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The Secret of Staying Calm: Strategic Breathing

By Steven Moody July 26, 2012 1 Comment

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba

In a recent post, I talked about the involuntary reactions that can happen when you get a strong dose of fear, causing an “adrenal stress” reaction – a hormone-induced state which causes your heart rate to skyrocket and can be accompanied by all sorts of problems like tunnel vision (you’re looking through a narrow tube), “auditory exclusion” (you can’t hear), up to wetting your pants and blanking out only to find you are running full blast down the street.

What do you do about this?

people in meditative poses

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Filed Under: Fight Science

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace

By Steven Moody July 24, 2012 1 Comment

Fear makes men forget, and skill that cannot fight is useless
Brasidas of Spain

On CombatIn the legendary science fiction novel Dune, the main character Paul Atreides was taught a litany against fear by his mother, who had been trained in a Shaolin-style monastery:

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Fear is literally the mind killer.

Your fight training will very likely prepare you for your encounter with a drunk uncle at the backyard barbecue or the pushy guy at the bus station – for these problems, all you need is confidence and a little technique if they start swinging.

But if you think your training in the dojo or the ring has prepared you for the street you may be surprised.  While your higher brain might be ready and able to fight and win, your body may betray you.

In his book On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace, Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman explains in great detail how the physiology of how fear affects us.

“a quarter of all U.S. soldiers in World War II admitted they had lost control of their bladders, and an eighth of them admitted to defecating in their pants.”

Those are just the ones who admitted it.  Fear is something we must take into account in our martial arts training.

fearful eyes

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Martial Arts Movies: Prodigal Son, Warriors Two, and Wing Chun: TV Series

By Steven Moody July 20, 2012 Leave a Comment

Sammo Hung, , legendary Opera Company brother of Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao, and co-star and choreographer of Ip Man 2, made several movies and a TV series about Wing Chun.

Prodigal Son. Best Wing Chun movie ever.  Until Ip Man.

Warriors 2. Haven’t seen it. Except for this clip.

Wing Chun – the TV series. Loved it.

But skipped through it to dodge the boring parts. On Youtube in its entirety (a little difficult to find it all because they are not all under the same naming convention).

Sammo Hung as Coolest Sifu ever. Except for my Sifus!

The guy at the end of the clip in the scene with the bun (who eventually becomes a villian) is Sammo Hung’s son, Sammy.

Filed Under: Martial Arts Movies

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My goal with this book was to help beginner's get a grasp of Wing Chun and how best to approach it in their training -- and to help everyone benefit from my experience, which has taught me how important mindset is to all fight training -- the book is about forty pages long -- I hope it helps!

Hi. I'm Steve, a professional researcher. I started learning Wing Chun Kung Fu in 2000. Since then, I've trained with some of the best Wing Chun teachers in the world (including Greg LeBlanc and Gary Lam) and done hundreds of hours of research into fight science. This website contains the best of what I've learned. Contact: [email protected]

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