students had to commute from the Zug area to training in Zurich, so we decided to resettle our academy in that region, but before long we had to return to Zurich for workrelated purposes, where we integrated the school in the place of a friend and training partner of many years, (Pentjak Silat) Guru Livio Altorfer. Read how our story continues in the next edition of Budo International... www.vacircajiujitsu.ch




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Wing Tsun Universe

WTU Wing Tsun Phase One: We develop the base, the natural structure of the body, by TRAINING seven qualities: • Attention • Elasticity • Balance • Sensitivity • Full-Motion • Timing • Intention Phase Two: We develop an understanding of the 3 principles and 4 interactions of the WTU movement. Three principles: • Allow Contact • Accompany movement • Avoid distance 4 interactions: • Gravitational interaction • Weak interaction • Strong interaction • Magnetic Interaction Phase Three: Opening of the functions of the two fighting movement concepts. Fighting concept 1: Wave / dual wave Fighting concept 2: Tornado / double twister




Wing Tsun Universe

Problems of the human movement: Man is not free in his movements; he really moves by preset patterns. He is locked in a cage. Not that he is unable to move freely, but he does what he is used to do, according to what his nerves were activated for. 1. Movements cannot be controlled without great efforts and hard training. 2. They cannot be coordinated and... 3. Probably it affects and degrades in most cases also the quality of movement, elasticity, balance, etc. What is the problem that this engenders? Being conditioned to respond to something (either at an intellectual, physical or emotional level) means that reality cannot be perceived, and we are acting as "machines". Under these conditions, man lacks free will and is not able to make a conscious decision; he cannot control his life, he can't think clearly, but he is carrying a machine with a distorted perceptive association about himself and the world. This limitation involves problems of physical movement. Since man feels better in his comfort zone (in which he is most of the time), he maintains this position even when he is not sitting at his table. Therefore, even standing, many people are bent forward, his shoulders slumped. The human body can no longer be free to adapt to the "here and now" but it retains the same skeletal muscle structure, because in fact it has constantly been "training" for it. We motivate people! HAIL!

“Being conditioned to respond to something (either at an intellectual, physical or emotional level) means that reality cannot be perceived, and we are acting as machines.�










Weng Chun in Fatshan, China 30 Degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit). High humidity. I feel my wet T-shirt on my skin and continue to batter the wooden dummy in front of me. Dust, hay and straw are whirled through the air with every punch. It is actually the living room of a farmhouse, but at the same time it is a Kung Fu- school, here in some little Chinese village in Fatshan. There is no shower here; instead, I have to contend myself with a bucket of water. The toilet is a simple hole behind the barn. And at night, thousands of mosquitoes pounce on me. For the Chinese people in the village I am apparently the greatest attraction imaginable, and it seems like everybody awaits his chance to pull the hair on my arms, because hardly anyone of them has ever met a Westerner face to face. Time and again, I am very touched by their cordiality and kindness. Because I cannot tolerate the food very well, I basically live (and train) on coke and chocolate. As soon as they have noticed my particular diet, they provide me every morning with a bottle of coke and chocolate right at my doorstep, and they spare no effort to obtain it from quite far away.

Fotos: Andreas Hoffmann. Budo International, Text: Andreas Hoffmann, Christoph FuĂ&#x;



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y master in those days during the 1980s was Sifu Pak Cheung, who originated from a rich family. Due to the cultural revolution in China, he later was sent here, and continued to practice Weng Chun in secrecy. I am well aware how lucky I am to have been trained personally by one of the last Grandmasters of Weng Chun Kung Fu in his home. His own teacher was the legendary Grandmaster Tang Shuin, who had introduced Weng Chun in Hong Kong in the years before the Second World War. Later he returned to Canton, where he taught the police, before he took up residence in

his native place called Tang village in Fatshan. One day, he was visited there by the wealthy parents of Pat Cheung, who entrusted Tang Shuin with the Kung Fu education of their son. Pak Cheung became one of his most important Kung Fu- successors, and still today, Weng Chun practitioners from Pak Cheung s Kung Fu- lineage can be found in Fatshan and its environs. Grandmaster Pak Cheung instructed me day-to-day in the use of the double knives, the Six and a Half Point Pole, the Eight Trigrams Long Pole, the “Earth” Wooden Dummy, as well as in the unarmed form of Weng Chun Kuen. In his martial arts program, he set a high value on free sparring,

