[I:http://exporubens.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/AlCase22.jpg]Many of the martial arts, like karate are fiction. Slam somebody on the nose with a palm and bone shards will spear into his brain and kill him, except there isn’t any bone in the nose, its all cartilage. And all those old legends, a lot of them are good for washing the hog, if you have a willing hog.

But, there is a certain science that has proven true in the martial arts. This is the science of how to use geometrical energy potentials. I discovered this field while reading a series of books called the Lensmen Series.

I suppose the first time it hit me was when the author, E. E. Smith, described people fighting on the hull of a space ship. They were hooking their feet under hand grips so they would not fly into space from the reverse force of their strikes. They were anchoring themselves so they could apply force, and not be the effect of their own force.

Soon I was totally immersed in a universe where weapons created incredible geometries of force. A death ray created a mattering splattering beam, and it could be deflected by a well built shield. And if a shield could deflect that beam, then another shield used like a disk could slice the first shield apart.

Soon I was enraptured by images of fleets of space ships creating their own particular brand of strategy. Fleets of space ships would form globes around other fleets, and cones of spaceships would swallow globes of fleets. Each time a geometry was described, my mind struggled to keep up with the wash of new concepts.

Then, shock of shocks, fleets of spaceships gave way to mental powers. Those same rods and globes and cones and shields, made real in the extreme of space combat, became the stuff of mind to mind encounters. How do you slide your awareness through the grid of another but alien mentality?

And, ultimately, done with the books, I began extending these outer space alien mind combat strategies to the martial arts. I sank my weight and planted my stance so I would not fly back from my own force. I described cones with my arms, and engulfed globular fists as they flew out of space at me.

When I tell people about what has inspired me they generally think I am a bit crazy, or they realize I am a genius. Reading sci fi for inspiration in the martial arts, who would have thought? Yet, it is all art, and should not art be filled with creativity and expression and beams of force and mind to mind conflicts?

Al Case has taught martial arts for 40+ years. A writer for the magazines, he is the developer of Matrixing Technology. You can find out about Matrixing by getting his free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

Times have gotten insanely unsafe. With the exclusion of the more tame toys of mischief and the inclusion of killing tools. Gang activity is now plaguing our society, completely shunning law and any form of control. Those in desperate situations are taking extreme measures to survive, often ending in fatal mistakes, and civilians have become so lax in their participation that self-defense is nearly a dying species. Both those fortunate in quality of life, and those not quite so blessed, we have all become targets of heinous acts. And truthfully, while bonded to law, we have few options of self-preservation.

Regrettably, one would undoubtedly look foolish, if not suspicious trouncing about town decked out in a full suit of kevlar. Honestly, it is doubtful that it would even be allowed. But there is another solution. There are those out there, companies, that devote their time and resources to the creation of tools of defense, and not of destruction. Tools of protection that provide the everyman with the power to defend against those that seek to tear our society apart. One product of note, is the creation of normal garments, but with a single adaptation. They are bulletproof.

One can now avoid suspicion from peers and local delinquents, all the while completely insulated against an attack! Armored clothing has seen completely new levels of progression, now capable of stopping even high powered rifle ammunition and AP rounds! Not to mention, some of this stuff just looks awesome! What’s better than sporting your new favorite jacket, walking about all cool, and then stopping a bullet to the chest? Like what you already have, and don’t want to reorganize your wardrobe? They also offer fine vests to fit under your button downs, looking like just another clothing accessory, but still offering top notch defense!

The clothing is tailored to your fit and size, eliminating discomfort and poor fits associated with most other products of this type, and keeping your clothing looking fit and neat. The armor plating can be removed from the garment, allowing for less conspicuous feel, if you know your are coming into contact with others much, or you can remove them if an upgrade is needed! The plating comes in a variety of strengths and protection levels, allowing you to tailor the product to your level of need!

