BODYBUILDING NUTRITION BASICS

I doubt whether most martial arts training halls, be they Goju Ryu or Mixed Martial Arts or Jujitsu or whatever, have ever had a crazy guy in their school like Mud Car. We called him Mud Car because that’s what his license plates on his automobile stated. That vehicle, more than just about anything else, told the story of Mud Car.

He had tied parachute webbing across the insides of his car because he felt that that material was best for holding his car together on the inside. He had fire extinguishers fastened to every surface on the inside of his car. He had a dial on his dashboard to give extra power to his tail lights, and he turned it whenever he faced away from the sun so that drivers behind him could see when he braked.

This was just the surface of it all, though. The most impressive thing that Mud Car did was commit to memory the times of all the stop lights in San Jose. He could travel across that large town without ever hitting a stop light.

Unfortunately, when it came to Karate, he was just as crazy. He couldn’t stretch, couldn’t control his body, and, because he had no control, it hurt to work with him. Just being around him you could feel the sparks in his mind shooting into the cosmos.

One day, in class, he interrupted the instructor to complain about a pain in his shin. “It doesn’t hurt, but it keeps bothering me, do you know how to make the pain in my shin go away?” My instructor looked at me with rage in his eyes, I suppose he didn’t want to look at Mud Car because he would murder him, and he said, “Hit your leg with a lead pipe…that’ll make the pain go away.”

I suppose the ability to drive the people around oneself crazy is the deciding factor in this matter of whether a person is crazy or not. At any rate, Mud Car was never promoted to Black Belt. He just didn’t have the maturity.

One day, however, a new instructor came to the school, and Mud Car was promoted to Black Belt within a month…and then he left the school. He had achieved his goal, and that was all he wanted, and the new instructor knew that was the best and most efficient way to get rid of Mud Car. Yet, I missed Mud Car.

He was nuts, but so is the guy who goes after you on the mean streets, so if you could last a session with Mud Car without getting hurt, you knew your art was working. Furthermore, there was a shift of standard here, for Mud Car had been promoted to black belt because he could drive people nuts, not because he was a competent martial artist. Finally, I think that is where the True Art started disappearing from the martial arts training halls of America…schools, even dojos like classical hung gar or Parker Kenpo or classical Aikido, did not administer soothing discipline to the insane, they just promoted them to get rid of them.

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Al Case Fitness aikido, Fitness, gung fu, hung gar, isshin ryu, karate, kenpo, kung fu, okinawan karate, self defense, shito ryu, shotokan, sil lum, wudan

I want the kicks and punches of Jet Li, as athletic and accident resistant as Jackie Chan, and as humble as myself. Now, I’ve seen all the programs out there, I know all I have to do is work through a bone breaking sweat for a few years, and I will achieve my peak potential. Either that or join the spetznatz.

Well, maybe I have taken this a bit far, but there is good news to be had here. The good news is that your body, with a little work, is capable of incredible speed and power and athleticism. The trick is not changing it, but letting it unchange into original DNA structure.

First, you need to change the way you eat. Don’t go insane here, just cancel ALL fast foods, and start eating lots of veggies. When that sugar bowl starts calling, go get a watermelon or a smoothie or something like that. I don’t recommend tossing out all meat, just eating more moderate portions, and maybe ordering more turkey and fish and such instead of those big, juicy T bones.

Now the fun starts. A basic get in shape regimen starts with simple calisthenics, like walking, jumping jacks, a little rope jumping, and that sort of thing, and then progresses into deep squats, dive bomber push ups, and that sort of thing. Actually, I have come to believe in yoga as a very viable and gentle (at least in the beginning) way of putting the body in shape.

Now, the best calisthenic you can do, in this writer’s humble opinion, is the martial arts. The martial arts offer a complete variety of body motion, leaping, twisting, ducking, jumping, skipping, stepping, and so on. Furthermore, they bring you to an understanding of energy, as well as muscle, and this elevates the game to whole new levels.

The message that I am sending your way is that it takes very little work to make your body into what it is supposed to be, it just takes common sense and a modicum of gentle discipline. As you follow the principles I have outlined here, you will realize that you don’t need bulging muscles to get the job done, you just need to streamline your body and make it work the the way it is supposed to work. This concept–using the body in the correct manner–is the key to the matter.

The PE courses in school do not tell you how to use your body, they just get you to throw the ball to your friends, they help you socially. When you start to Matrix your body, which is usually through the principle of learning how the muscles are set up, what direction they are supposed to move in, and, most important, how to make them work together, that is when true efficiency begins, That is when you are going to realize that your body is just a tool, and you can hone that instrument as you wish.

The key, of course, whether you are studying Hapkido, Jujitsu, or any other art, is to apply Matrixing to it. Matrixing is nothing more than the process of studying and analyzing motion …physics. And, when you take apart the martial arts moves of people like Bruce Lee or Tonny Jaa, you are going to find that they are absolute students of physics, which is nothing more than rudimentary Matrixing.

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Al Case Fitness aikido, Bruce Lee, Fitness, gung fu, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, karate, kenpo, kung fu, self defense, shaolin, sil lum, tae kwon do, tony jaa