“I am well aware how lucky I am to have been trained personally by one of the last Grandmasters of Weng Chun Kung Fu in his home.”



particularly on bridging the wide distance into close distance. In contrast, Chi Sao, i.e. the practice of Sticking Hands that we have intensely trained in Hong Kong, was less important to him. According to his point of view, in a real combat situation the phase of contact was very short, and therefore he rather deemed Kiu Sao, free sparring, as crucial for developing combat skills. Toward evening, his Chinese private students as well as friendly Kung Fu- masters from the surrounding area usually joined us for mutual exchange and to practice sparring with me. On such occasions I was especially looking forward to Pak Cheung s mater student and successor, Kam. He used to attack me rather vigorously, and generally was very dedicated to Weng Chun Kung Fu. Grandmaster Pak Cheung furthermore had learned Wing Chun as well as Hung Gar, and he inspired me on my path with many tips and suggestions. In particular, he helped me to better understand the difference between the Weng Chun from Hong Kong and that from mainland China. I found it such a pity that neither his son and grandchildren, nor any of the people from the village have learned Weng Chun. However, at this time I could observe everywhere in China how the interest in Chinese Kung Fu was declining more and more in its very country of origin, and how this cultural heritage of China was no longer being esteemed by its own people as it would have been appropriate, given the historical importance and the manifold benefits for the practitioner. However, all the more this great significance is well recognized in the western world, where many people show great commitment in learning and passing on the various styles of Kung Fu, thus saving this heritage of all mankind from slowly fading into oblivion.









KEYSI AND THE VALUE OF OUR SLIPS "Experience is not what happens to us, experience is what we do with what happens to us" Budo International: Why KEYSI? Justo Diéguez: It's the question I've been asked on more than one occasion and my answer is always the same: "Well, what the world needs ... Another Martial Art!” If you are reading my article I guess it's because you're a seeker like me, a devourer of information ... and I can't imagine doing anything without first informing myself properly, without putting all my passion. It would be dishonest with the people I teach and with myself! I am interested in everything related to the world of self-defense. Sadly, I keep seeing the same systematic archetypes, if not masters with a superhuman power, followed by the seekers of the force, and of course, the masters who train a few hours and come home with a title that certifies them as masters; and on-line training programs, of which I can say they are the scam of the century. You may be thinking I'm crazy! Well, I don't say I'm not, and if so, I love being crazy. B.I.: Are there gaps in the Martial Arts? J.D.: I think so! And it’s the same in any method... Nothing is perfect, many martial artists are thinking about directing their lives toward a method that can fill these gaps, which after many years of practice, they keep missing in self-defense. The world is changing too fast and the way that Martial Arts are taught today is completely different than the one used in the past. Probably you've already analyzed what I'm saying on some occasion and you feel that your teaching is routine. You may also have sometimes the feeling that you barely know anything about the street, that so many black titles and degrees are not the answer to the brutal reality of today, and so

Last November in USA: Don Enric Panes, and group Keysi Texas



you can be worried thinking that perhaps it's not the teaching with which you ever dreamed.... If so, welcome to the club, the club of us people that care about ourselves. This is synonymous to recognize our mistakes and that is good and healthy, because we seek to improve and do it for us, and that is the best thing we can do for our students: improving ourselves every day, without surrendering. B.I.: Is there such concern? J.D.: I think there is great concern in the field of selfdefense, but the good news is precisely the concern itself; the next step is breaking the barriers of the "smarty Master"; changing our mindset not always has to be bad and change can make our dreams come true. We must also evolve, and as the world opens to our eyes, we discover that there are other worlds within this world, other ways of seeing, thinking, understanding and living life. B.I.: Is it necessary to know several Martial Arts? J.D.: No, you don't need to know everything, that's impossible! But there are some basic principles ... The amazing thing about learning a method like KEYSI is the fact that you don't need to know everything, but just understand and assimilate its principles, which are what brings the essence of who you are, with your own limits and physical abilities, your barriers, prejudices and your mental strength. We must learn that we can never control our emotions, these are uncontrollable, but I'm sure that by recognizing them we can beat them. But

