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Fundamental Principles of Martial Disciplines [基本原理の武修行]

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Dai-ichi-genri [第一原理] First principle; Principles of Theory [理論の原則] (Universality, Control, Efficiency, Lengthen Our Line, Percentage Principle, Std of Infinite Measure, Power Paradox, Ratio, Simplicity, Natural Action, Michelangelo Principle, Reciprocity, Opponents as Illusions, Reflexive Action, Training Truth, Imperception and Deception.)

Dai-ni-genri [第二原理] Second principle; Principles of Physiokinetics [物理的な動力学の原理] (Breathing, posture, triangle guard, centerline, primary gate, spinal alignment, axis, minor axis, structure, heaviness, relaxation, wave energy, convergence, centeredness, triangulation point, the dynamic sphere, body-mind, void, centripetal force, centrifugal force, sequential locking and sequential relaxation, peripheral vision, tactile sensitivity, rooting, attack hubs, attack posture, possibly the chemical cocktail, Multiple Methodologies [actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression, etc. are best for stopping a threat]???see below)

Dai-san-genri [第三原理] Third principle; Principles of Technique [技術の原理] (techniques vs. technique, equal rights, compliment, economical motion, active movement, positioning, angling, leading control, complex force, indirect pressure, live energy and dead energy, torsion and pinning, speed, timing, rhythm, balance, reactive control, natural and unnatural motion, weak link, non-telegraphing, extension and penetration, Uke. Multiple Methodologies [actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression, are best for stopping a threat])

Dai-shi-genri [第四原理] Fourth principle; Principles of Philosophy [哲学原理] (Mind [mind-set, mind-state, etc.], mushin, kime, non-intention, yin-yang, oneness, zanshin and being, non-action, character, the empty cup, inner peace.)

Dai-go-genri [第五原理] Fifth principle; Principles of Self-Defense [自己防衛の原則] (“Conflict communications; Emotional Intelligence; Lines/square/circle of SD, Three brains (human, monkey, lizard), JAM/AOJ and five stages, Adrenal stress (stress induced reality based), Violence (Social and Asocial), Pre-Attack indicators, Weapons, Predator process and predator resource, Force levels, Repercussions (medical, legal, civil, personal), Go-NoGo, Win-Loss Ratio, etc. (still working on the core sub-principles for this one)”Attitude, Socio-emotional, Diplomacy, Speed [get-er done fast], Redirected aggression, Dual Time Clocks, Awareness, Initiative, Permission, multiple attack/defense methodologies (i.e., actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression, etc. are best for stopping a threat)

Dai-roku-genri [第六原理] Sixth principle; Principles of Chemical Cocktail [化学カクテルの原則] (Attacked Mind, Train It, Breath It Away, Visualize It Away, Sparring vs. Fighting, Degradation of Technique/skills, Peripheral Vision Loss, Tunnel Vision, Depth Perception Loss/Altered, Auditory Exclusion, Weakened legs/arms, Loss of Extremity Feeling, Loss of Fine Motor Skills, Distorted Memory/perceptions, Tachypsychia (time slows), Freeze, Perception of Slow Motion, Irrelevant Thought Intrusion, Behavioral Looping, Pain Blocked, Male vs. Female Adrenaline Curve, Victim vs. Predator, The Professional, Levels of Hormonal Stimulation, ???)

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THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Chinkuchi Elements (Lengthening the Line)