You could assume that this type of technology would be extremely expensive, however, this uses pre-existing technology that and is rather affordable even to the average citizen.Take the first step in becoming a safer and more confident individual by taking the time to look into this quickly growing phenomenon!

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Do you take part in airsoft activities? Have you just bought your first airsoft guns and now you want to learn more about this exciting and fun activity. Most airsoft guns have similarities to old fashioned BB guns, but also differences. The main difference being that they appear and look like actual guns and pistols. Therefore any usage or carrying of an airsoft gun requires responsibility and care.

It is not just from a distance that airsoft guns appear real, even when held in your hand they are very lifelike, they may even have a name and model that is close to the real thing. Today’s airsoft guns can often feel the same weight as actual guns and pistols. It is these factors that have made them a popular piece of equipment for people that enjoy military and combat style games and activities. The number of people who take up the pastime is increasing all the time.

There are some collectors who buy up many different models and varieties. Most individuals who buy these items actively take part in special simulations and activities all across the country. If you have not yet visited one such meeting then a good description would be to say they are like paintball games but with more realistic weaponry. Certain people and groups may travel many miles to compete.

As mentioned before, if you own or are planning to own an airsoft weapon then you must behave responsibly at all times. There have been cases were people have got seriously hurt and even killed through irresponsible usage of these replica weapons. If you walk around your hometown with one on display you are likely to be arrested as ordinary citizens will not be able to see the difference between your replica and a real gun. People have gone to jail for waving their airsoft weapon around in public.

Which airsoft gun is best will depend upon your own requirements and a number of other factors. What is good for one person may not be for another. There are people who simply enjoy collecting them and never using them, though most people will buy them to use at specific events.

The price of airsoft guns can vary considerably. The cheapest options can be bought for under $50 whereas the most expensive can cost $1000 or more. Usually the least expensive options are what is known as Springers, these use a spring based firing mechanism. For many people who take part in events and activities it will be the first gun they own.

Gas powered airsoft guns cost slightly more than the spring based forms; they are often semi-automatic or fully automatic, the capacity is not so great and neither is the shooting range.

One of the most modern varieties are what is called automatic electric guns, these are by far the most common airsoft gun that is used in airsoft games. Another choice, and the most expensive, is the airsoft sniper rifle. Such rifles are generally used by experienced players.

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Airsoft guns are normally reproduction of firearms. Airsoft guns can be separated into three units by what power they represent. One of the Airsoft guns with spring powered BB guns, electric powered machine guns, and lastly gas-powered green gas or CO2 Airsoft guns.

Have in mind that Airsoft Guns are handled by the user when the cock is pulled at the spring at shooting sudden before the shot and every time after that. Airsoft guns shoot when the spring is pulled. Bolts and rifles need to be held tight at the time when shooting. By gripping the Airsoft gun this will be accomplished. When no capacity like the automatic pistol and the automatic firearm, these Airsoft guns are not as dangerous as a firearm. When these Airsoft guns are not considered fatal, they are considered to hurt someone with a high speed of up to 500 FPS allowing.

Amazingly, Airsoft guns are tough to find as they are very costly. Being mindful of these pistols being hard to find as well as not lasting for a long time when creating tension at the time of shooting the Airsoft gun.

As being single shot pistols, Airsoft guns have the potential to store energy. Airsoft guns have the capacity of storing energy and therefore permitting to spring to launch the Pellet by cocking the Barrel of the gun. Listen, when the cock is pulled after each shot, this pistol should be used as when shooting a real shotgun or firearm to make this result when shooting.

At this time we understand that Airsoft Guns have been transported into America coming from Japan. The United States has banned any infiltration of weapons coming from any foreign country as established by United States Customs. The only weapon that met the requirements and guidelines would have been the blaze orange (ASTM875) or brighter tip in meeting accordance into the U. S.

Airsoft guns are handled by the user by using the cock in the spring once it has shot and on every shot after that. Originated from Asia, the Airsoft guns where established in Japan as they were discovered by Americans in the 1970’s. When establishing a reality in the fact that Japan people were not allowed possessing any weapons of any kind, the Japanese created this Airsoft gun only for the purpose of leisure.

