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Welcome loyal readers of Martial Arts Talk. I first started “Martial Arts
Talk” as a weekly columnist for the then ‘San Diego Navy Dispatch.’ I have
an old briefcase of a few hundred columns. Jerome Hagarty was the owner and
his daughter Sarah was the editor. I approached them around 1985 to do a weekly
column. They had been impressed with my credentials both in the martial arts
and in particular, my willingness to consult an array of specialized group
interests. I literally built my career out of love of being with common folk
and sharing in a humanitarian way, how there was something for everyone in the
vast wealth of martial arts knowledge passed down. In 1986 I was a contributing
editor for Karate/Kung-Fu Illustrated and helped to set up the cover for my
former teacher. Wai and Vince were featured in that cover article. Another cover
I helped set up for my former teacher was ‘Ancient Sets of Kung Fu.’ It was Wai
on the cover doing the White Tiger Bench Set. My former student Frank Canziani
took many great photos of Wai and I doing technique applications form the two-person
form. Only select solo form photos of Wai appeared in the article. I have drawers
filled with hundreds of photos, negatives and slides. I appreciate the new technologies
that allow me to scan, enhance, edit to video and other creative technologies of archiving.
Many of you have your own websites. A website like mine is actually a museum in progress.
It allows me to have a silk road like stationary and placement cyber shop. In a world of
future cooperation over competition as the preferred “high road” of the adepts, more and
more will we see leaders with ‘personality.’ A good way to learn to be a manufacturer is
to start by honing your skills teaching in front of a camcorder. Nowadays we all need
them for home surveillance anyhow, and you won’t be able to produce your own DVD’s unless
you include film making into your martial way of life. This includes knowing how to film,
edit and create a DVD master to store on a hard drive server.
With a bit of humor about ourselves we can learn to multitask quite efficiently. Ask yourself
how much of your martial art career you have documented. I have tons of raw footage of me with
most all my home study private students over the decades as well as most all student home/study
test tapes saved. I got my first Radio Shack Model TRS 80 computer with 8 megs of memory in 1982.
The rapid and continued over population of people on the planet made it seem like anarchy was
getting worse, but the true reality is that our technological advancements have had a lot to do
with us never needing to have a World War 3 like I have always said. From Korea on, it has all
been “police” action. The main reason communism and democracy will trade in peace is that combined
as a team, crime would never upset commerce and the providence of progress.
For those of you interested, I will be reading our system’s spiritual foundation from The Urantia
Book. I have already started the project and now have about 35 audio .wma file clips. They average
five to fifteen minutes long and from five to fifteen Megs. in size. Every hundred clips or so will
make a CD that will be available. It should take about 6 gigs or less to complete the project. I will
leave a CD’s worth up for free and retire them for the next CD’s worth and so forth. This will be the
first time in history a martial art system does this to help spread The Fifth Epochal Revelations.
This summer was the first time I went without any air-conditioning – no matter the temperature here
in the hot high desert near the Mexican border in San Diego’s east county unincorporated area. I have
learned to use my martial skills to work with weather changes naturally. To live on acreage and see
sunsets, sunrises, stars and season changes – all keep me humble and awed at the Father’s grand love
and orderly, non-chaotic free will choice to assist us into light and life choices each moment; for
He is within. This is one way we all share the “I am That I am.”
Entertainment Fighting Review
As most of you know, wrestling came naturally to me at five years old, and by
nine I was boxing. I have always watched boxing and wrestling on television
since the 1950’s. I have noticed the WWF turn to WWE and I have seen the TNA,
ECW and “Ultimate Fighter” series try to match the big time money with WWE
being the standard. The WWE makes money because more people watch.
The UFC is matched somewhat in weight more than WWE. I think what makes WWE
successful is personality. The UFC champions in the heavyweight (forget the
lightweights,) in my opinion never survived long careers in WWF or WWE because
of their more rigid personalities that were unable to cope with the big money
egos and talent. The thing with UFC is there is no use of dim mak or iron palm.
It is mind boggling when I see constant punches with no effect 90% of the time.
