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The sport of Jiu Jitsu is both physically and mentally challenging. Indeed, BJJ is often referred to as a physical chess! What is wonderful about this sport is that even if you are physically the best player out there, you can still be beaten by your opponent if he is stronger mentally.

If you go back to the early 90s you can see a great example of this in the UFC fights of Royce Gracie. He was always the smaller and less athletic guy, but he ended up winning UFC 1, 3, and 4. It was amazing and clear that he had skills that other fighters didn’t know what to do with.

So, you might be asking how this applies to you.

The mental game is just as important as the physical. Understand what you are good at and what you need to work on. Know those of your opponent as well. Put together a jiu jitsu plan that’ll let you maximize your strengths and take advantage of his weaknesses. Then, all you have to do is make it happen.

For instance if you are not big, but are fast, you don’t want to get under a guy who is huge. If you weigh a lot, you will want to take advantage of this when you are on top of your opponent. If you have excellent arm bar submissions, you should keep doing them and get them to where they are unbeatable.

Now don’t mistake this tip for making your game one dimensional focusing only on what you are good at. Your jiu jitsu training needs to encompass every component and aspect of the sport that is available in order to completely comprehend your craft. You should be taking these suggestions as a way to pump yourself up regarding your approach to competition and training. If you use your brain you’ll be ahead of half of the other guys out there!

My advice to you is to write down on a piece of paper: what you are good at, what you need to improve on, and the two techniques you intend to develop. Now practice the two you want to work on. And after every roll, see what falls under your strengths and weaknesses. Once these are written down you are committed, so hold yourself responsible for working on them.

Draculino holds a 4th degree black belt in jiu jitsu, has been a world champion several times, and trains people who have become champions in BJJ, MMA, and grappling. If you are interested in reading more about him, visit his jiu jitsu training site or visit the jiu jitsu forum.

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Interesting idea, eh? Sounds like one of those old Kung Fu movies, but is it possible? Could it be true that you actually have unlimited potential, and could learn a complete Kung Fu system within a couple of months?

The mind is unlimited, you know, and that means that you are unlimited. The trick of course, is to figure out a Kung Fu program that downloads into your mind with perfect sense and ease. The trick is to find a software program that really works, and that is actually designed to match your mind.

Most Martial Arts take a long time to learn, and there is a reason for this. Actually, there are many reasons. They all have to do with incorrect data, missing data, illogical data, and that sort of thing that crashes a computer.

First, you must realize that the martial arts are taught using ancient oral traditions. They are passed along by the use of songs and poetry. This is incredibly inefficient, and there is no telling how much data has been lost over the millennium.

Second thing to understand, you must realize that the martial arts are communicated by ‘monkey see monkey do.’ This is mimicry, which is the basic and easiest form of communication on the planet. It works, but does not allow for the interchange of ideas, which makes it totally inadequate for teaching Kung fu, Karate, Aikido, or any art you may wish to mention.

Third, you must realize that the martial arts are taught by having students memorize strings of random data. Memorization is totally inadequate, and often has nothing to do with the actual fact of learning. A xerox machine can’t think, it’s as simple as that.

So to learn a complete kung fu system, or to fix any martial art you might know, you must change the way you learn the martial arts, you must change the training methods you commonly use. You must have mimicry and memorization, but the material of the martial arts has to be arranged in the correct order. This is difficult to do, for people have been enraptured, and convinced, that the old ways of learning should not be changed.

In conclusion, the human mind is a perfect computer, but it is liable to that old rule of ‘garbage in garbage out.’ You don’t have to fix your mind to learn more, you just have to align and make correct the martial arts that go into it. Doesn’t matter what system of Kung Fu you know, what I am saying works, and if you don’t know any martial arts, you can learn a real kung fu system, within a couple of months, all you have to do is change your method of training.

Al Case offers aligned Martial Arts Programs that insert into the mind naturally. He has over forty years experience and writes for the magazines. Pick up a free ebook about his programs at Monster Martial Arts.

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One of the most shocking things in the martial arts is how instructors let themselves go. By this I mean, after they reach a certain point, they never get any more instruction for themselves. The idea here is that you know everything, and all you have to do now is polish it, perfect it, and time will be your teacher.

This concept, of course, is ridiculous. Yes, time will make a person better, but what will improve a person faster is getting more data. Imagine a computer which never inputs any further data and my case becomes obvious.

