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PUBLISHER´S MESSAGE A salute to all readers of Martial Science Magazine, my pleasure to introduce our latest issue of this year’s edition in English of Martial Science Magazine Issue 12. In our storycover we share with you the latest film from action film Award-winning director / Fight choreographer / stunt performer Art Camacho; The Chemist: stars Olivier Gruner (Nemesis, The Circuit, Sector 4: extraction), as “Steele” an assassin for hire, Patrick Kilpatrick (Minority Report / Death Warrant) and Karate Kid’s Martin Kove, and features 22 Jump Street’s Richard Grieco and Sasha Mitchell of Kickboxer fame. The film was produced by Tom Renner and Al Bravo. And also in our cover this great event we reported from Tampa, Florida, The Salon of 2015 Gala Hosted by Grandmaster Sergio Barriga was a Huge Success. Guests included VIP World Champions and grandmasters Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, GM. Cynthia Rothrock, GM. Bill Wallace, GM. Glen Wilson, Olando Rivera, Along With 20 Time World Champion Strength athlete Guest of Honor Dr Robert Goldman, World Karate Champ Cheryl Wheeler, World Champion Boxer Daisy Lang and many other notables. Without taking you more time, I leave you with many other articles of great content and interest to dismiss another year and I wish you much happiness, understanding and love. Merry Christmas!!! Henry Binerfa | Publisher/CEO Martial Science Publications, LLC
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“Great, Majestic and Friendly” These are the three words that can best describe the event Salon de Gala 2015 held at the Marina Cove, St. Pete, Florida. This time dedicated to “Honoring the family movie of the year” “The Martial Arts Kid” This event was organized by the Global United Martial Arts Federation, headed by GM. Sergio Barriga (Founder Of Shim Shin Do & Martial SmArt Training since 1971), who made an extraordinary organizational work and brought together in one place many celebrities of movies and martial arts.
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Salon de Gala 2015 Seminars
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GM. Carl Stone
Forbes Riley
Randall Moyer, Breanna L. Gianna O ‘Neill, Alissa Green, Debra Gage, Tracy LiMato, Denisee Green, Robin S., Jim O’Neill, Daniel A.
Daisy Lang
Master Kevin Bergquist
Gabriela E. Barriga
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GM. MIchael McGann, GM. Jason Velez, Sensei Shawn Duval, William Clansky, Terry Bibbins, Sensei Herbie Thompson Omar Schwanzer, Jim Rivera
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GM. Little John Davis, Jai Hinson Walter Evams
Terry Spinowitz
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Sensei Henry Binerfa
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Master Tracey Landgraf
Rey Linares
Maria Silveria and group masters
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Olando Rivera Team
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The Chemist A LABORATORY OF EXPLOSIVE ACTION
By: Craig Heimbichner Craig Heimbichner is a producer, screenwriter, actor, author and instructor of Wing Chun and Tai Chi. Full disclosure: Craig Heimbichner choreographed the Wing Chun scene in the movie, and played two roles.
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The Chemist is not simply award-winning Director Art Camacho’s latest, and most anticipated film: it is by far his best to date. Combining the haunting cinematography and stellar talent of another award-winner, Director of Photography Carmen Cabana, with a well-paced story conceived by Camacho himself, The Chemist mixes a laboratory of ingredients that are absolutely explosive: a driving, twist-laden plot; intensity of emotion; jaw-dropping action; and a visual feast that frames the mood of many powerful scenes, from the suspenseful to the sensual. Executive Producers Shuriz Hishmeh and Joe Navarra, along with Producers Al Bravo (The Chicago 8), Tom Renner
(Redemption, Gangland) and Art Camacho, clearly had a vision in constructing this film, which is evident in the cohesiveness of the plot and the visual “feel” of the staging and action. The opening grabs the viewer by the throat and largely drives forward with the pedal halfway to all-the-way down through a tale of assassination and character transformation. World kickboxing champion and action star Olivier Gruner (Crooked) plays his best role to date as Ronus Steele, an assassin of finesse working for the shadowy organization Blackstone. Steele’s superior Frank Castle (Martin Kove, best known for his role as the evil Sensei in Karate Kid) is forced to order Steele to take
on an all-too-eager apprentice, Blaine (Steven Dell). After a vicious hit on a kung fu school led by Blaine, Blackstone has reason to be concerned, and in a gripping shaving scene in a barbershop, Frank’s boss Claxton (veteran actor Patrick Kilpatrick) makes his razor-sharp point. Ronus, who can’t shake the traumatic memories of losing his family, is an occasionally tormented loner, but connects with the charming Gabriela (Stephanie Gerard) who winds up on the run along with Steele when Blackstone decides to eliminate them both. Blaine’s girlfriend Trinidad (Nina Bergman) emerges as a sexy psychopath who is attracted to his hidden occupation. Along the way we are treated to martial arts action that includes many real-life masters, such as Eric Lee and Samuel Kwok, from minor roles to memorable ones. Many performances deserve highlighting, from Gruner’s quiet intensity to Kilpatrick’s convincing coldness, but the performances of both Gerard and Bergman give the film vitality. Both accomplished musicians and performers (with a share in the effective soundtrack along with Los Lonely Boys), they paint a fascinating contrast, with Gerard seeming to be an innocent college student in need of Steele’s protection, and Bergman the opposite: a sexcrazed girlfriend of a killer who can’t wait to have a piece of the action. But appearances can be deceiving, and the closing fight scene between the two reflects the high standards of Camacho and his team. Art Camacho clearly put his heart and soul into this film, taking a relatively small budget and giving it the appearance of ten times more. Camacho’s story-telling skill (brought to life by screenwriter James Dean Simington) is not only evident along with his directorial artistry and control, but also one of Camacho’s favorite themes is shown here in the transformation of an unethical man— Steele, an assassin—into a deeper individual who pulls
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depths of virtue from himself that even he didn’t know he had, after finding something to care about—and someone—while risking his life to do it. The coloration, editing, and soundtrack (Los Lonely Boys’ own JoJo Garza also appears onscreen as Outlaw) are other features of this film that contribute to its impact. Having swept seven awards at the Action On Film Awards, The Chemist is a winner all the way, with a chemical mix of powerful imagery, a gripping story, and white-hot action that explodes off the screen.
