Traditional Martial Arts Health Benifits
Ancient arts created by the masters to improve our health and lifestyle
There are lots of debates held on online forums about what the best martial art is for fighting but really the fighting aspect of Martial art is only a byproduct. The Ancients created martial arts for the betterment of the body, soul and spirit. They created the forms to help students reach abilities of visualization and learn to apply their techniques without fear or brutality. Martial arts are far more than just fighting and they branch out into other areas such as medicine and Nutrition.
When you look up Martial arts online nowadays, the first things that pop up are not really indicative of what true ancient martial art is truly about.
Most of the time you find videos where people try really hard to make a point of telling others how the martial art they practice is the best and how their master has no rival and can beat any other master in a fight.
When the ancients created martial arts they came from a place of absolute calm, peace and they were intended to help people learn about spirituality, medicin, good nutritional habits and how to live a long and meaningful life.
Wars do happen and therefore Martial arts also have brutal technics that can be used in combat to kill, maime or defend thy self in battle but it feels that in our modern society people only care about this violent aspect of the arts.
People who have trained in the Ancient Martial arts since youth within the Asian community have learned to respect and honor the more important aspects of Martial art that embody the true essence, beauty of the forms and phylosofical aspects of their spirituality.
A true Ancient Martial artist is first and foremost an honorable person, with true character and discipline and is not to be associated in any way to what you see on those reality TV shows that only display acts of brutality where the true essence of Ancient Martial art is completely lost.
The Ancient Martial arts know no age and in fact the older you become the stronger and more knoledgeble you are in your fighting strategy, eithics, understanding of nutrition, spirituality and ability to use Verbal Judo before entering into actual combat which is only to be used in case of emergency or during controlled sparring to allow for your techniques to be more than just theoretical.
On reality TV shows you are only able to observe low level and mid level Ancient Martial art techniques.The reason for this is that high level Ancient Martial art techniques are far too dangerous to be used in any ring type sparring match and require the individuals to fight without the use of gloves or leg armor.
In fact the use of gloves and leg armor greatly cripples the ability of a true Ancient Master to express high level Chi flow techniques and also would make those TV shows unprofitable because your real average fight between two indivuals would only last a few seconds.
If you were to allow an Ancient Martial Arts master to fight against one of those reality TV individuals without armor the fight would be over so fast and it would end in serious injuries.
The Ancient Arts are deadly and therefor the highest levels of techniques are only taught to students who have mastered the skills of Discipline, Integrity, self control etc...No Ancient master in their right mind would teach someone the highest forms of spirit punching, kicking or reflex training at the highest level unless they have proven their true worth.
It is also true that most people find it extremely difficult to wrap their mind around the highest forms of Ancient Martial arts training and therefore lots of people are not able to learn those techniques.That is why when you watch youtube videos you only tend to see low level slap, kicks, punches and palm strikes, or mid level push, kicks, punches or palm strikes.It is rare to see anyone do a reflex punch, kick or palm strike and that is also for good reason as those attacks can do damage to opponents that only another experienced Chi master can undo.
The famous Dim Mac attacks are an example of this.Most tough strong fighters are capable of blocking a push punch by using their abs but if you send a reflex punch infused with Chi into someone's abdomen the way it was taught by the Ancient Masters to human can survive that.
Luckily only a hand full of Ancient Masters still know how to use the high level techniques and they are very cautions in passing on these techniques only to those who are truly worthy.
It is a true pity that in our modern society so few people really know and understand what Martial Arts are truly about and practice them with the right mind frame.
In many cases people believe that the true arts will eventually disappear as the new generations only seem interested in things they can learn or aquire in the least amount of time possible and that yield the highest benifits to them.
With this kind of modern mentality it is no wonder that the Arts in general have become a real joke.Modern art seems to have become all about, provocation, sexualization and only seems to serve the purpose of shocking the audience rather then appealing to the beauty of their spirit.