Another thing about the UFC is the constant chatter of a handful of armchair
coaches screaming tips from the sidelines. That is because there is little
audience. TNA is kind of a spin-off on ECW. ECW still has a day late and a
dollar short ambiance. It is like there is one NFL and there is Arena Football
and ‘others.’ None of this is a put down. All these athletes are great entertainers.
Here is the latest in Heavyweight Boxing. Recently since Mike Tyson’s loses, the
trend is to create giants, since in heavyweight division boxing, there seems no
limit to weight or height. I wrote years ago how the Irishman John L. Sullivan did
it for real – no gloves. Now we have all these nationalities wanting to be the first
of their country to be heavyweight champion. More and more it is about size over
skill. This is because the real skills of Chinese boxing are not being taught.
The Russians want a heavyweight champion so bad, that the guy is almost 7 feet tall
and over 350 pounds. They do this because of lack of skill and knowledge. Let me give
you an example. Let me train Mike Tyson for a mere one year. Here is what the scenario
would be. I would train Mike to be in the center ring before his opponent when the bell
rings. This way he establishes the bully position and makes the dummy move around him.
He would be told to primarily counter punch using the iron claw for a solid grip in the
glove for more damage and an unstoppable punch from rolling the bar. The iron palm would
be there and knowledge of dim mak. Mike would make the taller stronger fighter punch or
look like a sissy. Mike would look at center chest to see all movement and pre-empt all
punches with his own by beating the opponent’s arms until he can’t hold them up. This
would lead to the floating rib – spleen shot to lower the body and slow the head for a
KO head shot. This is the only way for a shorter and weaker opponent to defeat the other
three body types they could face using sound unbeatable real life principles of kung fu
applied to the rules of boxing.
The UFC fighters definitely have a need for the roller bar and grab bag as well. You will
notice UFC never shows dim mak grab strikes. It is all legal entertainment. Once these
lesser-funded groups learn to incorporate real principles, real iron palm and iron claw,
they might be able to handle the bigger/stronger competition and through qigong; the much
more intense mind games that make money for the owners.
I can say from experience that in my opinion real violence as inside a maximum security
prison is as close to ‘real’ as ‘real’ will ever get. There are less rules, less to lose
and infinitely more mentally and physically brutal. Even Rob Van Damm had to leave WWE
because to play the heavy mind games seems to be a hard move to adjust to with these other
less paid entertainers. The next time you watch any so-called fighting entertainment, ask
yourself if your own training has the strategy to beat any human in one to four moves both
for ‘real’ as in life or death and creatively as in the rules of the ‘sport.’
Sooner or later the iron forearm unstoppable punch roller bar and shot filled leather grab
bag will along with real iron palm coconut breaking and established Five Elder fighting
principles that incorporate ginn (ging) and hard earned dim mak knowledge with herbal healing;
make these entertainment venues less boring in the future.
Most all true Grandmasters were of necessity Shamen. If the watchwords are providence, progress
and cooperative trade between democracy and communism, then must we ‘celebrate’ life together
legally and intelligently. It takes a willingness and intelligence to communicate similarities
of cultures. This sometimes includes areas of healing and self-gratification. Personal experience
and ‘personality’ are unique to each of us. Because our leaders are shy, not many will discourse
these issues at martini time after lunch or between popping prescription medications themselves.
These are all ok and good things, but that does not mean we do not need to communicate these
issues. I say it should all ‘start’ with clarity and fiscal ‘union’ on the medical marijuana
issue. Herbs are part of any true internal art. Let us get real and let us participate in democracy.
If two-thirds of you did not like this article, I am doing my job.
I remain humble, do not take myself seriously and stay married to my work – SURVIVAL and The Urantia
Book – all else can be retrieved.
I hope you all had the greatest “Endless Summer,” and look forward to the Fall of 2006 –
The Year of The Fire Dog thus far has been quite progressive!
Sincerely,
Grandmaster James Patrick Lacy
7th Generation Five Elder Monk Mew Hing’s 18 Daoist Palms System of Southern Chinese Kung Fu, since 1988.
www.ironpalm.com
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