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Teachings of the Budha Three Questions by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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T once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid, and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake. And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do. And learned men came to the King, but they all answered his questions differently. In reply to the first question, some said that to know the right time for every action, one must draw up in advance, a table of days, months and years, and must live strictly according to it. Only thus, said they, could everything be done at its proper time. Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should always attend to all that was going on, and then do what was most needful. Others, again, said that however attentive the King might be to what was going on, it was impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action, but that he should have a Council of wise men, who would help him to fix the proper time for everything.
But then again others said there were some things which could not wait to be laid before a Council, but about which one had at once to decide whether to undertake them or not. But in order to decide that one must know beforehand what was going to happen. It is only magicians who know that; and, therefore in order to know the right time for every action, one must consult magicians. Equally various were the answers to the second question. Some said, the people the King most needed were his councillors; others, the priests; others, the doctors; while some said the warriors were the most necessary.
The hermit listened to the King, but answered nothing. He just spat on his hand and recommenced digging. ‘You are tired,’ said the King, ‘let me take the spade and work awhile for you.’ ‘Thanks!’ said the hermit, and, giving the spade to the King, he sat down on the ground. When he had dug two beds, the King stopped and repeated his questions. The hermit again gave no answer, but rose, stretched out his hand for the spade, and said:
To the third question, as to what was the most important occupation: some replied that the most important thing in the world was science. Others said it was skill in warfare; and others, again, that it was religious worship.
‘Now rest awhile -- and let me work a bit.’
The hermit lived in a wood which he never quitted and he received none but common folk. So the King put on simple clothes, and before reaching the hermit’s cell dismounted from his horse, and, leaving his bodyguard behind, went on alone.
‘Here comes some one running,’ said the hermit, ‘let us see who it is.’
But the King did not give him the spade, and continued to dig. One hour passed, and another. The sun began to sink behind the trees, and the King at last stuck the spade into the ground, and All the answers being different, the King agreed said: with none of them, and gave the reward to none. But still wishing to find the right answers to his ‘I came to you, wise man, for an answer to my questions, he decided to consult a hermit, widely questions. If you can give me none, tell me so, and renowned for his wisdom. I will return home.’
When the King approached, the hermit was digging the ground in front of his hut. Seeing the King, he greeted him and went on digging. The hermit was frail and weak, and each time he stuck his spade into the ground and turned a little earth, he breathed heavily. The King went up to him and said: ‘I have come to you, wise hermit, to ask you to answer three questions: How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to the rest? And, what affairs are the most important and need my first attention?’
The King turned round, and saw a bearded man come running out of the wood. The man held his hands pressed against his stomach, and blood was flowing from under them. When he reached the King, he fell fainting on the ground moaning feebly. The King and the hermit unfastened the man’s clothing. There was a large wound in his stomach. The King washed it as best he could, and bandaged it with his handkerchief and with a towel the hermit had. But the blood would not stop flowing, and the King again and again removed the bandage soaked with warm blood, and washed and rebandaged the wound. When at last the blood ceased flowing, the man revived and asked for something to drink. The King brought fresh water and gave it to him. Meanwhile the sun had set, and it had become cool. So the DECEMBER/2015
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King, with the hermit’s help, carried the wounded man into the hut and laid him on the bed. Lying on the bed the man closed his eyes and was quiet; but the King was so tired with his walk and with the work he had done, that he crouched down on the threshold, and also fell asleep -- so soundly that he slept all through the short summer night. When he awoke in the morning, it was long before he could remember where he was, or who was the strange bearded man lying on the bed and gazing intently at him with shining eyes. ‘Forgive me!’ said the bearded man in a weak voice, when he saw that the King was awake and was looking at him. ‘I do not know you, and have nothing to forgive you for,’ said the King. ‘You do not know me, but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore to revenge himself on you, because you executed his brother and seized his property. I knew you had gone alone to see the hermit, and I resolved to kill you on your way back. But the day passed and you did not return. So I came out from my ambush to find you, and I came upon your bodyguard, and they recognized me, and wounded me. I escaped from them, but should have bled to death had you not dressed my wound. I wished to kill you, and you have saved my life. Now, if I live, and if you wish it, I will serve you as your most faithful slave, and will bid my sons do the same. Forgive me!’