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• Intention of Zanshin. (Zanshin is a sub-principal of philosophy that manifests through the physical into a methodology useful for self defense; methodology useful for self defense;  a combination of “both awareness and experience”, etc.)
• Perfection of Technique (often related to technique based training models but actually one of the fundamental principles, “Technique,” that addresses all the subprinciples of “techniques vs. technique, equal rights, compliment, economical motion, active movement, positioning, angling, leading control, complex force, indirect pressure, live energy and dead energy, torsion and pinning, speed, timing, rhythm, balance, reactive control, natural and unnatural motion, weak link, non-telegraphing, extension and penetration, Uke. Multiple Methodologies [actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression.”)
• Fluid Movement (This one addresses tersely the sub-principles of the principle, “Physiokinetics, Breathing, posture, triangle guard, centerline, primary gate, spinal alignment, axis, minor axis, structure, heaviness, relaxation, wave energy, convergence, centeredness, triangulation point, the dynamic sphere, body-mind, void, centripetal force, centrifugal force, sequential locking and sequential relaxation, peripheral vision, tactile sensitivity, rooting, attack hubs, attack posture, possibly the chemical cocktail, Multiple Methodologies [actual tactics and attack methodologies of impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression.)
• Speed of Movement (see fluid movement above)
• Power of Movement (see fluid movement above)
• Ki as an essential ingredient (a concept using sound and no sound to provide the mind-state enhancing abilities when coupled with breathing and other physiokinetic principles applied universally in karate and martial arts)
• Proper tensing (Physiokinetics: sequential locking and unlocking; centripetal and centrifugal forces; breathing; alignment, structure, haviness, centeredness; rooting; posture; body-mind; chemical cocktail)
• Proper breathing (Physiokinetic sub-principles)
• Accompanying of technique with mind-control (actually applying mind-set to accomplishing defense goals through application of principles toward manifestation of multiple methodologies, etc.)
• Being loose until the moment of contact (positive relaxation then applying physiokinetic sub-principles to achieve force and power in defense, etc.)
• Allowing your Ki to flow through the movement (Ki as in blood, etc., that make the body work along with proper application of physiokinetics to maximize energy flow to achieve power and force in a single moment for any given situation regardless of technique based applications)
• Exhalation makes the strike stronger (simplistic meme to convey complex actions where breathing coupled with other sub-principles of physiokinetics to achieve force and power in defense)
• Capability to stun your adversary (chinkuchi achieved by proper implementation of physiokinetics)
• Tighten abdominal muscles as you strike (chinkuchi achieved by proper implementation of physiokinetics)
• Kiai (chinkuchi achieved by proper implementation of physiokinetics through mind-state, thoughts and set verbally or non-verbally)
• Mind Control (What is mind-control as it applies to the practice of karate and martial arts? It is simply training the mind with knowledge, understanding and experience to control how we use our bodies to the degree where that movement and the triggers that drive the movement(s) becomes automatic and instinctual bypassing the human thinking brain and allowing the lizard brain to make it work. It is not magic and it is not mystical, it is a matter of hard work, sweat equity, reality based adrenal stress-conditioned exposure and a dedicated continuous endeavor to achieve master, efficiency and proficient application in self-defense.)
• Focused strength and power (chinkuchi achieved by proper implementation of physiokinetics through mind-state, thoughts and set verbally or non-verbally)

These few, no where near complete or comprehensive, provides the practitioner the knowledge to continue research toward a fuller depth and breadth of understanding as to the concept of chinkuchi. 

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THEORY; THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Ratio

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The ratio principle concerns the relationship between “Energy and Effect.” 

Ratio 1: As martial artists we want a positive ration of effort vs. yield, with “effort” referring to the energy we exert in executing a technique (which ultimately should be relatively nothing) and “yield” referring to how much we affect our adversary.

The real goal involves expending less and less effort while achieving greater and greater results. We also want to produce a greater effect through less and less effort. 

Ration 2: The amount of power in a methodology vs. the amount of effect. How that power gets delivered to the target. Despite containing the same amount of overall power, even the amount of inertia, different methodologies will produce different results in the adversary.

As karate-ka and martial artist we actually want more yield than power. Energy can be delivered in different ways. It can produce lesser or greater effects depending on how it is managed. The human body is more susceptible to spiraling energy than straight energy, we can produce a yield greater than power if we use spiraling methods rather than flat ones. 

Ratio 3: How much we move vs. how much we make our adversary move. We want to move less and less while causing our adversary to move more and more. 

Ratio 4: Power is relative to time. The same amount of power delivered in half the time equates to twice as much power. Moving quickly to the target accomplishes little if we spread the impact over a long duration. We must not only focus on the speed at which we reach a target, but also on shortening the length of time it takes to impact the target. 

The same force concentrated into a smaller area results in greater power? Reduce the surface area by half and increase the power by two. Focus our energy on smaller and smaller surface areas. 

Ratio 5: Unfortunately, the distinctions between such applications that apply to ratio 5 prove far to subtle to illustrate in words. They must be experienced to be appreciated and learned.

FINALLY: We don not want just one ratio working in our favor; we want all ratios working in our favor. Every principled based multiple defense methodology should offer a positive effort to yield ration, power to yield ratio, movement to yield ratio, time to yield ratio, and space to yield ratio. 

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THEORY; THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Imperception and deception

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I&D suggests that we execute karate and martial arts most effectively when we do so beyond our adversary’s perception. If an adversary (consciously or unconsciously) does not know what we are doing then the adversary cannot counter. This speaks to the OODA, if we can stick the adversary in the OO bounce and away from the DA then we are successful in I&D. 

The easiest methodology to implement is the one the adversary never sees coming. If they cannot observe they cannot orient and they cannot decide on an action and the cannot act on that action. 