Some of the latest acquisitions of the Airsoft Gun collections are the Kalashnikov AKS 74 U metal and wood hand guard pistol. Being the latest hot trend and new in the market, the AEG makes a perfect recreational tool to have. Being designed for its durability and its fine metal body, this metal Airsoft rifle makes a great pistol with a gear box. Holding enough BB’s to keep the action going, this gun is one of the hottest trends in the shooting world with its enthusiasm and capability for the advanced level gamers.

Airsoft guns were made and manufactured in Japan by their Japanese people. As the country was in a deep recession, Chinese people took the opportunity and they produced a cheap version and re-created a replica and distributed all over the streets with a cheap edition.

Eliminating the opponents with these Airsoft guns by shooting your opponents with non metallic spherical pellets which use compression as it is shot using either propane, compressed air, manual spring action and/or electrically powered gear.

Let’s consider Airsofting is a sport for those who love shooting. Air soft guns made this possible and it grew across the continent. Making this sport a hobby for those who love guns and may not be able to shoot real firearms, Airsoft guns are not fatal and they shoot pellets which aren’t as dangerous as a real firearm. This gun holds well in extreme weather as well as it makes a recreation of a lifetime.

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On the list of deadly arts Tai Chi Chuan is probably the most overlooked. Oh, people do that for health, or when they are old, or any other number of reasons. Yet, the truth of the matter, after studying a wide variety of arts for over forty years, I’m convinced that Tai Chi has the most potential in a fight.

What most people don’t understand is that Tai Chi , ultimately, is not an art about making the body powerful. It is the space that is the body that is the intent of Tai Chi power. When you pretend you are fighting in slow motion you are feeding awareness into the body, and, eventually, you reach the conclusion that the body is merely a space within the universe.

This leads us to the rather intriguing concept of how do you hit somebody with space? Actually, it is easier to hit with space than with a body, if you aren’t stuck in the notion that the body is a bunch of meat. It is far easier to perceive and move the space of body when you understand that the body is merely a portion of space.

You aren’t trying to move individual muscles to move bones and meat to collide with a body somewhere over there by sending mental messages through a network of nerves. Instead, you are veritably puffing on space with your intention. And, without thinking that you are any of the mechanical pieces, you can move the space of you quickly and efficiently to collide with the space of your attacker.

The fact of the matter is that you are colliding, you don’t strike or hit with Tai Chi. And, when you perceive the body as space you have so many other weapons to choose from that striking is usually not the weapon of choice. Indeed, striking is rarely the weapon of choice of a good Tai Chi-ist.

What is fun is to harmonize your space with the space of another and unbalance it. That is a handy art of tremendous value, and it is, quite honestly, much more fun than bashing the meat of your fist upon the bone of his cranium. The trick is to shift your space so that the incoming missile misses, and adjust the trajectory and relativity of the involved spaces so that no more attacks can be forthcoming.

It is a direction If he draws hand back, and his space retracts, and that space can be wafted away with a puff of intention. It is a direction if he pushes, and his space expands, and that space can be sucked past with a twist and a puff of intention. Indeed, stuck on the plane of two feet, the poor fellow has no possible defense or attack against something which isn’t there.

To strike is a concept that is done through meat and bone. Space, however, doesn’t have any meat and bone to get in the way, so the decisions made of space are ten times faster than decisions made of meat. The really, funny thing about all this is that your body can’t be destroyed when you realize that it is space, for how can you destroy nothing?

I was engaged in teaching a martial arts class, and I had one student whose father liked to go to the bar next door and enjoy himself while his son was getting healthy and strong. After class one day, the father staggered in and pulled out a gun and pointed it at me, and he made the remark that karate isn’t any good if a guy has a gun. I took the pistol from him, held it in my hand, looked at him, and grinned.