‘For the last time, I pray you to answer my questions, wise man.’ ‘You have already been answered!’ said the hermit still crouching on his thin legs, and looking up at the King, who stood before him. ‘How answered? What do you mean?’ asked the King. ‘Do you not see,’ replied the hermit. ‘If you had not pitied my weakness yesterday, and had not dug these beds for me, but had gone your way, that man would have attacked you, and you would have repented of not having stayed with me. So the most important time was when you were digging the beds; and I was the most important man; and to do me good was your most important business. Afterwards, when that man ran to us, the most important time was when you were attending to him, for if you had not bound up his wounds he would have died without having made peace with you. So he was the most important man, and what you did for him was your most important business. Remember then: there is only one time that is important -- Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!’ 1903.
The King was very glad to have made peace with his enemy so easily, and to have gained him for a (from http://www.tolstoy.org/) friend, and he not only forgave him, but said he would send his servants and his own physician to Appendix attend him, and promised to restore his property. “How can we live in the present moment, live Having taken leave of the wounded man, the King now with the people around us, helping to lessen went out into the porch and looked around for the their suffering and making their lives happier? hermit. Before going away he wished once more How? The answer is this: We must practice to beg an answer to the questions he had put. The mindfulness. The principle Tolstoy gives appears hermit was outside, on his knees, sowing seeds in easy. But if we want to put it into practice we must the beds that had been dug the day before. use the method of minfulness in order to seek and The King approached him, and said: find the way.”-- Thich Nhat Hanh. 26
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Taekwon-Do Pioneers Kim Bok-Man and Low Koon Lin Reunite in Malaysia for Historic 2-Day Seminar
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Taekwon-Do Pioneers Kim Bok-Man and Low Koon Lin Reunite in
Malaysia for Historic 2-Day Seminar
Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man,
a legendary influential pioneer of military Taekwon-Do, and Grandmaster Low Koon Lin, the first non-Korean student of Taekwon-Do, reunited in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a historic 2-day seminar held on August 29 and 30, 2015 at the beautiful Thean Hou Temple Grand Ballroom. The seminar was sponsored by the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation and Black Belt Taekwon-Do Dojang, both of Kuala Lumpur. The recent seminar is only the second time that Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Low have enjoyed each other’s company in more than 50 years. Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man, President of the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation, and Grandmaster Stan C. Swope, Vice President, were greeted at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Wednesday, August 26 by delegates from the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation (MCTF), Black Belt Taekwon-Do Dojang (BTD) and Greenfield Taekwon-Do Club (GTC). Delegates included Grandmaster Dr. Sam Looi Yew Khuen (9th Dan), MCTF President; Master Don Looi Mun Khuen (7th Dan), MCTF Vice President; Senior Master Gary Tong Chee Yong (8th Dan), MCTF Secretary General; Senior Master Tay Chin Hiong (8th Dan), GTC Chief Instructor;
and Master Ow Wee Leong (7th Dan), GTC Instructor. They were joined for dinner that evening by Grandmaster Rickie Low Ah Kuan (9th Dan), Super Taekwon-Do Academy; and Grandmaster Nelson Bernard Kirby (9th Dan), Visual Martial Arts, Inc. Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man’s martial arts legacy in Malaysia and Southeast Asia runs deep. From 1963-1964 while General Choi HongHi was ambassador to Malaysia, Supreme Grandmaster Kim and General Choi developed DECEMBER/2015
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techniques, created patterns and wrote: Taekwon-Do: The Art of Self-Defence, the historic first English textbook, which would be published in 1965. From 1964-1966, Supreme Grandmaster Kim further helped lay the foundation for General Choi’s International Taekwon-Do Federation by spreading Taekwon-Do throughout much of Southeast Asia. Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man is often recognized as the Father of Southeast Asia Taekwon-Do for his efforts. Supreme Grandmaster Kim, 81, reunited with Grandmaster Low Koon Lin, 88, for only the second time in more than 50 years on Thursday, August 27 for lunch at the historic Sek Yuen Chinese Restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. Grandmaster Low, after witnessing Taekwon-Do at the Korean Embassy in 1963, approached General Choi and asked about the martial art. A black belt in Judo, Grandmaster Low asked to learn Taekwon-Do, thus became the “Father of Malaysian Taekwon-Do.” Although General Choi may have