Imperception refers to acting in ways that the adversary cannot perceive or that lock them into a OO bounce. Even if the act is seen but not in the adversary’s ability to comprehend they are still forced to enter the OO phase and possibly bounce around trying to decide what the heck is happening. If the imperception is to hide something or to provide something that the adversary’s mind cannot reason or determine appropriately the goal is still achievable. 

Deception functions by misdirecting the adversary’s mind away from our actions. It can be a feint, i.e., when a social or competitive action is required but often not wise in an attack requiring a self-defense action. Even creating an opening to draw and adversary into committing to an action to take advantage is still outside the parms of self-defense and into either a social conflict or competitive one. This must be studied.

Use I&D along with sound tactics and strategies that incorporate what is necessary for the situation, i.e., social vs. asocial vs. sport vs. fighting vs. combative vs. etc. 

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THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Lengthen our line

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The very premise of a karate and martial discipline must be that we can defeat otherwise superior physical aggression.

Karate and martial arts assumes (1) that people will try to exert control over us and (2) that out methodologies permit us to remain in control despite that fact.

Personal responsibility is critical to karate and martial training. We must examine ourselves for our own deficiencies to understand why the attacker can have any control over us at all. If we were perfect in application of fundamental principles in applying our methodologies then the adversary would not exert control over us. We must look at the limits of our own self - centeredness, posture, structure, anatomy (in other words, principles and methodologies), etc., that permit the adversary control over us. 

It is about the perspective of improving ourselves relative to the attack - lengthening our lines so as to make the adversary’s line “shorter” by contrast. We have to examine ourselves and out principles and methodologies, or more importantly, the principles expressed through methodologies. 

Principled based methodologies should always posses the inherent power to defeat the anticipated attack, no matter how powerful it might be, period. Any principled based methodologies in which we do not find the potential to defeat superior attacks must be questioned. Either we must deepen our understanding of its principles and make it applicable or we must discard it.

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THEORY; THEORY; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Opponents as illusions

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We need not and should not focus on what we do to our adversary but rather on our proficiency in principles (principled based multiple methodologies for defense). Illusions have power if we believe in them. If we give life to the concept of “adversary’s” by worrying about what they might do to us and what we can or cannot do to them then we risk compromising principles in order to produce certain results. Production of certain specified results is the basis for a technique-based training model rather than a principled based one. 

Giving credence to the notion that the adversary holds power actually gives power to the adversary. When I think of this I consider any doubts I might have as they relate to an adversary along with the various repercussions from his attack and those of society in case we violate certain socially driven legalities such as a greater level of force then necessary or even required. One hallmark of karate and martial art training is to achieve a present moment situational view of being attacked where there is no win or loss but just reaching a previous permissible goal, to survive. 

Example: If an adversary grabs our wrist we tend to focus on the wrist but if we apply principles such as “Indirect Pressure” we can move from a location other than our wrist, say the elbow, we can overcome the power the adversary has over us via our focus on the wrist, etc. Note: these principles end up createing an appropriate response derived from the multiple methodologies for defense rather than those driven by a technique based model. 

Believing the adversary has power gives the adversary that power. Our mind-set creating a mind-state is our weakest link especially when we fail to avoid and escape. Once we resort to some physical response our minds, i.e., mind-set and mind-state, must remain outside influences of the ego, the monkey dancing idiot within us all, and reach for our defense goals. Disregarding the adversary, provided we execute/apply principle-based multiple defense methodologies, dispels the illusion of power. As always, proficiency in applying principle-based multiple defense methodologies applies. This is about learning to disregard, or at least stop blaming, our adversary.

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THEORY: MULTIPLE METHODOLOGIES

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I have written a bit on principles and I have also added in multiple methodologies as the goal for applied principles in self-defense. I then got a reminder that there are things not yet told but in need of telling from an article by Marc MacYoung, i.e., on hitting and generating power. There are a few references that spell out how one generates power but also on how to apply that power effectively and efficiently. A couple of those are as follows:

MacYoung, Marc. "In the Name of Self-Defense: What It Costs. When It’s Worth It." Marc MacYoung. 2014.

Miller, Rory Sgt. "Meditations of Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence" YMAA Publishing. 2008.

Then there is the article I have read and find I need to review and reread time and again just like the two sources listed above (Oh, and my bibliography has a few more recommended references as well). 

Marc MacYoung has a web site titled, “No Nonsense Self-Defense,” and an article therein explains a bit more about those multiple methodologies. The one article in reference is, “Generating Power,” and about half way down the article, read the whole thing tho, you have the section titled, “Dr. PITTCo/CoD PITT.” 

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