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Human Fighting Techniques - Defeating The Tiger By Rick Kirkham
Many martial artists look at animals as the perfect fighting machines, but humans are not on top of the food chain for no reason at all. Let's look at our potential fighting techniques ....
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Human Fighting Techniques - Defeating The Tiger
Many martial artists look at animals as the perfect fighting machines, but humans are not on top of the food chain for no reason at all. Let's look at our potential fighting techniques ....
I run across a lot of people who believe the answer to learning and improving their martial arts and self-defense skills is based on copying the way animals fight. As a kung-fu instructor friend of mine said, our hands will never be as heavy as a tiger's. His art was designed for humans. So why should we try to act like a tiger. Let's use the weapons we have. To answer the next 100 emails my friend's kung-fu style he studied is very old, but the name has been changed so often he didn't really have one. This is quite common among family kung-fu systems as well as I understand.
Let's Examine Human Beings for Combative Purposes
Human beings adapt well to almost all environments
Human beings have four limbs.
They're bipedal so two limbs are always free.
Human beings have opposable thumbs so they can grasp weapons.
They have have a creative mind so dangerous that with the help of free limbs and opposable thumbs they can destroy other human beings with the push of a button.
So Why Do Tigers and Other Animals Fight Better Than Humans
First, who said they do? Oyama defeated a bull by doing some of those movements a bull wasn't designed to do such as side stepping. He also incorporated the use of his free fully rotatable limbs. When many of us have watched the “When Animals Attack” shows how many of these human beings attacked were trained fighters? Are the animals trained fighters? YES! They train young by playing! Watch puppies and kittens playing. They're learning techniques, angles of attack and defenses to those attacks at a very young age. What happens when humans begin training like that? We're told to stop.
“Don't kick, don't punch, don't bite your brother, don't scratch your sister, don't pinch”
What if we did do those things on a regular basis throughout the years? We would learn to use our own weapons. Not only learn to use them, but due to their creative minds humans would remember their lessons and teach them to their young thus giving the next generation a head start. THAT, is the difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom, we don't have to start from scratch every generation!
Conclusion
I once told a man who wished he could be a tiger
“Why? We our Man, and we have accomplished feats a tiger has never dreamed of”
By all means use your creative mind to copy animals and other human beings as well, but if you want to be the Alpha animal, the top of the food chain, be a human.
About The Author
J. Richard Kirkham graduated from Eastern Illinois University as a dual certified teacher. He is the author of Bringing The Martial Artist Out from Within and Step by Step Learning Martial Arts Internal Energy Strikes.
Mr. Kirkhams's also a martial arts instructor with over 30 years experience in martial arts and self-defense and has expertise in alternative teaching methods and positive reinforcement methodology. He currently resides in Honolulu with his wife Jan and son Rylan. Feel free to visit his website at http://KirkhamsEbooks.com or you may email him at help@kirkhamsebooks.com . This material is copyrighted but may be printed and is available upon request in its entirety.
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Many martial artists look at animals as the perfect fighting machines, but humans are not on top of the food chain for no reason at all. Let's look at our potential fighting techniques ....
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Human Fighting Techniques - Defeating The Tiger
Many martial artists look at animals as the perfect fighting machines, but humans are not on top of the food chain for no reason at all. Let's look at our potential fighting techniques ....
I run across a lot of people who believe the answer to learning and improving their martial arts and self-defense skills is based on copying the way animals fight. As a kung-fu instructor friend of mine said, our hands will never be as heavy as a tiger's. His art was designed for humans. So why should we try to act like a tiger. Let's use the weapons we have. To answer the next 100 emails my friend's kung-fu style he studied is very old, but the name has been changed so often he didn't really have one. This is quite common among family kung-fu systems as well as I understand.
Let's Examine Human Beings for Combative Purposes
Human beings adapt well to almost all environments
Human beings have four limbs.
They're bipedal so two limbs are always free.
Human beings have opposable thumbs so they can grasp weapons.
They have have a creative mind so dangerous that with the help of free limbs and opposable thumbs they can destroy other human beings with the push of a button.
So Why Do Tigers and Other Animals Fight Better Than Humans
First, who said they do? Oyama defeated a bull by doing some of those movements a bull wasn't designed to do such as side stepping. He also incorporated the use of his free fully rotatable limbs. When many of us have watched the “When Animals Attack” shows how many of these human beings attacked were trained fighters? Are the animals trained fighters? YES! They train young by playing! Watch puppies and kittens playing. They're learning techniques, angles of attack and defenses to those attacks at a very young age. What happens when humans begin training like that? We're told to stop.
“Don't kick, don't punch, don't bite your brother, don't scratch your sister, don't pinch”
What if we did do those things on a regular basis throughout the years? We would learn to use our own weapons. Not only learn to use them, but due to their creative minds humans would remember their lessons and teach them to their young thus giving the next generation a head start. THAT, is the difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom, we don't have to start from scratch every generation!
Conclusion
I once told a man who wished he could be a tiger
“Why? We our Man, and we have accomplished feats a tiger has never dreamed of”
By all means use your creative mind to copy animals and other human beings as well, but if you want to be the Alpha animal, the top of the food chain, be a human.
About The Author
J. Richard Kirkham graduated from Eastern Illinois University as a dual certified teacher. He is the author of Bringing The Martial Artist Out from Within and Step by Step Learning Martial Arts Internal Energy Strikes.
Mr. Kirkhams's also a martial arts instructor with over 30 years experience in martial arts and self-defense and has expertise in alternative teaching methods and positive reinforcement methodology. He currently resides in Honolulu with his wife Jan and son Rylan. Feel free to visit his website at http://KirkhamsEbooks.com or you may email him at help@kirkhamsebooks.com . This material is copyrighted but may be printed and is available upon request in its entirety.
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