taught Grandmaster Low briefly, teaching responsibilities fell to Supreme Grandmaster Kim BokMan and Master Woo Jae-Lim. Supreme Grandmaster Kim taught in Malaysia until 1964 when he was dispatched to Singapore. Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Low would next meet in 2009, and again in 2015 for the recent seminar. The legendary pioneers were happy to meet again. While in Kuala Lumpur, Supreme Grandmaster Kim gave interviews at Astro TV Station HQ, to be broadcast on satellite pay TV station Astro Super Sport; at radio stations LITE FM and HITZ FM; to Guang Ming Daily newspaper; and to the Star Daily newspaper. Supreme Grandmaster Kim answered questions about his martial arts history and the history of Taekwon-Do, describing the early days of Taekwon-Do in the ROK Army and working with General Choi. He also discussed why Malaysia was “the second home of Taekwon-Do,” as General Choi, the first Korean Ambassador to Malaysia, once said. General Choi served as Ambassador from 1962 to 1964. During the interviews, Supreme Grandmaster Kim also
promoted the health benefits of Taekwon-Do for all ages. After interviews on 27 August, Supreme Grandmaster Kim, Grandmaster Swope, Grandmaster Low and the seminar organizing committee visited Everybody Martial Arts, Malaysia’s first and oldest Martial Arts supply store. Later, Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Swope visited Black Belt Taekwon-Do Dojang and taught all ages and ranks for several classes until 10 PM. The following evening, Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Swope presided over a high-level black belt testing at Black Belt Taekwon-Do Dojang. Tested for 6th Dan were Prof. Lee Chew Ging of Kuala Lumpur and Liew Pin Huat of Malacca; tested for 7th Dan were Don Looi Mun Khuen, Dr. Steve Ng Hong Aik, Chief Instructor of Penang Taekwondo Association, and Ow Wee Leong of Malacca. Supreme Grandmaster Kim graded participants’ Ch’ang Hon tuls, basic and advanced self-defense against single and multiple opponents, kicking techniques, hand techniques, and breaking. “This high-dan testing was indeed historic,” said Master Don Looi Mun Khuen, MCTF Vice President. “Those tested today were graded by the legendary pioneer who helped develop many of the required Ch’ang Hon patterns on the very same soil where they were developed more than fifty years ago. Few masters or instructors can say the same.” The historic 2-day seminar, held at the beautiful Thean Hou Temple Grand Ballroom, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, began on Saturday, 29 August 2015. Master Don Looi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and Vice President of the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation, gave the opening speech, followed by Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man, President of the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation; Grandmaster Low Koon Lin, Father of Malaysian Taekwon-Do; and Grandmaster Stan C. Swope, Vice President of the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation. They were joined on stage by officers of the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation, President Grandmaster Dr Sam Looi and Secretary General Senior Master Gary Tong, and officers of the Singapore Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation, President Grandmaster Simon Lee Kim Hong and Secretary General Senior Master Dr. William Choo Keang Hai. All ranks, ages and martial arts were invited to attend the seminar. More than 350 martial artists from several dojangs and countries participated. Supreme Grandmaster Kim rang a ceremonial gong to officially begin the seminar.
Supreme Grandmaster Kim taught basic stances, basic techniques, self-defense and many of the Ch’ang Hon patterns during the seminar. For Supreme Grandmaster Kim, all techniques need to be done in a proper, natural way to avoid injury and improve health. Supreme Grandmaster Kim taught the side risking kick as part of the day’s kicking drills. This stretch is unique to Supreme Grandmaster Kim’s curriculum and he stresses proper technique and alignment of the body; height will come naturally once the body and mind have mastered the proper mechanics. Many are able to kick only about knee high when first learning this kick, for example. “Here, here or here,”
more. Participants were honored to learn directly from the pioneer who helped develop the majority of the patterns and techniques they practice. Children and adults were separated into groups during the 2-day seminar so that material could be better presented. Grandmaster Stan Swope and Grandmaster Simon Lee lead the children’s group through age-appropriate techniques, self-defense and Ch’ang Hon patterns. Grandmaster Swope reminded students to aim small and hit small. “The students overall – even the children -- had very good patterns and technique,” said Grandmaster Swope. “Among some of the best I have seen for their ages. They had competent regular
Supreme Grandmaster Kim marked three different heights with his hand, “not matter. Must be done proper way.” Supreme Grandmaster Kim, with the aid of a microphone, gave clear instructions and demonstrated each technique step-by-step, slow at first, then at proper speed with the help of a volunteer. Participants were given opportunity to practice each technique while Supreme Grandmaster Kim, Grandmaster Swope and others helped correct errors. Supreme Grandmaster Kim also taught releases from grabs and the Ch’ang Hon color belt patterns, always stressing the proper, natural way. Supreme Grandmaster Kim helped create 15 of the 24 Ch’ang Hon patterns in Malaysia in 1963-1964, and provided input on as many as four
instruction, which helped them absorb Supreme Grandmaster Kim’s more advanced information at the seminar,” he added.