“Teaching is not based on responses, is based on questions. Education is the one method that allows you to find the answers to all the questions.�

Last November in USA: Justo & Renne



for this we must first recognize that the real enemy and the true friend are within ourselves, once we recognize and assimilate these principles, they will be the cor nerstone on which building a true and solid foundation. B.I.: In what way? J.D.: There is a way and that is educating those who teach. But first they have to aim their minds in one direction. First they must learn to educate themselves!!! A large majority of teachers accumulate hundreds of techniques and they keep jumping from one technique to another as if their reputation depended on that. Teaching is not based on responses, is based on questions and education is the one method that allows you to find the answers to all the questions ... Questions! Not answers! B.I.: What does Keysi offer? J.D.: Who knows! Reading this article could be a starting point, or maybe it can cause that someone gets upset... It is not my desire! In Keysi we don't find external answers, we educate to find internal responses. It helps us develop better questions. Knowing what is fundamentally significant and why it's done what it's done is the prerequisite for being a good teacher. The better you pose the goal of your teaching (the question) the quicker the answers will be found. B.I.: ¿Inconformista? J.D.: Totalmente inconformista. ¿Serías capaz de darme un sólo motivo por el que en un año a partir de ahora, no hayas conseguido hacer tus sueños realidad? La respuesta es no. No puedes porque sencillamente no lo hay; la clave está en inconformarte con lo que eres y desear lo que serás. B.I.: Nonconformist? J.D.: Totally nonconformist. Would you be able to give me one single motive for which in a year from now, you will not have been able to make your dreams come true? The answer is no. You simply can't give a motive because there is not motive; the key lies in not settling for what you are, and wishing what you will be.

In Texas accompanied by Don Enric Consul General of Spain Panes.








Master Shaolin Shi Yanti is a monk of the 34th generation of the Songshan Shaolin Temple and a direct disciple of Venerable Abbot Shi Yong Xin. In this his first work for Budo International, he presents the Luohan Shibashou, one of the older and most representative basic forms of empty hand of the Shaolin Temple. According to the book "Shaolin Quan Pu", in the Sui Dynasty, the Shaolin's warrior monks developed a series of simple movements, chosen according to the "18 Luohan statues", hence the name Luohan Shou Shi Ba (18 hands of Luohan). The style of this Taolu is particular and in its continuous movements can be clearly seen combinations of real and unreal movements, defense and counterattack, and a variety of hidden movements. The main hand techniques in this Taolu are those of the palms, and learning requires great agility and coordination, as well as mastering the positions Xubu, Dingbu, Gongbu and Mabu and their features.

REF.: • DVD/YANTI-1

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How do I become a martial arts instructor? (at the KUNG FU SCHOOLMARTIN SEWER) Many people like working and exert themselves on a daily basis to push a project forward, to create something or to help others by means of their work. Some of these people stand out in particular, which can be recognised by their ambitions and the corresponding success. These people basically have just one single advantage over all others: They love what they do. To some doing what you love every day is just an unimaginable dream. The great goal, as it were. That, which to some is the great goal, is only just the beginning at the Kung Fu School Martin Sewer, or better still the basis for much more.


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s an instructor at the Kung Fu School Martin Sewer, to love what you do is a prerequisite. We love and enjoy every single lesson we give. We love and enjoy teaching people authentic Kung Fu and helping them to succeed. And most of all we love our Kung Fu and the daily practicing of our art. If this is also the case with you as a martial artist, then you are already well on your way to become a successful teacher. For being an instructor is not a profession, but a calling, plus a virtuous duty towards all of one’s fellow human beings, regardless of whether towards students or not. “There is no use in being the best, the fastest or the strongest, if nobody wants to be with you due to your weak character.” Chiu Chi Ling When, at a young age, I started to teach in order to earn something on the side, money worries were very common. Once I met an elderly man, the owner of a corner shop, who I regularly chatted with, and I was complaining to him about my financial situation. He told me: “You are in luck, Martin. By means of your Job you already earn 3 million a year. Just like that." I was surprised by his statement and asked further questions. He replied: "First off, as a result of teaching you are on the move each day and you have to continually train in order to stay up-to-date. You automatically have a strong, muscular body others envy you for. What is it worth to have such a body? Let’s say 1 million?”. I understood and I had to agree with a smile. He continued: ”Secondly, you naturally also have a healthy body. You stay fit and strong. And you are, as I know you, never ill. How much is health worth? Say one million? So that already makes 2 million.” As ridiculously simple as his explanations were, the man was right. I was hardly ever ill. The man continued: ”And lastly: By doing what you do, each day you deal with great people of all ages, you teach