Yes, it is possible to take a gun away from somebody, even when they are pointing it directly at your face. I did it, and I will tell you exactly how I did it in this article. That said, and even considering what I am about to tell you in this article, I recommend giving your money to an attacker, not risking your face against volatile discharge.

When somebody points a gun at you, you must consider which way the communication is flowing. The typical scenario is a fellow steps forward and points the gun at you, and he says he will shoot. The intent of the communication is towards you.

Moving slowly so that he sees your total compliance, you put up your hands, and place them in a position that is best for what you are about to do. You should engage in a lot of intensive practice to know what position is best. It is crucially important, in this situation, that you relax your muscles utterly and entirely and make your mind icy calm.

Now, the fellow says to give him your money, and this is the point you have been waiting for. At this point the intent of the communication is towards him, and away from you. At this point he is not intending to shoot because he expects you to move towards him.

The trick behind this exercise, as I said, is to have totally relaxed muscles and an utterly calm mind. Shift your head away from the direction the gun will move in when you hit his wrist and off the line of attack. Using both hands you grab the gun as you slap the inside of his wrist.

Be aware that the gun may go off when you do this, but the gun should have angled so the bullet will miss you. To make this work you must practice the technique, and you must learn how to be relaxed in one position in space, and then virtually instantaneously in another position in space, and then you can actually try different methods of controlling the gun and refining the technique.

Having written the preceding, let me say that the technique won’t work if the fellow is not interested in getting your money, but rather in kidnapping you for purposes of domination, or if he is too far away, or if you just read this article and never practiced it…a few thousand times, I also want to say that the reason I wrote this article is for training purposes, for enlightenment of the individual in a life threatening situation, not to give you the idea that risking your life is more important than money. And, I want to let you know that it is going to be a lot of fun to go point a little laughter in his face when the fellow is caught and goes to trial.

[I:http://exporubens.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/AlCase10.jpg] Trying to eat something that has bigger teeth than you is foolish. I know that when it comes to words of wisdom, this may seem weak, but there is a certain undeniable truth here. Such as when a young student is heard complaining that he is tired.

“Al, I’m too tired to continue.” Observing the youngster I knew that he wasn’t really tired, he was just being a bit childish. The that he had chosen to do so right in the middle of my karate class was, however, a problem.

When my class is interrupted by one of these leaders of future society for such foolishness I always feel peculiarly irked. I am suddenly taken by the desire to pick up that large stick with a nail in it that I keep in the office of my school and…but I don’t. Instead, I relay the story of the tiger, which is quite well known in other societies, but not too well known in our own.

One day two monks were walking through the jungle. One was old and one was young. The younger one said, “I’m tired–can’t we stop?”

Let’s continue just a bit further,” said the older monk. The old monk started walking a little faster. He certainly didn’t want to hear the younger generation complain.

“I can’t. I’m utterly exhausted. I’m stopping,” and the younger monk collapsed on a boulder on the side of the trail and began to fan himself.

“We have to make it to the next temple. Get up now!” The older monk implored the younger man without effect.

“No way I can continue. I’m too exhausted to go on!” Fanning himself, the younger man refused to move.

The older monk, at that point, happened to see a tiger sleeping in the bamboo, and he picked up a rock and threw it at the tiger. The tiger jumped up and roared in rage and chased after the two monks. The monks sprinted down the trail like…well…like a tiger was chasing them.

The monks ran and ran and ran, and finally the tiger slowed down. When they were safely away the younger monk turned to the older monk. “Why’d you throw the rock at that tiger?”

The older monk laughed. “I guess you weren’t really all that tired after all.” The younger monk finally recognizing superior wisdom, began to laugh, too.

A story as this has a good a moral. The monks had only been running for their lives. The tiger, on the other hand, was only running for his dinner.

And here come my words of wisdom. Is every day like a run for your life? Or are you one of these fellows that believes everything has bigger teeth that you?