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GM Low Koon Lin also taught a short course on basic movement, during the historic seminar. During the seminar, Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man presented a 9th Degree Black Belt from the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation to his first Malaysian student, Senior Grandmaster Low Koon Lin, Pioneer and Father of Malaysia Taekwon-Do. Nine other black belts were also promoted during the seminar. Promoted to 9th Dan were Grandmaster Rickie Low Ah Kuan, Grandmaster Nelson Bernard Kirby, and Grand-
master Dr. Sam Looi Yew Khuen. Promoted to 8th Dan was Senior Master Tay Chin Hiong, and promoted to 7th Dan were Master Dr. Steve Ng Hong Aik, Master Don Looi Mun Khuen and Master Ow Wee Leong. Lee Chew Ging and Liew Pin Huat were promoted to 6th Dan. “It is indeed the highest honor to be promoted by Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man, the Taekwon-Do pioneer invited to Malaysia by General Choi,” said Master Gary Tong, Secretary General of the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation. “Malaysia became the second home of Taekwon-Do due to the work that was done here during those pivotal years.” The highest degree granted by the late General Choi to any Malaysian Taekwon-Do practitioner is 8th Dan (Certificate No. M-8-1 and M-8-2). All students received full color certificates signed by Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man and
Grandmaster Low Koon Lin to commemorate the historic seminar. “The Legendary Taekwon-Do Summit 2015 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was a huge success, judging from the various doboks worn by the participants,” said Grandmaster Dr. Sam Looi Yew Khuen, President of the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation, who organized the event. “We had people from various organizations and styles – Global Taekwon-Do Federation (GTF), International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), Hapkido, Tang Soo Do, and Chun Kuhn Taekwondo. There was no discrimination against federations, associations, or clubs. This summit was a prime example of unity through Taekwon-Do.” “I cannot describe the feeling of seeing Supreme GM Kim Bok Man and Senior GM Low Koon Lin being reunited in doboks for both since the DECEMBER/2015
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1960s,” said Master Don Looi, Vice President of the Malaysia Chun Kuhn Taekwon-Do Federation. “It’s not easy to host a gathering of two legendary pioneers, five grandmasters and so many seniors at a single event,” he added. “It was a prestigious event for all who attended.” Before returning to the U.S Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Swope visited South Korea. On 3 September, they met Master Oh Chang-Jin, Secretary General, and Dr. Zibby Kruk, International Liaison Chairman, of the International Taekwon-Do Federation Headquarters - Korea. They discussed the early history, current state and future of the art throughout the morning and over lunch. In the afternoon, Dr. Kruk formally interviewed Supreme Grandmaster Kim. They also discussed future collaborations between ITF-HQ Korea and Supreme Grandmaster Kim’s World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation. Supreme Grandmaster Kim gifted copies of his latest book, Taekwon-Do: Origins of the Art: Bok Man Kim’s Historic Photospective (1955-2015), to
Master Oh and Dr. Kruk. “Supreme Grandmaster Kim Bok-Man had so many interesting stories, ideas and examples that he shared with us that we talked late into the evening,” said Dr. Kruk. “Unfortunately, Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Swope had to catch the KTX (high speed bullet train) in Daejeon, to make their flight to the U.S.” Supreme Grandmaster Kim and Grandmaster Swope may be contacted by phone through the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation in the United States at: (973) 403-0045 or by email at: worldchunkuhntkd@gmail.com. Interested parties may also visit the World Chun Kuhn Taekwondo Federation web sites at: www.chunkuhndo.com www.worldchunkuhntkd.com.
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Making the apparently IMPOSSIBLE – POSSIBLE MASTER GREGOR J HUSS Therefore, the organic health also improves strictly and extensively. One of the columns in the Traditional Taekwon Do is called form (pattern) or also HYONG. Who carries out a form fights in this with exactly prescribed defence and counter movements one or several fictive attackers always with the same expiry. He concentrates with his Hyong completely upon the fiction: with all his strength and prescribed technology he repulses imaginary opponents, makes way to them and carries out counterattacks. The sequence of the agreed movements and technologies shows agility, quickness and strength – but also the aesthetics of the Traditional Taekwon Do
More than 100 000 people of all ages in Germany pursue actively Traditional Taekwon Do. This is more than 100,000 yeses for an assertion which doctors, sports teachers and other experts over and over again put up: Traditional Taekwon Do has Decisively, however, it is: The students are put every brought it in the ast 50 years to an extremely high single day before new, seemingly impossible tasks for whose coping by diligence and perseverance value in the martial arts. are absolutely possible, nevertheless. The borders Energy and elegance of the movements is one, op- of own ability are further shifted constantly. The tical side. However, behind it is hidden even more: feeling „I have accomplished it“ is selfconfirming Selfdiciplin, a critical dialogue with your own body, terrifically. the right respiration, steadily increasing skill and quick strength, but also a noticeably growing per- Traditional Taekwon Do brings not only physical fitness. About solving physical obstacles, restricseverance. tions and inhibitions the psyche also wins. Mental It is no surprise that Traditional Taekwon Do has relaxation and joy of life completely appear from become the confidential tip especially for youngs- besides. ters and adults which want to learn a martial art? The engine for the astonishing effects on the body All through the single exercises and technologies is special gymnastics which aim at a perfect mobi- of the Taekwon Do caused achievements and developments – which are, after all, the lone sense lity and already works after a short time. and the purpose of the DO – it is not grasped by One-sideness, like often to other sports is own is most students at the beginning. They see only the consciously avoided in the training of the Traditio- external frame, in the surface lying ones: The use as a self-defence possibly. Or the physical and sporty nal Taekwondo. 42
skill. Only in the course of the time appear in the consciousness of the students notions around the internal connections. With words affecting each other of body and DO cannot be really explained. It must be experienced.