them something and at the same time you yourself learn something about life from each of your students. What do you think is this opportunity worth? Another million. You see, You can be very happy.” Of course my money worries were still there after the conversation, but suddenly I realised how lucky I was and thus I went on my way with a big smile. This story often reminds me that being a professional instructor or teacher, at heart, is about the subject per se. And that one should love teaching and what one teaches in order to be really happy. Yet for all our love for what we do, as martial artists, we are naturally also practice-oriented. What I mean by that is that at the end of the day, you need money, a salary in order to make a living of being an instructor. Perhaps you have been thinking about becoming an instructor at our school for a long time, but you already have got a job and certain duties. And now you are asking yourself what it really is all about and how to go about it precisely. First of all, you need to see: Being an instructor does not automatically exclude everything else. It is true that many of my instructors are working towards becoming real professionals, but we are a Kung Fu family and we support each other as far as we can. What I am trying to say is that also an instructor who supports the head instructor of a school or his master a few days a week, can already be fully considered to be an instructor, can earn money with it and deepen his or her passion. However, regardless of whether you are a full professional or a part-time instructor, what you should pay attention to, I would like to suggest in the following three points, with the purpose that you shall soon belong to the elite of the KUNG FU SCHOOL MARTIN SEWER:

1. Security With regard to this topic my teacher told me that: “A ship is most safe when it is anchored safely in port. But it hasn’t been built for this purpose”. Act with caution, be wary, yet at the same time be courageous. Some people in your surroundings may not understand what you are intending and may consider it to be “too unstable”. This was primarily the case when I started out. Today we are a successful, big Kung Fu school. Be courageous and take the first step. There are enough people in your environment, most of all your instructors, who are going to help you.


“There is no use in being the best, the fastest or the strongest, if nobody wants to be with you due to your weak character.� Chiu Chi Ling


2. Change Would you have to reduce your previous working hours in order to be able to teach? Plan well ahead and figure out your options. Even a change to a full professional has to be well prepared and needs to take place in several steps. Ideally, you prepare yourself financially for a transitional phase by being ready for and saving up for possibly dire times.

3. Education Do have a detailed overview of the imminent education and plan when you want to complete what. Find out about all information available. Set deadlines for your clear objectives you want to achieve and advance as efficiently as possible. This way you will safe time in the long run and eventually also money. At the KUNG FU SCHOOL MARTIN SEWER it is already possible to start with the education as an instructor at the level of the green belt (i.e. the forth level of the basic school). The steps to becoming an instructor involve the following: - candidate of instructor - assistant instructor - instructor - senior instructor

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Throughout the individual levels you learn every important aspect and all the relevant knowledge for your new calling. It includes a first-aid course, philosophical and medical foundations plus of course teaching tools for giving a successful lesson. You complete the basic instructor course with module 1. As soon as you have successfully completed this course, you are then able to teach whole classes, and you will be teaching at the high quality students at the KUNG FU SCHOOL MARTIN SEWER are used to. Good Luck!

