And the student in my class who started the whole thing by saying he was tired? If he still complains about being tired after I tell him the story about the tiger…I get out the stick. The nail in it is really quite sharp!

Jiu Jitsu is a Japanese martial art including primarily unarmed techniques, but also the use of some weapons. Specifically, it teaches unarmed strategies of combating an opponent who is armed. Like many martial arts, many different forms and styles of jiu-jitsu have evolved over the centuries.

What Sets Jiu Jitsu Apart from Other Martial Arts?

Jiu Jitsu was created by samurai in feudal Japan as a technique to battle other samurai. Punches and kicks were not very effective against armed samurai, so jiu-jitsu developed techniques to quickly immobilize an enemy through pins, throws, and holds. The philosophy of jiu-jitsu was not so much to directly oppose an enemy, but rather to detain him by turning his own energy against him.

Jiu Jitsu, literally translated as “the art of softness” or “way of yielding”, is a “soft” martial art style. “Soft” styles, like jiu-jitsu, prefer yielding to an opponent’s force, using balance and leverage to turn an attacker’s momentum against themselves, rather than opposing force with force. “Hard” martial styles (such as Karate and Kung Fu), in contrast, favor forceful, direct attacks requiring power, speed, and strength.

Different martial arts place their own emphasis on particular types of combat. For instance, Judo focuses on wrestling, while Tae Kwon Do focuses on kicking. In contrast, jiu-jitsu emphasizes grappling.

While “grappling” seems similar to wrestling, it has subtle but important differences. There are a variety of grappling techniques, including joint locks (discussed below), traps, pins, holds, and throws. Other techniques include gauging, choking, strangling, and biting. Some defensive jiu-jitsu techniques including breaking one’s fall, and learning how to disentangle oneself from an enemy’s grasp.

Joint-locks, as the name implies, are a technique that pressures a joint in the opposite direction of the way it is meant to bend. Not only does this immobilize the opponent’s limb to keep it from being used against you, but it also causes more pain the more the enemy struggles. This encourages your opponent to give up. American police officers are taught to use this technique to subdue dangerously aggressive criminals.

What Are the Advantages of Learning Jiu Jitsu?

Jiu Jitsu is an excellent self-defense martial art to learn for several reasons. First, it teaches how to escape an opponent’s attack. Second, you learn how to immobilize an attacker without necessarily hurting them. Third, it teaches as escalation of force.

First, in the case of defending yourself from a mugger or rapist, the more you stay and fight the more likely it is that your assailant will overtake you. It’s fairly common for criminals to travel in groups, or at least pairs, making it even more important for you to escape quickly. Your goal should be to get away and into a public and well-lit area. Muggers know this of course, so their aim is to immobilize you in an area far from others. Jiu Jitsu teaches you to break free from an assailant’s grasp.

Second, if the only fighting you know how to do involves hurting someone quickly and deeply, you could get in big trouble. In barroom brawls, or even if a mugger attacks you, if you seriously injure them or kill them, you’ll almost certainly face a lawsuit. Being able to escape, immobilize, or subdue an opponent without causing them serious harm neatly avoids this problem.

Escalation of force teaches you to only use the amount of force necessary to deal with an opponent. A mugger carrying a knife on the mean streets of New York City is entirely different from Cousin Eddie who’s had a few too many drinks and is stirring up trouble at a family gathering.

Obviously, both issues need to be dealt with. Equally obvious, however, is that you need to use much less force against drunken Cousin Eddie than you would against a mugger. Jiu Jitsu, by teaching how to immobilize an opponent with holds, joint-locks, and pins, allows you to do both. You can pin Cousin Eddie until he calms down while causing him little, if any, harm. On the other hand, if you need to, you can disarm the mugger and throw them to the ground dazed.

Disclaimer

The information in this article is taken from secondary sources and is given in good faith. It should not be regarded as scientific or expert advice in its own right. We recommend you conduct your own research with expert sources prior to engaging or applying any Jiu Jitsu technique mentioned here; we will not be held responsible.