was very hard and, compared to todays trainings methods, very dull but it was also fun, even you couldn`t say because in the eyes of the teachers it was not supposed to be fun but a serious matter. After his time in the military and many years on business and travelling in foreign countries all over the world, where he trained under many different teachers in variouse styles, depending on what was offered at the particular place he was living at the time, he returned to Germany and took up his training under Master Michael Maerkl and the KWON JAE HWA TRADITIONAL TAEKWON DO System. Training methodes had changed quit a bit and it was still hard training but with a large variety of techniques and tasks. In 1997 he had the chance to meet an excellent martial artist and Taekwondo Master in Florida by the name of Joe Schneeweiss who introduced him to the modern self defense system Combat Hapkido and to Grandmaster John Pellegrini. Shorty after he joined the ICHF and started to learn and teach this modern, realistic,and effective self defense system. In 1996 he had started to run a Taekwon Do school in Kufsein, Austria for his teacher and friend Michael Märkl (+2007) and in 1999 he started his own Taekwon Do school in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. Then he opened 2000 in Munich and founded the Self Defense Germany Federation. Starting in 2003 he devoloped parallel to Taekwon Do and Combat Hapkido his own Self Defense System „Fight Back Defense Programm“. Today, there is some 12 different branch schools in his federation, nationaly and internationally, in variouse styles offered. Master Gregor Huss had been inducted into the Action Magazin Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 2007 and into the Black Balt International Hall of Fame in Bradford, UK in 2008 and 2009., The World Martial Arts Hall of Fame „Hapkido Master of the Year“ 2013 and „Taekwondo Master of the Year“ in 2014, Romanian Hall of Fame and Suisse Hall of Honours as „Pioneer of the Martial Arst“.
MASTER GREGOR J HUSS 6th Dan Taekwon Do 5th Dan Combat Hapkido Founder Fight Back Defense Programm Director Self Defense Germany Federation, Reg Director ICHF Germany Military Combative Instructor MCA, married, 4 children When Gregor Huss started in Taekwon Do under Legend KWON, JAE HWA in 1967 Taekwondo was very rarely known in Germany and a hand full of korean masters had just arrived two years before to spread the art in Europe. Training
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MAA-I meet AMAROK,
the Hun-Turks war art
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he term AMAROK “Alpağutnung Mengü AzRak Oğuz Köreşi” is not directly linked to an Old Hun-Turks arts of war. AMAROK is a newly developed martial art and based on the cultural roots of the Old Hun-Turks history and traditions, as well as on teachings of teñrism (shamanism). It represents a collection of the pre-Islamic history of the Old Hun-Turks, with regards to contents of the way of life of the formerly chosen lone mounted warriors called “Alpağut“. After many years of research about the lone warrior’s way of life, the founder Grandmaster Hakan Haslaman (called first Khan of AMAROK), decided to revive the tradition of Alpağut in a modern martial art under the name AMAROK. By becoming a shaman himself and safe the Hun-Turks ancestor’s culture and traditions line out AMAROKS philosophy by revive
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this lone warrior, he bring the spiritual fighting with the weapon and weaponless fighting together. The Alpağut was a chosen warrior who was trained by important shamans and who is under his ancestor’s protection. His way of living did not only consist of earthly nature but also allowed him to enter the spiritual worlds of ghosts and totem. This is why Alpağut does not wear any protective equipment, as he fears no danger that may harm him. This uniqueness submitted him only to the Khan’s command, which is his mission as long as he lives and he is not permitted to die without having achieved his task. Due to this requirement, just a few warriors in the history were considered to fulfil this task by proving unconditional loyalty.
GM. Bernd Hoehle
The combat techniques of AMAROK divide in several fields which differ from other martial arts. Those fields do not only consist of a technical nature but primarily include the teachings of teñrism. The teachings of teñrism in combination totemism aim at calling forth the student’s “Yırtıcı Yılkı” (fighting skills of a predator). This teaching is called “Teñri Oğuz Köreşi” and is the basis on which AMAROK was developed. It is the way of Alpağut who lives out the fighting skills of a predator by means of the art of immaterial fighting connected to the three spiritual worlds and become the characteristic fighting skills of a predator. After finalizing of the system by Grandmaster AMAROK, the result was deeper analyzing in the year of 1995 from Headmaster Bernd Höhle, which approves this amazing system as one of the real historical based was art and registered it in the Martial Arts Association International as the first historical based and modernized Hun-Turks tribes martial The MAA-I Headmaster Bernd Höhle was from art system. the beginning interested to make his experience of this special Hun-Turks war art to become an Alpağut warrior and an expert of the Hun-Turks horseback archery, whips and dragon sword fighting. Today, Grandmaster Bernd Höhle is one of the high rankest Grandmasters of AMAROK with the special title to be an AMAROK Hun-Turks Army Leader “Yabgu”.
