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Learning the Martial Arts Secrets of Asian Fight Clubs
In Asian countries learning the techniques of combat fights is not unusual. Indeed there are some real good legal fight clubs employing martial art as their fighting technique. The history of martial arts shows that the Asian masters were few in number who taught their techniques secretly. Nowadays there are many reputed fight clubs where martial arts like karate, tae kwon do and other styles are practiced and this is quite popular in Asia. In fact they take it as a soothing experience, joining fight clubs that need not necessarily involve bloody fights and events. It's more of like a class.
In fact in fitness centers, martial arts are used in their fight club and they are great, offering something for all ages and all types of people. Mind you, these types of fight clubs are not like the real, mean and avenging fights of the underground world. They use fighting techniques to soothe their mind and body, very similar to the real fight club fighters venting their frustration by beating their opponents to a pulp. Well yes, the members of these sober fight clubs also have competitive fights which sort of boost up their morale, keep them fit and participate in some heavy but healthy exercise.
Well for whatever reason the members enroll in these fight clubs, one thing is for sure that the clubs really get to earn in the enrollment fees especially for the tae kwon do classes. In fact the fight club owners find it a real profitable business as people really want to have a go at it.
Not only this, Asian countries usually have stricter rules like racing and gun control laws, and males find it tough to find ways to amuse themselves and get to bond. As such many turn to fight clubs, fixing certain days as their night out and pounding each other like crazy. Not only in Cambodia, Japan and Korea but Taiwan is also famous for this type of martial art fight clubs. These clubs uses martial arts in their fights and yes, boxing and grappling is also allowed. These are no simple affairs. Especially the art of kung fu, the hard-style, kicking forms and Tae Kwan Do and Twe So involving pushing hands are quite popular.
Fight clubs in Asia is gaining popularity more so because of the interest of foreigners in the martial arts, especially kickboxing and grappling. Fight clubs like Pride, Bushido, K-1, Pancrase, and Rings are becoming popular, embracing the new developments in martial arts, and these shows are one real money making business. One difference noticed in Asian fight clubs is that they take fighting as part of martial arts.
For these fighters, fight club using martial arts offers them the chance to improve their striking skills or look for an opportunity to challenge themselves. They also say that there's a certain bond; getting a split lip or bleeding nose seems to bind them to their opponent for life.
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He's Got the Whole World in His Hands: A Universal Meditation While Creating The Taoist Art of Kamidoro Tama
Kamidoro tama as the universal symbol for Taoism has taken off. Taoism is the universal approach to life. Taoism teaches us to live in harmony with nature. Taoism teaches us to do without doing, to value nothing more than anything else, to appreciate what we have without wanting more. With kamidoro tama, as a physical symbol for Taoism, life, harmony, wu-wei, we put all those teachings into practice.
The Taoist remains humble, low to the ground, which is the genesis of kamidoro tama. While kamidoro tama has its roots deep in the heart of the art of Dorodango, it is fundamentally different. It emerges as a powerful meditation tool, it is supposed to help you reveal and understand the basic Taoist truths.
The kamidoro tama is delicate like the balance of life.
When we begin to make our tama we begin with water. From Tao Te Ching: The Old Man's Guide to the Virtuous Path, Lao-Tzu says this in verse 41:
Nothing is softer,
More yielding than water.
But is has no equal
In wearing down hard things.
If everyone knows that soft overcomes hard,
That yielding overcomes force,
Then why don't they do it?
We fill our bowl with water and we contemplate the properties of water. Lao-Tzu also says in verse 52:
Goodness is like water.
It benefits ten thousand things.
It fills the voids without working.
It always moves to the lowest place.
And as such is like Tao.
Tao is like water. It is good. It benefits everything, it fills the voids without working, and it moves to the lowest place. We contemplate the power of water.
We contemplate our bowl. Lao-tzu says in verses 55 and 72:
A pot is made from clay,
But it is useful because of the hole.
and
Raw materials form the vessels,
Tao forms the void.
Our bowls are useful because of the void. The void is formed because of Tao and we fill this vessel with living water; Tao. This bowl represents our bodies.
We add the toilet paper and let it dissolve into pulp and we contemplate our return to the uncarved state; our primordial beginnings. The pulp, like the uncarved block, is full of potential; harboring the untapped power of Tao, can be formed into anything. In kamidoro tama we choose to form it into the shape of a sphere. Lao-Tzu says from verse 4:
"True beauty offends the eye.
"Virtues are vices. Truth: imaginary."
It is hard to make:
The corners of a square,
The void of a vessel,
The music you don't hear,
The image you don't see.
Tao is hidden to us
And has no name.
Yet, Tao alone is the source of everything
We contemplate the sphere; as we squeeze the water out, shaping the primordial pulp into a denseness with space inside and out; still clinging to some amount of water, we recognize how Tao has shaped us and filled the spaces of our lives.
As we begin the long process of building the outer shell with the softest mineral on the planet, we recall the Lao-Tzu's words from verse 27:
Big trees begin as tiny seeds.
Big buildings begin as tiny heaps.
Big journeys begin as tiny steps.
In the end we can hold in our hand a ball, hard and shiny, yet delicate as life, that we have created from primordial nothingness that is the universal symbol for Taoism and for life itself.
About the Author
Mr. Young is a nationally certified activity director working at his local nursing home. He is currently working towards improving his state's education requirements for becoming a certified activity director. He has completed his master's level advanced coursework for his ACC certification.
He is an ordained minister and holds a MetD degree in metaphysics.
He consults with other nursing homes about how to meet spiritual needs and improve their activity programing.
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