Jeet Kune Do Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do The path of my life There is a moment in life, unrepeatable, when man breaks into the world defying everything, without reservations, transforming the monotony of life into a dream without limits; at that very moment, it begins the existence of a new path, a new world, a new concept of a different life, that of seeing things outside the narrow limits of the possible, and this is how by magic, the man in that virtual and intimate vastness seeks his life. This is what happened to me during the course of my martial life and after having fulfilled forty years of assiduous practice. The discovery of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, the marvelous and philosophical Warrior's Art created by Lee Jun Fan (Bruce Lee), reflects accurately, in my opinion, the future of new generations of martial artists, because it is linked to a concrete possibility of inner renewal; or the potential capacity on the part of the teachers of this age, to open up to more comprehensive views on the street concept, respecting the ancient martial code in accordance with the teachings of the old masters. Currently after founding as president the "Unione Italiana Kung Fu Tradizionale" (Italian Union of Traditional Kung Fu), I decided to pursue an ambitious project to develop within the organization through an extended program, the true martial path of Bruce Lee, from the Oakland Jun Fan Gung Fu until today, a careful review of his thought, his original techniques, his non-style style, and the principles and concepts of his revolutionary and advanced fighting Art. My desire is to bring together all Jeet Kune Do practitioners and enthusiasts under one banner, that of the Italian Union of Traditional Kung Fu, founded and represented by me, a true family of martial researchers dedicated solely and exclusively to the development and teaching of combat systems at the forefront. The art of Little Dragon will finally have its place well defined. This is to give the opportunity to develop a joint program dedicated to the global research through seminars and workshops at the School of Sports of the Coni and the Temple of Martial Arts; that is, to ensure a high-profile training educational support. "Walk On"


"I have an unpayable debt of gratitude to all my Masters and the people who contributed to shape my ideas, transmitting me the concepts and philosophy of their sublime Combat Arts."

JEET KUNE DO, the way of the intercepting fist "In memory of Larry Hartsell, my Sifu and mentor." I have an unpayable debt of gratitude to all my Masters and the people who contributed to shape my ideas, transmitting me the concepts and philosophy of their sublime Combat Arts: - Scott Dobss (who introduced me to the JKD concepts of Inosanto). - Sifu Larry Hartsell Guru (Bruce Lee's direct student), the person who contributed more than anybody else to my training in JKD, as a teacher and mentor. - Patrick Strong (Bruce Lee's first generation student), to whom I owe the deepest knowledge of JKD. - Tacky Kymura (Bruce Lee's first generation student), who introduced me to the origin of JKD by studying the Jun Fan Gung Fu. - Tim Takett (a character whom I call the Professor of JKD, for his careful analysis through the JKD pyramid. - Erik Paulson (Larry Hartsell's outstanding student whom I met at his home in Los Angeles and came to my school in Rome). - Carlos Hernรกndez (who transmitted me Paul Vunak's fantastic interpretation of JKD PFS). - John Machado (one of the greatest interpreters of the most advanced fighting system of the century: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), several times guest at my school. - Ajarn Yodtong Senanan, a true legend of Muay Thai Boran (reference point of my school through seminars in Thailand and Italy). - Choo Kenzyng (my first Kung Fu Master, to whom I owe a deep knowledge of the Art of War). - Richard Douieb (one of the world greatest experts of Krav Maga), several times guest in my school and in my home. - Sifu Sergio Iadarola, in my opinion, one of the greatest researchers and students of Wing Chun (who introduced me to the true origin of the system through classes taught by his assistants and attendance to his summer camp). - Paolo Delisio, my great friend (one of the greatest interpreters of Yip Man's body management system).


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- William Cheung (the one who introduced Bruce Lee in the school of Yip Man, guest at my school and promoter, as well as protagonist of the return to Shaolin Wing Tsun, a trip in which I participated personally and I had the chance of knowing the interpretation of Wing Chun in its homeland. - Li Rong Mei (my friend and she-master of Tai Chi). - Tuhon Ray Dionaldo, great interpreter of the Southeast Asian fighting arts (my Master of Kali and Filipino Martial Arts), a frequent guest at my school. - Tommy Charruters (one of the best interpreters of Ted Wong's original JKD). - Michael Fries (my first master of Wing Chun) - Etc.


The 4 combat distances - Part 1 KICKING DISTANCE

1. Front Kick with the advanced leg.

2. Front kick with the rear leg.

THE FOUR COMBAT DISTANCES Kicking distance In terms of spatial relationship between us and the opponent (which in this case is the only thing that matters) kicking distance is defined as the distance from which we can effectively hit the opponent with our legs. The kicking and punching distances are flexible, which means they are determined by the skill of the practitioner and his physical characteristics; in general, the greater the distance that can be covered with our limbs, the greater the effectiveness of our attack; if we can strike from a distance that our opponent can't, then we'll have an important advantage, but not decisive. At this distance we select techniques borrowed from Muay Thai, Savate and Wing Chun.