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INTERVIEW
MARIANNE CHUBIRKA
MARIANNE CHUBIRKA
In the 1987 she began to train at the Ken-Zen Institute in NYC with Sensei Jimmy Lockett. There she was exposed to a wide variety of martial arts including Okinawan/Chinese Kenpo, JKD, Tai Chi Chuan, Thai Boxing and Kali/Escrima. Through that association she attended seminars taught by Dan Inosanto, Paul Vunak, Larry Hartsell and many others.
Marianne Chubirka holds the rank of 5th Dan (5th degree black belt) in Goju Ryu Karate. She received her 4th (1997) from Eichi Miyazato Sensei, and her 5th Degree (2003) from Koshin Iha Sensei, both at the Jundokan dojo on Okinawa. As a student of world famous Goju instructor Chuck Merriman, she is in a direct line from the founder of Goju Ryu, Chojun Miagi. She has traveled to Okinawa to study and train seven times and plans Along the way in her training and competition career, Marianne became a certified personal trainer to return next year. and nutritionist. She has served as Strength and In karate competition Marianne was 8 times NY Conditioning Coach and/or Nutritionist for many State AAU champion in kata and kumite (point fi- pro fighters including, James McGirt, Clarence ghting), a bronze medalist in kata in the 1981 AAU Adams, Elvir Miriqui, and Riddick Bowe. Nationals and, a double silver and bronze medalist at the 1994 IOGKF Championships in Iri Kumi Meals by Design is Marianne’s nutrition business and she serves both professional athletes and and point fighting. non-athletes. She helps design personalized nutriMarianne was also an amateur and professional tion programs tailored to the needs of each indiviboxer. As an amateur she won the first ever Flori- dual. da Women’s Golden Gloves championship in 1998. She was 3 times Florida Golden Gloves champion as well as winning a silver medal in the 1999 National Golden Gloves and become the National Championship winner at 112 lbs. in the year 2000. Marianne turned pro as a boxer in 2001 winning her first professional fight by KO. She became known as a very hard puncher (having won the majority of her amateur fights by knockout) and fought in the 105, 108 and 112 lb divisions. She was ranked number 3 in the world in the IFBA junior flyweight (108 lb.) division and fought for the world championship in South Korea, losing a close decision. She has been involved with boxing for 18 yrs. In other martial arts, Marianne practiced Judo with Brazilian born Instructor Alex Davis who also taught her Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. She was the Florida State Judo Champion in 1998. She also studied Sanuces Ryu Aiki Jutsu with Anthony Muhammad, senior student of Moses Powell, in Brooklyn; Aikido at the NY Aikikai of Sensei Yoshimitsu Yamada. DECEMBER/2015
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CM: WHEN DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN da called the Olympiad. The center had many sports including boxing and others. It was theMARTIAL ARTS? re that I was introduced to boxing and fell in MC: I began training in 1979. I remember very LOVE! The way it happened is that I happened well, Feb. 13, in New Rochelle NY. My tea- to overhear a conversation from some of the cher was Sensei Pete Vitulli, senior student of boxers saying karate people can’t fight. Quite Sensei Chuck Merriman. The style was Goju naturally, I didn’t agree with them and said I Ryu in the Gogen Yamaguchi lineage. Sensei would be happy to spar with whomever they Merriman later transitioned to the Morio Hi- presented. So, of course, they took me up on gaonna organization and finally we became this and I ended up sparring with a guy. They affiliated with the Jundokan on Okinawa under were surprised and told me I had a lot of power Miyazato Sensei. That’s where I’ve remained to in my punches and might be able to do well in boxing. I began under the tutelage of Scott Asthe present. hley, professional kickboxing World Champion and who also, coincidentally, had been studCM: OBVIOUSLY, YOU’VE TRAINED IN ying traditional Okinawan Shorin Ryu for 35+ SEVERAL MARTIAL ARTS. WAS THAT yrs. After working with him for a while, he reaA COMMON THING WHEN YOU WERE lized I really wanted to box at a high level so DOING IT? he sent me to a pro gym, where I met Norman MC: Not really. It was kind of just starting. Wilson, who had been a top trainer for Don There were some people who cross trained but King and had a gym in Florida. From there I most people still stuck with their own style or just stayed with it because I loved it so much. teachers. I feel like I was kind of lucky in that I started training right when things opened up much more than in the previous generations. In the ‘50s, ‘60s, and even the early ‘70s, from what I’ve heard, you just didn’t train in other styles. You stuck with your own school and teacher or you were considered disloyal. In the ‘80s though, that really began to change. Seminars became popular, people traveled a lot, there was an explosion of fitness and nutrition information and things just became more available. I feel like I benefited from that because I got to see and try more things while still remaining a part of a traditional martial art. CM: WHEN AND HOW DID YOU GET INTO BOXING? MC: Well, actually there’s a bit a story behind that. In 1997 I was teaching karate and doing personal training at a sports center in Flori-
CM: SO, HOW HAS BOXING FOR SO LONG AFFECTED YOU CONCEPTION OR PRACTICE OF TRADITIONAL KARATE? MC: Well, I have to say that it’s not only boxing. Also Judo and Jiu Jistsu have affected me as well. With boxing, one of the most important affects has to do with hitting. In boxing, you are basically hitting things - a bag, practice pads, a training partner - all the time. A lot of that time, you are hitting as hard as you can. The affect this has on your physical development, the linkages of muscle and nerves and between muscle groups, from your feet, all the way to the hand that strikes the target, is very different from traditional karate practice. Even with the makiwara, and hojo undo equipment, there is a kind of interaction throughout your body, that I don’t see how you can develop any other way. Also, with boxing, both you and your opponent are trying your best to hit each other as hard as you can. You just don’t do this in karate. This is a very, very different kind of experience and unless you’ve been in there, really going at it with someone who doesn’t like you and wants to take your head off, you don’t know what it feels like or how to handle it, either physically or emotionally. With Judo and Jiu Jitsu, you get that body to body interaction, your muscles working, gripping, pulling pushing, twisting, getting your body turned and ripped and torqued, day after day, and in matches.