So you need more data if you are going to get better, and you need to make mental connections with other arts. For instance, if you’ve got a black belt in Karate, a course in Aikido is going to open your mind up. At the end of every karate technique, once you understand what Aikido really is, you can make additional techniques.

And, if you’ve got some good hard Kung Fu, the next step is exploring the internal schools of Kung fu. Aside from improving your understanding of the martial arts, you now have more to offer students and prospective students. This is going to result in better quality of instruction, and it’s going to be a lot of fun besides.

Now, let’s say you don’t have access to an aikido school, or a Wudan school, what do you do? Well, you read the magazines and the books, and this goes a long way. But the real key to improvement is in DVD courses.

You can pick up a course on an entire art, sometimes for as little as ten bucks a DVD, and you can lay on your couch and get up and practice to your hearts content. I used to buy so many arts at my supply store the owner gave me an automatic, good customer, ten per cent discount. And I would spend my late evenings and weekends analyzing and dissecting new arts until I had them totally cold.

When I walked into my kung fu school on a Monday morning, I always had a kettle full of great ideas. Students were always wondering how I cam up with so many great ideas, and they were always blown out by the twists and interpretations I could give the same old same old forms and techniques. I tell ya, when people were bowing to me, they were bowing to superior knowledge by disk, and that can happen to any instructor!

Now, when you pick out an instructional Martial Arts DVD, make sure it deals with an entire art, and not just an overview, an overview is nothing more than an advertisement, there is rarely any meat to this kind of DVD. And, make sure you pick up a new DVD every month, you need to make a project out of this, and not a whim. Martial Arts DVDs are one of the best ways to learn that I know of, I tell you, if you are an instructor, it is imperative that you keep improving yourself, and DVDs are the best and most fun way to do that.

Al Case has studied more than 21 Fighting Disciplines in depth. He has packaged these arts in intense DVD courses such as the Evolution of Art course and Butterfly Pa Kua Chang. Drop by Monster Martial Arts for a sample and a free ebook.

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The era of the extreme and real gung fu was about 1975 to 1985, give or take a few years. Of course, the time period could probably include the time period of 1985 to 1995, because that is when those movies hit the all night movie channels. And, of course, chop sockies forever, because we can now get them on the internet, though we should make sure it is a clean copy and that we have a good DVD player.

One could make argument that Bruce Lee provided the first kung fu flick, and they wouldn’t be wrong, for his movies started the flood of kung fu flicks in America. The first real chop sockie, however, would have to be Five Fingers of Death, with the amazing and inspiring Lo Lieh. Lo Lieh, who thrust his broken fingers into cauldrons of red hot rocks until he could have his revenge.

The main chop sockie movie maker, though there were hundreds, would be the Shaw Brothers. They churned out hundreds of the things, and they convinced the world that if you had an idea and dedicated yourself, you could learn gung fu. The main man of Shaw Brothers was a fellow name of Gordon Liu.

Gordon Liu knew real gung fu, and rumor has it he was adopted into a family of movie makers. One brother was the director of his magnificent masterworks, and the other brother was involved with stunt work. I think that was how it all worked out.

Among his masterpieces, and I will name three of them here, was The Master Killer, also known as Thirty Six Chambers of Death. Mr. Liu always played endearing fools, tilting at windmills, who, through Kung Fu, managed to win in the end. The Master Killer was his entry into the field, and it propelled him right to the top.

One of his gems was Return to the 36th Chamber, where he plays, surprise of surprises, an endearing fool. The plot is silly, the acting is farcical, but the idea that one can learn kung fu from the common tasks of life is incredible. And, when our bumbling fool returns to his village, entirely disillusioned, only to find out what those nefarious monks have done to him…well, the phrase ‘I Do Know Kung Fu’ becomes a clarion call and inspiration to all kung fu students everywhere.

My favorite of Gordon Liu’s movies is an obscure gem entitled Fists of the White Lotus. Our endearing fool is betrayed, practices his kung fu for ten years so he can have revenge, only to find out that the bad guy has also had ten years to practice his kung fu. This movie inspired Bak Mei of Kill Bill fame (played by Gordon Liu) and far outshadows such movies as Crouching Tiger and Kill Bill and that ilk.

The originals flicks, you see, provide innocence and inspiration that cannot be refuted. You want to learn the real stuff of real Shaolin gung fu? Go find these movies, watch them and be inspired, and live life the way real heroes live it.

Al Case has forty+ years martial arts experience. You can pick up a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts. Find out about http://www.monstermartialarts.com/Shaolin_Butterfly.html while you are there.

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