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3. Roundhouse kick..

4. Roundhouse kick.

“In terms of spatial relationship between us and the opponent (which in this case is the only thing that matters) kicking distance is defined as the distance from which we can effectively hit the opponent with our legs.�


Wing Chun 1. Vertical fist attack with scissor step dodge. 2. Lateral exit and joint kick.

Savate Whipping kick to the genitals. Oblique kick to the knee. Blocking hit to the joints.




PUNCHING DISTANCE

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Punching distance This distance is known as the pugilistic distance; the tools we use in this situation are Boxing and Wing Chun, but again let's define this distance in terms of spatial relationships. We are in the pugilistic distance when we can attack the opponent with the fist of our advanced arm by taking half a step forward; if we can reach the opponent without even advancing, then we are too close and therefore, at this distance, we can use all the technical repertoire of Western Boxing and Wing Chun, trying to use both combat systems simultaneously in our offensive action. 1. Eye jab 2. Jab 3. Direct

1. Jab. 2. Right Direct. 3. Left Hook. 4. Right hook. 5. Uppercut. 6. Right uppercut. 7. Defense with right torso-flexion. 8. Defense with left torso-flexion. 9. Defense with left hook (Pendulum). 10. Defense with slip over the shoulder.


Can Wushu Kung Fu be finally united? The answer is "Yes". THE UNION IS BORN What for many was only a dream it has become a reality. THE UNION IS BORN, NOW IS UP TO ALL OF US PRACTITIONERS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVEN'T BEEN INVOLVED FROM THE BEGINNING, TO BECOME A PART OF IT AND MAKE IT GROW TO GIVE TO OUR ART A BETTER UNITARY FUTURE BORN TO HARD WORK

UIKT: Unione Italiana Kung Fu Tradizionale - WTKF: World Traditional Kung Fu Federation

Awaken the Martial Spirit In Cantonese: Sen Mo Jing San In Mandarin: Shang Wu Jing Shen

Respect The Way! Respect the Master In Cantonese: You Zhun Chun Tou In Mandarin: Zhong Shi Zun Dao

We have given rise to a great project, the birth of the Italian Union of Traditional Kung Fu, an organization that serves only the purpose of unifying and promoting the authentic traditional Kung Fu in Italy, in Europe and worldwide. The soul of this federation is the PASSION for traditional Kung Fu, much too often masked by marketing operations. The association wishes to represent the ancient Martial Art that, in its different styles, is shared by thousands of practitioners worldwide. Today the landscape appears surrounded by various realities, each with its own ideal, and each with the need to have a reference point, a common voice that gathers the legitimate representatives of traditional Kung Fu. This is our intention. We want to be a martial community that collaborates so that new schools can flourish and protect those already existing, welcoming all other realities who want to join us. We have important responsibilities, and first of all is to ensure that styles are taught according to the teachings of the old masters, keeping unaltered the art that distinguishes them and value them in their uniqueness. Backed by many masters and the traditional Chinese martial community, we are walking proudly toward our federal second year, during which we hope to develop a great activity and make us present throughout the national territory. To build this reality, we need your help and cooperation. If you practice a traditional style, come and join our large family, you are welcome and you can contribute with your sense of belonging. We can count on the support of the "World Traditional Kung Fu Federation" and many existing traditional Chinese associations with which we are twinned. President Alessandro Colonnese


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New generation of Instructors of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Academy.