Even with the, and hojo undo equipment, there is a kind of interaction throughout your body, that I don’t see how you can develop any other way.
I love practicing kata, kihon, hojo undo and all the rest. It brings a deep level of satisfaction to me. Just because I’ve had other experiences doesn’t negate what I learned and get from traditional practice.
Again, these are invaluable experiences that, in my opinion, change your perspective when you go back to traditional karate. I feel that it makes everything have a richer, deeper meaning. You still do the same movements but they are coming from a different place inside of you because of the understanding you bring to it from these other experiences. CM: WITH THIS WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES DO YOU STILL CONSIDER YOURSELF A TRADITIONALIST? MC: Actually, in some ways I feel even more of a traditionalist than ever. I love practicing kata, kihon, hojo undo and all the rest. It brings a deep level of satisfaction to me. Just because I’ve had other experiences doesn’t negate what I learned and get from traditional practice.
An analogy I like is that of music, where you have both Jazz and Classical styles. Jazz musicians improvise and create their own version of the music in order to express their true feelings and abilities. Classical players, on the other hand, feel they can be true to their feelings and their artistry without changing the music created by such masters as Mozart of Beethoven. This is how I feel about traditional martial arts. I truly feel I can express myself and my continued growth, my heart and soul as a martial artist, without needing to change the kata or techniques developed by the great masters such as Chojun Miyage, the creator of Goju Ryu. What I do feel is a desire to get more into older training methods like traditional hojo undo (supplemental training). At the Jundokan, we are very fortunate to have quite a lot of the original training equipment developed and used by the founders of the style. There are pieces of equipment that were used by Chojun Miyagi himself in his original garden dojo. I love having access to that kind of history and training. I really want to get more into those older methods while coming from a more experienced perspective.
I believe that being part of a solid traditional curriculum is what helped me with all the other things. I think the power people noticed, the ability to move, the fitness, the willingness to learn, the discipline and commitment, the longterm dedication, all of these things and more come from traditional martial arts training and served me well in the other pursuits. CM: WILL YOU THEN, LEAVE YOUR BOXING, JUDO, AND ALL THE REST CM: WELL, HOW HAS YOUR TRADITIO- BEHIND? NAL PRACTICE CHANGED FROM BEFORE? DO YOU, FOR EXAMPLE, MODIFY MC: Not at all. One of the things I’m doing THE WAY YOU DO THE KATA, OR USE lately is getting together with some of my old DIFFERENT TRAINING METHODS? mentors and working on how to integrate all that experience into my personal expression of MC: Many things haven’t changed at all. I’ve my art. I really want to learn how to develop never felt the need or desire to do things like the application skills I gained in boxing and change the kata or anything like that. I love get to that same level with all of my martial traditional Goju and I feel a greater unders- techniques. I’m working on training methods tanding of the meaning of the practices. I don’t that, hopefully, will help me with that. Right have the slightest inclination to change that now, it’s something I’m very excited about. On part of it. the physical level it feels like a next step in my personal evolution as a martial artist. DECEMBER/2015
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always felt respected. I honestly think there’s nothing special a woman needs to do besides train HARD, body, mind and spirit. Act like you belong ladies, because you do… and you MC: I’ve really been fortunate to have some must KNOW it. great ones. The first would be my initial instructor Pete Vitulli. After him would of course be Sensei Chuck Merriman. He really is one of the true pioneers of traditional martial arts in America and, I think deserves far more credit that he gets for his contribution to the arts and for the many, many students he trained. Also, of course one of my instructors, the late Teddy Pritchard. Sensei Jimmy Lockett, of Tanren Dojo, in NY in the late ‘80s and now in Las Vegas, has been a mentor and friend for all these years. He opened my eyes to so many martial arts and maybe to the concept of cross training. Also he was the one who introduced me to judo, which I studied later in FL. Then, of course, my boxing coaches, Scott Ashely and Norman Wilson. They took me on a journey that changed my life in ways that I can never fully repay. CM: SPEAKING OF MENTORS, WHO WERE SOME OF YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES IN MARTIAL ARTS?
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