"What beautifies the desert is that it hides a well of water somewhere." Antoine de Saint-Exupery "What we know is a water drop; what we ignore is the ocean.� Isaac Newton Flow doesn't mean being sloppy; definitely, water is not so, for it doesn't leave any corner uncovered... it reaches everywhere! As asturian people say, "water has a very fine snout". Unhurried, coupling to the circumstances, water is a metaphor for the persistence and extreme adaptability. It's the paradigm of changing in the form without transforming the essence. Water catalyzes life; without water, the land dries and gets barren; and the fire, without a controller, spreads everywhere and the air, turned into a sandstorm, cannot carry the fertility of the clouds, or the force of the changes. Even iron is wrought by the use of fire in the forges! Water is the cradle of all life, the primary livelihood of both inanimate and animate beings, all of them "bags" of hotter and hotter waters, according to their degree of evolution, and adapted to a change that we accompany, of which we are part, and not guilty, as some would have us believe. The "terminal sin" is the JudeoChristian guilt of environmentalism. Water comforts us, cleanses us, and blesses us. Wet in the rivers of the moment, we swim, fight, wreck... Flowing, adapting to the barriers, going down, not opposing anything, water is the perfect analogy of humility, adaptation and not conflict. The water wins aimlessly; following its nature, it surrounds any obstacle and teaches us how to overcome, but with wisdom, free from wear and tear, without losing sight of the goal. What is a rock on the road, a mountain‌? Even trapped in between cliffs and narrow passages, water filters, or evaporates if such a thing is not possible; nothing stops its destination. It's been the river of life that has left in my shores these texts, which today I share in book format. And I say "it left" because all authorship is at least confusing, since we are all debtors of those before us, those who inspired and keep inspiring us, of the floating clouds of the collective unconscious, and even, who knows!, of the spirits and the consciousness around us. I can't teach anything because I don't know anything, but for those who wish to hear my poems, here I leave my sincere and truly felt thoughts, every time more felt and less thought, because mind is a deceptive device that sees what it wants to see and I’ve learned to be suspicious about it.




José Manuel Reyes Pérez, Hapkido 7th Dan by the World Hapkido Federation (WHF) and a member of the Board thereof, International Director for Western Europe and President of the Federación Española de Hapkido (FEH - Spanish Hapkido Federation Hapkido), in his first DVD, presents a complete treatise on the techniques that make truly great this traditional Korean Martial Art, through the legacy that was directly transmitted to him by Grandmaster Kwang Sik Myung, Hapkido 10th Dan. Hapkido is the Art of Dynamic Self Defense par excellence that combines speed and fluidity, along with the physical preparation, technique, breathing, meditation and the cultivation of internal energy. An art that covers a variety of techniques with and without weapons combining defenses and attacks, including leg, knee, fist, elbow, throws and choke techniques, and very especially dislocation techniques. In this work, Master Reyes shows us the Danjon Hop breathing exercises, the Gonkiok Sul arm attacks, the Jok Sul double and triple leg techniques, the Ho Shin Sul self-defense, the Dan Bong attack and defense techniques with short stick, and defense against knife. A complete work on an art, Hapkido, or the way of harmonizing the energy, the practice of which helps greatly improve our health, both physical and mental, and provides the practitioner with vitality, energy, self-confidence, character and personality.

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Always with the Ochikara, "The Great Strength" (called e-bunto in the Shizen vernacular tongue) or secret wisdom of the ancient Miryoku Japanese shamans, as a backdrop, the author takes us into a world of genuine reflections that are capable to move at once both the reader's heart and head, thus placing him continuously in front of the abyss of the invisible, as the true final frontier of personal and collective consciousness. The spiritual taken not as religion, but as the study of the invisible, was the way of the ancient Miryoku sages to approach the mystery in the framework of a culture as rich as unknown, to which the author has wholeheartedly devoted. Alfredo Tucci, Manager Director to Budo International Publishing Co. and author in the past 30 years of a large number of titles about the Warrior's Way, offers us a set of extraordinary and profound reflections, which can be read individually in no particular order. Each one of them opens up a window to us through which we can take a look at the most varied subjects from an unexpected angle, now dotted with humor now with forcefulness and grandiosity, placing us in front of eternal matters with the view of the one who has just arrived and doesn't agree with the common places in which everyone coincides. We can affirm with conviction that no reader will be indifferent to this book; such is the strength and intensity of its contents. Saying this is saying a lot in a world crowded with collective mangers, interested and behavioral ideologies, manipulators and, in short, spurious interests and mediocrity. It is therefore a text for big souls and intelligent people who are ready to look at life and mystery with the freedom of the most restless and scrutinizing minds, without dogmas, without transient morals, without subterfuges...












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